Residents of Newnham and members of Hughes Hall – the University of Cambridge’s oldest graduate college – will gather for a special street party this Saturday at midday.
Residents of Newnham and members of Hughes Hall – the University of Cambridge’s oldest graduate college – will gather for a special street party this Saturday at midday.
The college’s original buildings – numbers one and three Merton Street – will also be marked with a blue plaque, with the current owners, Hughes Hall President Sarah Squire and those from the surrounding neighbourhood gathering to commemorate the founding of the college.
Hughes Hall began in 1885 as the Cambridge Training College for Women.
It started with a small number of students (14) but with grand ambitions: to produce highly trained teachers who would go out into the emerging girls schools of Britain to educate a new generation of women.
The college flourished, moving in 1895 to its present site overlooking Fenner’s cricket ground. Renamed Hughes Hall in honour of Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, the college’s first Principal, it is now a full postgraduate college of the University for women and men.
Each year it still welcomes a core group of bright postgraduates whose eyes are set on the teaching profession.
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