Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

Lucy Cavendish College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is a women-only college, which admits only postgraduates and undergraduates aged 21 or over. The college was founded in 1965 by women researchers and lecturers of the University of Cambridge who felt that women were not thoroughly represented within the university. It was originally known as the Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society. It moved to its current site in 1970, was granted consent to call itself "Lucy Cavendish College" in 1986, and gained the status of a full college of the university by Royal Charter in... 1997. The college is named in honour of Lucy Cavendish , who campaigned for the reform of women's education. The origins of Lucy Cavendish College are traceable to "The Dining Group" which sought to provide the stimulation of high table conversation to its members who were not Fellows of Colleges. At the time there were only two women's colleges in Cambridge, Girton and Newnham, and these were not enough to accommodate the large numbers of women recruited to teach and provide academically based services.
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