University of Durham

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Education Mary Stewart
Mary Rainbow (later MS ) received her BA in English with First Class Honours from Durham University , where she had enrolled in 1935.
Stewart, Mary. About Mary Stewart. Musson.
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Education Mary Stewart
She was involved in both university social activities and sports. She became the president of both the Women's Union and the Literary Society as well as participating in college theatricals. The last may perhaps have...
Employer Mary Stewart
In 1941 MS was offered a part-time position (six lectures a week) as a lecturer in the English Department of Durham University , which was short of staff because of enlistment in the armed forces...
Employer Mary Stewart
MS was asked to lecture part-time at St Hild's College of education for women (a part of the university)
In 1975 this was merged with Durham's college of education for men as the College of...
Employer Fleur Adcock
In LondonFA worked as a librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (which bought her a few hours of solitude each day to write in) until she took the plunge and became a...
Employer U. A. Fanthorpe
After becoming known as a poet Fanthorpe held several writer-in-residence posts. The offer of a year as Arts Council writer in residence at St Martin's College , Lancaster in 1983 moved the hospital to give...
Employer Carol Rumens
She has also held writer-in-residence positions at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham (as Northern Arts Literary Fellow, 1988-90), Queen's University, Belfast (1991-3 and again 1995-8), University College, Cork (1994), and the Stockholm University (Spring...
Family and Intimate relationships Gillian Slovo
Five hundred people were detained under this law in its first six months. On release they could be re-arrested (as First was as she stood in a phone booth outside the prison, about to tell...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Stewart
While studying at the University of Durham Mary Rainbow (later MS ) continued to write, but poetry rather than fiction, with the dream of becoming a lecturer on poetry at Oxford.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers, 1990.
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Later, when she...
Occupation Jane Ellen Harrison
In March 1895 she received the first honorary LLD awarded to a woman by the University of Aberdeen , and two years later she received an honorary DLitt from the University of Durham for her scholarship.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Occupation Kathleen Jamie
She has spent two periods working at the Centre for Medical Humanities as a Fellow of Durham University 's Institute for Advanced Studies, the second of them in early 2012.
“Launch of ’Frissure’: a collaboration between Kathleen Jamie, Brigid Collins and CMH”. Centre for Medical Humanities, 13 Aug. 2013.
Occupation Gillian Slovo
GS served for three years as president of English PEN . One month before her term was due to expire she resigned her presidency in order to draw attention to what she said was an...
Reception Helen Waddell
HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...
Reception Kathleen Raine
In 1974 she was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester . Two more such degrees followed from Durham in 1979 and the University of Caen in France, 1987.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes.
Reception Mary Stewart
MS was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Durham University , her alma mater, at a ceremony in Durham Cathedral.
Hutchison, Chris. “Lady Mary Florence Elinor Stewart, Doctor of Letters”. Durham University Website, 3 July 2009.

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1827: The Church Missionary Society founded an...

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1827

The Church Missionary Society founded an institution in Africa, Fourah Bay College , to train native African teachers and missionaries.
Church Missionary Society Archive: Section IV: Africa Missions. Adam Matthew.

1832: The University of Durham was founded....

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1832

The University of Durham was founded.
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
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Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
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Dyhouse, Carol. No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939. UCL Press, 1995.
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