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The article discusses the role that World War I played in the development of the women-only Somerville College in Oxford, England, including in regard to its role as a military hospital for World War I casualties. An overview of the women students at Somerville College, including the future author Vera Brittain, is provided.

The article offers information on several conferences, exhibitions, and lectures including the Dynasty and Dynasticism 1400-1700 lecture at Somerville College, University of Oxford in Oxford from March 16-18, 2016, the Urban Visual Culture(s): Productions and Perceptions of the Visual in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities conference at Durham University from June 22-23, 2016, and the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2016 at Institute for Medieval Studies in Leeds from July 4-7.

An interview with author Susan Cooper is presented. She discusses studying English language and literature at Somerville College, her interest in authors such as John Masefield, E. Nesbit, and Arthur Ransome as a child, and her relationship with editor Margaret McElderry. Cooper also discusses receiving the 2012 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement.

The article presents information on Mary Fairfax Somerville, who was the first woman to present her research to the Royal Society in 1826. Born in Jedburgh, Scotland, in 1780, she was the daughter of a naval officer. Her first experience with formal schooling came at age 10, when her father declared she needed to learn arithmetic to keep household accounts. She studied at the Somerville College, Oxford, England. She got married with Samuel Greigat at the age of 24. She died at the age of 92.

The article offers information about Somerville College, in Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1879 as the second of the female colleges in the country. Organist Albert Schweitzer visited the college and offered his services as an organ consultant. The college maintains its religious flexibility by not following the usual Oxbridge pattern of Anglican evensongs.

The article presents an obituary Somerville vice-principal and senior research fellow, Philippa Ruth Foot (1920-2010).

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN once said that in philosophy, it is hard to work as slowly as you should. When the British philosopher Philippa Foot finally published ''Natural Goodness,'' her first and only book-length statement of her thinking, at age 80 in 2001, an editor at Oxford University Press recalled Wittgenstein's challenge. ''Well,'' he said, ''that is a problem that Philippa seems to have solved.'' Foot's philosophical voyage, her ''painfully slow journey,'' as she put it, was long in part because it was uphill. Though born into a family of privilege -- her father was a wealthy British industrialist, her mother a daughter of the U.S. president Grover Cleveland -- she was given no formal education (''I was extremely ignorant,'' she later said) and, being a woman, was not expected to go to college. Spurred on, however, by a governess who recognized her intelligence, Foot educated herself via correspondence courses and eventually attended Somerville College at Oxford. There, in the clubby, masculine atmosphere of high British learning, she cultivated friendships with a group of young female philosophers, among them Elizabeth Anscombe, who would become a prized student and editor of Wittgenstein's, and Iris Murdoch, the future novelist. (Philippa would marry one of Murdoch's former boyfriends, the historian M.R.D. Foot.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents an obituary for Daphne Park, baroness of Monmouth, Wales and principal of Somerville College in Oxford, England from 1980 to 1989, who died on March 24, 2010.

The article focuses on the experience of a teacher who spent her summer working at Somerville College, a women's college in Oxford, England. In a faculty tea, the subject of campus unrest in the United States came up. When asked if there were any signs of the problem in Oxford, a faculty explained that many of the students are cutting across the grass instead of the paths.