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Cambridge, England
Joined April 2009
We're excited to announce the launch of Girton Jazz 🎷 This dynamic programme will see Girton welcome leading UK jazz musicians for concerts + more!. Our first concert with the extraordinary jazz vocalist Natalie Williams is on 1 November. Book tickets ➡️
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We are pleased to announce that Dr Elisabeth Kendall has been elected as the 20th Mistress of Girton College, with effect from 1 October 2022. She will succeed Professor Susan J Smith, who will be retiring after 13 outstanding years. Read more here➡️:
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Our statement on 2020 Admissions:
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🏳️🌈Flying the rainbow flag for the start of #lgbthistorymonth! #lgbthm19 #girton150 #cambridge @Cambridge_Uni
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A lovely view out of the Stanley Library stained glass windows this morning
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We are absolutely thrilled for former Mistress of #GirtonCollege, @Cambridge_Uni, Professor Susan J Smith @sjs_1869, who will become the thirty-second President of the @BritishAcademy_ in July 2025. Read more here:.
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We are delighted to be among the first @Cambridge_Uni Colleges to welcome Cambridge Foundation Year students – a new programme offering talented students from backgrounds of educational & social disadvantage a new route to undergraduate study. Read more:
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A winter wonderland ❄️☃️🎄. 📸 Photographs by Tessa Doubleday, Schools Liaison Officer
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🕯️In Memoriam Giulio Regeni 1988-2016. Today we are pausing to mark the anniversary of Giulio Regeni’s death.
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Congratulations to our new Girton graduates; a magnificent achievement and a grand day out.
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❄️🌨 A little dusting of snow this morning
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We are celebrating the first day of @LGBTHM by flying the flag! 🏳️🌈#universityofcambridge #LGBTHistoryMonth #lgbthm
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We are thrilled to formally announce the election of award-winning pianist, composer, and writer, Sir Stephen Hough, as an Honorary Fellow of #GirtonCollege, @Cambridge_Uni!. Watch the in-conversation with the Mistress @Dr_E_Kendall ⬇️:
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A little frosty out this morning ❄️
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A huge congratulations to all the Girtonians graduating today 🎉 @Cambridge_Uni. We're so proud of all your hard work and can't wait to see what you do next 💚
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🎉👑 Congratulations to Honorary Fellow @ErrollynWallen who has made history by becoming the first black woman to be appointed Master of the King’s Music by King Charles III! 🎶
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Today marks the retirement of Girton’s popular Deputy Head Porter Mr Brian Buncombe. The Mistress thanked him for 13 years of first rate service; another day we’ll all join the party!
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👋 A huge welcome to our 150 Freshers at #GirtonCollege, @Cambridge_Uni! Coincidentally, this year also marks 150 years since the UK's first women's college (that was us) moved from Hitchin to the beautiful grounds we enjoy today
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Girton is sad to share the news that our much-loved College cat, Buster, passed away on Friday. Buster has been with the College for 12+ years and will be fondly remembered.
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🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Flying the Progress Flag for LGBT+ History Month . We are still flying the flag to raise awareness and support for our diverse LGBT+ community!. #LGBTHM22 #lgbtHistoryMonth #progressflag #lgbthistory
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We are thrilled to announce the election of musician and composer @ErrollynWallen as an Honorary Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. 📽️ Errollyn in conversation with the Mistress, @Dr_E_Kendall will be out in due course!
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Congratulations to our Fellow Rev'd Dr @charliebelllive, who has been elected to the General Synod of the @churchofengland!. Charlie is a psychiatrist and a priest in the Diocese of Southwark. Learn about his latest book 'Queer Redemption' @dlt_books ⤵️
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News: Installation of the Mistress – Dr Elisabeth Kendall. Read more online➡️:. @Dr_E_Kendall
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Good morning! ☀️❄️. A view from Tower Drive looking out towards Girton College Chapel
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🕯️The plaque in memory of Giulio Regeni is now mounted and the College flag is flying at half-mast. We shall light a candle in his honour in Chapel today.
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🌈 A lovely #rainbow over the dining hall this afternoon. Thanks to our Painter and Decorator, Wayne Ardley, for the great photo 📸
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A beautiful sunrise this morning! 🌅
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🕯️ Remembering Giulio Regeni (1988-2016).
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It’s a little frosty this morning ☀️
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College Visitor and #Girtonalumna Lady Hale (1963 Law) visited her old student room and met current #GirtonStudent Maisie Muir (2017 Mathematics). Read about their Yorkshire roots & the challenges of being outnumbered - @Cambridge_Uni 'My Room, Your Room'
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Our famous 🇬🇧 sense of humour runs deep! Dr James Wade, Fellow of #GirtonCollege @Cambridge_Uni, has discovered rare gems of medieval comedy in the Heege manuscript. His remarkable research has been picked up by c.600 media outlets worldwide! Read more⬇️.
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Today marks the foundation of #GirtonCollege @Cambridge_Uni. #Didyouknow we were the UK’s first residential institution offering university-level education for women?. 📸 The first five students arrived in Hitchin in Michaelmas 1869 - true pioneers! (archive ref: GCPH 7/2/1/1)
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🎂🍰It’s our 1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣th birthday! Celebrating 150 years of pioneering higher education @Cambridge_Uni ! 🎉🎈#Girton150. Read more here➡️:
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💚We are proud to be marking 150 years since we welcomed the first students to the Girton site!.⬇️ See our online exhibition which looks at why we moved, the masterplan, garnering support, and the achievements of just a few of our early residents.
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News: Girton College Announces the Appointment of New Chaplain. We are delighted to welcome Revd Dr Tim Boniface as Chaplain and Bye-Fellow from 1 September 2020. Read more here:
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News: 1908 Cambridge Alumnae Suffrage Banner. We are delighted that an exact replica of the suffrage banner carried by #Girton & @Newnham_College alumnae in the 1908 National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies’ procession is now on display in the Girton College Library.
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With collegiate Cambridge, Girton grieves for those lost and injured in the London Bridge attacks, and for their families, friends and colleagues
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As Lady Hale is trending on #twitter. did you know that she is our College Visitor and a #girtonalumna. She also recently spoke at one of our special #Girton150 Founders' Memorial Lecture series, you watch it back here ➡️:
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🎓 Congratulations to everyone who graduated today! 🎉 Your hard work and dedication have paid off, and we are so proud of you!. Here are a few snapshots from the day! 📸✨. We can't wait to see what you do next 💚 . @Cambridge_uni #graduation
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News: Professor Toni Williams elected as Senior Tutor of Girton College. Read more online ➡️:
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👀 Sneak peek at our new sensory garden near Ash Court 🪻🌱🦋 🌼
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Did you know. Lady Arden, Justice of The #SupremeCourt is also a #GirtonAlumna and one our Honorary Fellows. #GirtonFellows #Law
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Here’s our Vice Mistress and expert in international law, Karen Lee, with a reminder at the start of a challenging new term, that - for the avoidance of doubt - #WeAreGirton
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On #IWD2023, The Mistress @Dr_E_Kendall asks #GirtonCollege alumna @KarenPierceUK,🇬🇧Ambassador to 🇺🇸, about how her education inspired her, the importance of #women in public life, and her messages for young women struggling to make their voices heard. @UKinUSA @Cambridge_Uni
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🎹It's here! The College's new @SteinwayHallUK piano has arrived in the Stanley Library. 💚 Thank you again to Irene Wainwright-Snatt (1940) for making this possible. #GiftsInWills #music
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🎹Event: Friday 24 February, 6:30pm. Turkish pianist Gülsin Oney will be performing a charity recital featuring music by Haydn, Mozart, Saygun & Chopin to raise funds for @UNICEF following the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria. 🎟️Open to all. Info➡️
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#OTD Feminist, suffragist & co-founder of @GirtonCollege Emily Davies was born. Her campaign for women's education was cheered throughout our 150th celebrations. To mark ED's b-day here are 5 anniversary cakes representing the 1st pioneering students to enter the College in 1869!
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Celebrating #Caturday with a cuppa the Senior Tutor sends best wishes to all our students at the start of a new term, remembering that wherever you may be, together #WeAreGirton
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In memoriam Giulio Regeni 1988-2016
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🔵 We are delighted that #Girtonian Joan Robinson, one of the most important economists of the 20th century, is being recognised with a #BluePlaque at 44 Kensington Park Gardens in Notting Hill, London!. @cambridge_uni, @CamEcon. Read more via @BBCNews ⬇️
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#FunFact: Today (27 March) marks the anniversary of @cambridge_uni admitting women to full membership in 1948!. 📷: ‘Seeing G Pretty off to Tripos (Classics)' taken by an unknown photographer, c.1918, from Nelly Margaret Scott’s photo album (archive reference: GCPH 10/8/49).
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🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Girton recognises LGBT+ History Month by flying the Pride (and soon the Progress) flag everyday to raise awareness and support our diverse LGBTQ+ community. #lgbthistorymonth #lgbtq🌈
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News: Swirles Court, Girton College–The Official Opening. Read more here: @Cambridge_Uni @NWCambridge @RHPartnership
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Gifts in Wills are vital for the future of Girton. One recent gift from Rosalie Crawford (Law, 1949) will nearly double the number of Postgraduate Scholarships on offer, greatly enriching the College's academic life.
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🎉 What a wonderful day of end of studies celebrations, congratulations finalists! . #WeAreGirton 💚@Cambridge_Uni. 📷 Here are a few moments, more content to follow!
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What's it like to select a #Steinway🎹? Dr Martin Ennis, Music Fellow at #GirtonCollege @Cambridge_Uni, travelled to Hamburg to play, listen & choose one. Thanks to a wonderful bequest from Irene Wainwright-Snatt (1940), the piano is on its way for our talented students to enjoy!
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The College Orchard in the lovely afternoon sunshine ☀️🍏🍎
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🎉 🏆 Congratulations to #girtoncollege student Hannah Murphy (cox) and the @CUBCsquad women’s crew! . #TheBoatRace2024 @Cambridge_Uni.
The Cambridge Women have won the 78th Women’s Gemini Boat Race by a margin of seven boat lengths. #TheBoatRace2024.@gemini @CUBCsquad @Cambridge_Uni
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🎉 Congratulations to #girtonstudent Sophie Paine and the women’s crew @CUBCsquad 👏🚣♀️.
Cambridge have won the 2021 Women’s Boat Race! 👏👏👏 . Four in a row - and on home turf!. 💻 Watch the Boat Race on @BBCOne & @BBCiPlayer ⤵️ .#bbcboatrace #boatrace2021.
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The Mistress @GirtonMistress addressing students, staff and Fellows at the celebratory lunch #Girton150
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🙌 It's International Women in Engineering Day!. The Mistress, @Dr_E_Kendall, and #GirtonStudent Eeshta Suresh discuss why it's important for women and girls to enter Engineering👩💻. Watch the full video here:.#INWED23 #WomenInEngineering @INWED1919
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Yesterday, our Fellow The Revd Dr @charliebelllive was on @bbcsml and @BBCRadio4 discussing ongoing division within the Church of England around services for same-sex couples. Watch from 34:28 ➡️ Listen from 31:36 ➡️
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The Theory of the Leisure Class reshapes our view of society, highlighting conspicuous consumption and social status. Tune in to @BBCRadio4's In Our Time to hear former Fellows, Dr Mary Wrenn @monkeco & Prof @WilliamWaller3, discuss Veblen's seminal work.
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Good morning ☀️. 📸 Location: Emily Davies Court
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I can't lie: @GirtonCollege has the nicest, smartest, cheeriest and all-round BEST porters! #CambridgeUniversity
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It’s exam time at #GirtonCollege, @Cambridge_Uni! We can’t offer our students the same extravagant send-off 🐎👋 to the Exam Halls as they received back in circa 1916, but we do wish GOOD LUCK to all! 🤞. 📷 Archive reference: GCPH 10/8/10pt
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A warm welcome to our Postgraduate 2024 cohort! 👋💚. More photos ⤵️.
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As we are unable to cheer on our crews at Lent Bumps this year, a Girtonian and her family have been busy recreating the Bumps course, and boating action, at home. We bring you, therefore, the LegRow Lent Bumps!🚣♀️
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#GirtonFellow Dorothy Thompson talks to @BBCLookEast about Hermione, the Egyptian mummy, which is on permanent display in our College museum called The Lawrence Room (open to visitors on Thursdays, 2-4pm). Read more here:
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Girton is flying the flag in support of International Transgender Day of Visibility 🏳️⚧️ . Find out more: #transgenderdayofvisibility #transdayofvisibility . @GirtonMistress @McrGirton
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🎉🎓 It's graduation day! Congratulations to all those who had their MA degrees conferred at today's Congregation.
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News: Au Revoir, Revd Dr Malcolm Guite . Read more here ➡️:
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📚Delve deep into the mind of the 70s and discover the secret history of what we now call wellness in #GirtonFellow, Dr James Riley's new book, #WellBeings out now!. Order here: Full video➡️ @EndOfSixties @iconbooks @englishunicam
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To celebrate #IWD2024 The Mistress @Dr_E_Kendall provides her 6 top tips on "How to break the glass ceiling"!. Article written by #Girtonian @JJhamilton (1989 SPS). Read more on @thetimes: #InspireInclusion @Cambridge_Uni.
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We are so proud to see our Life Fellow Mrs Cherry Hopkins OBE honoured in the Eminent Scholars Archive 👏. Did you know that at the time of her matriculation, Cherry was one of only two women reading Law at @Cambridge_Uni?.
📢We're delighted to be sharing a new entry in the Eminent Scholars Archive, featuring Mrs Cherry Hopkins OBE, Life Fellow of @GirtonCollege, featuring three interviews where she reflects on her life and career:. 🔗 #ESA #WomenInLaw #EminentScholars
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The Mistress, @Dr_E_Kendall, was thrilled to meet Girtonians living in Singapore at a fantastic event last Saturday. It was a great opportunity to hear from alumni & to share with them news from the College. We are grateful to Karen Fawcett (1982) for hosting this gathering.
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News: To mark our 150th anniversary we are pleased to announce 5 outstanding Honorary Fellows: HIH Princess Hisako Takamado of Japan, Professor Dame Pratibha Gai, @sanditoksvig, Dr Suzy Lishman @ilovepathology & Dame @KarenPierceUN. Read more: #Girton150
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Following the sad news of the death of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Girton joins the collegiate @Cambridge_Uni in paying tribute to his life & achievements, and in sending condolences to Her Majesty The Queen & the Royal Family.
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Job Vacancy: Mistress of Girton College. Pioneering. Progressive. Fearless. Building upon our commitment to equality, sustainability and excellence, we now seek a new Mistress for September 2022, to lead the College forward. For more information visit:
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👏 congratulations to #girtonfellow @thomroulet !.
University Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory and Deputy Director of the MBA programme, @thomroulet has been honoured with a Teaching Prize for his teaching on the @CambridgeMBA. Thomas is Lab Director of the recently announced @KingsELab and a Fellow of @GirtonCollege.
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