UNITED KINGDOM: Oxford University and Cambridge
"Your description of Oxford in the thirties sounds rather advanced
to me. In the late forties, when I was at Cambridge, there were women
studying but they were not members of the University. Instead of being
obliged to wear gowns at night, or in the library, they were forbidden to
wear gowns. Women were admitted to membership of the University and to
degrees while I was there, about the same time as Britain forsook India."
My comment: In the Civil War, Cambridge supported Cromwell's Roundheads,
while the King held court in Oxford. How did women's rights compare in the
two systems? What did that great trumpeter of freedom, Milton, say about
women's lib? I plead ignorance. Can anyone enlighten me?
Ronald Hilton - 7/24/00
Ron Bracewell recalls the good old times at Cambridge:
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