As the principal editor of the second Newnham anthology, Walking on the Grass, Dancing in the Corridors: Newnham at 150, Dr Gill Sutherland explores the factors that enabled the small domestic enterprise of the 1870s, resembling a school, to become an established institution for the higher education of women.

Available on catch-up after the Festival.

DR GILL SUTHERLAND taught and directed studies in History at Newnham from 1965 to 2007 and is now a Fellow Emerita. As a scholar of the social and political history of education and of women in particular, Gill is a fount of knowledge about the history of the College. With Kate Williams she is the editor of a second Newnham anthology, published to celebrate the 150th anniversary, Walking on the Grass, Dancing in the Corridors: Newnham at 150.