Group of four women at a tea party within the grounds of Somerville College. Photograph by Henry W Taunt. Copyright © Oxford University Images / Oxfordshire History Centre — All rights reserved.

100 years of Oxford’s amazing women

One hundred years may have passed, but many of these women are still firsts: the first in their family to go to university or the first woman to hold a particular post — sometimes both.

Grainy early photos would have you believe that the first women at Oxford spent their time at…