A Room of One's Own
In 1966, following the recognition of Lucy Cavendish as an Approved Collegiate Society, it welcomed its first resident student, Peggy Seay. She had arrived from the United States to study for a Ph.D in number theory. In the photograph to the left she is outside the entrance to Nos. 16 to 18 Northampton Street, premises that the Society leased until 1976.
Northampton Street was an improvement on the ‘rather horrid little room’ in Silver Street that had been the college’s first home, even if there was no dining hall.
Although few records survive of those early days, three polaroid photographs from the Lucy Cavendish archive give a flavour of this early accommodation (one of these is depicted to the left).
In the exhibition, we have captured the spirit of the times in an imagined recreation of a typical college room from this era.
Northampton Street was an improvement on the ‘rather horrid little room’ in Silver Street that had been the college’s first home, even if there was no dining hall.
Although few records survive of those early days, three polaroid photographs from the Lucy Cavendish archive give a flavour of this early accommodation (one of these is depicted to the left).
In the exhibition, we have captured the spirit of the times in an imagined recreation of a typical college room from this era.
