Dr Sam Leggett reveals that Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian
…a Lack of (Isotopic) Enrichment’; Anglo-Saxon England (2022). DOI: 10.1017/S0263675122000072 Leggett & T Lambert, ‘Food and Power in Early Medieval England: Rethinking Feorm’, Anglo-Saxon England (2022). DOI: 10.1017/S0263675122000084 …
Sarah Breeden appointed Deputy Bank of England Governor
Sarah Breeden (NC 1987) has been appointed deputy governor at the Bank of England. The Newnham Associate and finance expert, who studied Economics at Newnham, has worked at the Bank…
Honorary Fellows
…Fiona is Chair of the National Audit Office, Chair of Governors of the Royal Agricultural University, the International National Trusts Organisation, and the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England. She is…
Pudding Seminar with Samantha Leggett (MCR)
…in 7th century Anglo-Saxon England. Themes of this research include changes in burial practice, diet, mobility and Christianisation. It aims to compare a wide geographical sample from across England and…
Newnham student named ‘most committed’ in Sports England awards
…this month. As a sportswoman on Sport England’s Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS), Sarah’s has balanced her training schedule with her PhD research which investigated the genetic causes and cellular…
Biographies
…in England. Her Ph.D thesis, finished in 1944, was modestly entitled `Some Multiplication Problems’ and contained 44 theorems, 21 lemmas and numerous graphs meticulously coloured in red and black. The…
Dorothy Garrod Building Life Stories
…as head of the Association of British Insurers. I’m now an independent director on boards that have ranged from the Bank of England and Barclays to an American oil driller…
Past Seminars
…working-class women’s work in early 20th-Century England’ 15 February: Isabel Hernandez-Gil-Crespo (JCR), ‘Losing our ‘Pagan Innocence: Female Objectification through the Lens of Dance’ 22 February: Bao Nguyen Nguyen Thi (PhD),…
Newly-discovered photograph highlights the role of Indian suffragists – Newnham’s Dr Susila Bonnerjee (NC 1891)
…up a medical practice. Susie returned to England, and took up research and teaching work in Cambridge. She was Demonstrator of Physiology in the Balfour Laboratory from 1910-12, teaching a…
A-Z Student Handbook 2023-24
Arrival and Parking If for a particular reason you need to come up early you must get permission from the Tutorial and Academic Office. Please email: tutorial.office@newn.cam.ac.uk Please go to…