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Press cuttings chiefly relating to New Hall’s buildings, single-sex status, fundraising, and the art collection, 1998 - 2005

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Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHRF 2/1/1/12

Scope and Contents

File contains:
‘The question of sex that must not bankrupt my Cambridge college’, by Anne Lonsdale in the Mail on Sunday 20 September 1998 (re fundraising and remaining single sex);
‘College head mixed up about single sex status’ - letter to a paper from Nick Biskinis of Fitzwilliam College [1998];
‘Dome repairs to cost £5 million’, Cambridge Weekly News 23 September 1998;
‘New Hall makes revenge attack on Paxman’, re University Challenge programme on which Lydia Wilson challenged Jeremy Paxman’s questioning, the Telegraph 29 September 1999;
‘Filthy Flasher’, Varsity 15 February 2002;
Letters to Varsity, including one from Beth Longcroft of New Hall, in response to an earlier article re women’s colleges, c. 2002?;
‘The Ghetto Superstars: Wish you were there?’ - Varsity 25 October 2002 re equal access, including the issue of women’s colleges, together with letters from various students, including Alex Auden, New Hall JCR President;
Profile of New Hall conference facilities in ‘Anglia Industry & Business’, Jan / Feb 2003;
‘The Best in Cambridge: College Pets’, including Helen Curry on the New Hall cat, and ’69 Hammond House Girls’ on ‘Tori the Hammond House pet’, Varsity February 2003;
‘Can Women’s colleges survive?’ (part of article missing?) by Anne Lonsdale in ? Varsity 21 November 2003, including very brief history / timeline of women’s colleges in Cambridge;
‘New Hall usher in the men?’, re JCR proposals for going mixed, the Cambridge Student 12 February 2004;
‘New Life for New Hall’, re RH Partnership repairs to the Library and Dome, Cambridge Agenda March 2004;
‘50th anniversary ball’, illustrated with colour photographs, Pride Magazine June 2004;
Obituaries for Dame Rosemary Murray 2004;
2 cuttings re the award to Anne Lonsdale of the CBE 2004;
‘DNA researcher becomes a Dame’, re Prof Jean Thomas, Cambridge Weekly News 5 January 2005;
‘New Hall celebrates’, re fundraising evening in London sponsored by BP and addressed by Dr Madeleine Albright, ? Varsity 11 March 2005;
‘New Hall censors painting for US troops’ and ‘Artistic discretion’ in Varsity June 2005 re covering up of Maggi Hambling’s ‘Gulf Women Prepare for War’ at the request of a guest booking by the US military;
‘Great art in the canteen’, re New Hall Women’s Art Collection, by Hilary Wilce in the Independent 28 June 2005;
‘Meet the Master’ - feature from ? Varsity re Anne Lonsdale, October 2005.



















Dates

  • Creation: 1998 - 2005

Extent

1 file(s) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

File compiled from cuttings found in general files kept by Christopher Stevenson, former Bursar.

Originator(s)

Various

Finding aid date

2012-11-23 09:35:41+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Murray Edwards College (New Hall Archive) Repository

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