Ben Griffin

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A penny rocket, firecrackers thrown at Women -election campaign in 1897 to be able to win, is a graduate of the University of Cambridge

Women long fight, the fair access to University, remembered in an exhibition opening next week at the University of Cambridge library.

What is Most Shocking , perhaps, is that it's all so relatively new - in The Women not allowed to graduate from Cambridge at eye level, until 1948.

For teenagers who are currently completing their University applications, it would be hard to Imagine That within the living memory of the Cambridge -it was so clearly a discrimination.

The "Rising Tide" exhibition shows The Level of resistance, including violence against Women to want to be in the Cambridge study, with the same rights for Men .

Until 1948, Women were not able to graduate from the University of Cambridge

This includes the remains of the fireworks thrown by protesters in the year of 1897, when they rioted against The Revolutionary idea of Women getting degrees.

But in the end it is The Women , the a rocket to Cambridge , rather than The Other way round.

radical changes

If Cambridge was slow to complete for Women , it was a pioneer in the admission to the University, and The Exhibition is the 150th anniversary of The Women will be able to study at the University of Girton College, Cambridge .

This is The First admission of Women to the University was regarded as extremely radical and controversial.

It says, there was Lucy Delap , a historian in Cambridge and curator of The Exhibition evil campaigns, from former students opposing reformers wanted Women to be able to degrees

"It was an extraordinary idea".

But, she says, that was only the beginning for Women who want to have a "education according to the same conditions as Men ".

It was not until the 1880s that Women to the same tests as The Men , could fellow curator and historian, Ben Griffin says.

And students do not receive The Right to attend courses until the 1920S .

A painting by Caroline Walker of scientists was commissioned for The Exhibition

The fight did not end with The Right graduate with a degree in 1948, as Dr. Griffin says that the University is operated, a rate limit of female students until the early 1960s.

'Mental strength'

When The First Women arrived in Cambridge in 1869, he says it bore little relation to a modern University.

Only a hand full are taught by topics and only allowed people to complete the male members of The Church of England , and Dr. Griffin were says that much of the University, in essence, a "Anglican seminary".

It meant that both Women as well as all other denominations and all, which meant the resources to pay for the University was excluded, meaning that the vast majority of the population.

was collected worn The dress on The Left side of a "steamboat lady", which is a degree in Dublin and on The Right is a tennis dress from the 1880s

was The Arrival of The Women , marching in Cambridge , gloves and hats, and guarded by chaperones, an academic earthquake.

"It's A Question mark over their spiritual character. Women are the brains the same as those of The Men ? You can record information in the same way of lectures and essays? You have the intellectual power to be here?"

Dr. Delap said that these were the kind of challenges that change from a device, suspicious.

'injustice'

The Female students More Than it proved to be a match, But comes up in the exams, to graduate even though they were not able to.

"It seemed such an injustice that you are in front of The Men , but they are not always degrees and honors, The Men get," said Dr. Delap.

This has been used as evidence in the fight for Women to vote in the parliamentary elections. to be

But the push for Women graduates, supported by a public petition, was not accepted.

"the people who are vehemently against it were former students," says Dr. Griffin and she had a voice in the Cambridge decision-making.

The First female recipient of the degree of The Queen -mother, who received an honorary doctorate in 1948

In 1897, a vote to Women , the degree turned into a riot, to throw with the opponents firecrackers and eggs at the reformers.

another voice in 1921, and also blocks The Right of Women to a diploma, with the winners to celebrate, vandalising Newnham College, where The Women studied.

'Steamboat ladies'

This created some bizarre anomalies, with Women employed as academics, including a professor, which is not allowed by The 1930S , while still in order to get a degree.

The Other went away, switch to places like the London School of Economics and universities in the United States .

But there were creative efforts to this discriminatory barrier.

The Women brought their own completion certificates, which Dr. Delap says, could be much larger and more ornate than the documents of the University.

"you gave yourself DIY degree," she says.

There were also hundreds of Cambridge Women , between 1904 and 1907, graduated from the via Trinity College Dublin .

These so-called "steamboat ladies" used to collect, an arrangement that allowed them to degrees from Dublin , the back door route was also closed.

This was not to prove a point, Dr. Delap said, it was a practical document for The Women in jobs like teaching.

overturning assumptions

By the late 1940s, the refusal of Women , the degree had become untenable, and there was almost no opposition to its elimination. Faster The Present , much and more Women now go to University than Men in the UK, the gender gap is for students forward to in, about the lack of male students.

Cambridge -the-art recording of the new students

The Exhibition , the curators say, it shows how the attitude can be transformed, and that the assumptions we now hold, will also be repealed.

will continue the arguments about inclusion and exclusion, continuity and reform, human rights and injustice.

"It's about the ability to change," says Dr. Griffin .

"the arrangements to Which we are accustomed, is not fixed or timeless, they change also. There should be a hope, the thing that institutions can change, and change all the time," he says.

The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge -exhibition of 14. October, at Cambridge University Library

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