Cambridge University Library is providing a range of limited services that enable current staff and students at the University (including our NHS partners) to access the Library collections as we move forward from the COVID-19 closure. We are now able to open some library space for these readers to access Special...

The impact of women at Cambridge is incalculable. In 1869, Girton College became the first women’s college at Cambridge, and the first in Britain, to offer residential higher education for women. But Cambridge University did not grant degrees to women until the late 1940s, the last British University to do so. In this...