Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library in 2019
Issue number
(2019): 12
2019 was a year of notable anniversaries, marking as it does both the 400th anniversary of the Savilian Professorships in geometry and astronomy, and the 40th anniversary of women students at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ. In 1619, the scholar and diplomat Sir Henry Savile (1549–1622) founded two university chairs bearing his name, which have long been associated with °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ. And if we fast-forward from 1619 in Oxford some 360 years to 1979, women students are for the first time ever matriculating at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ.
Paula Wilson, Portrait of Ruth Mazo Karras and Caroline Kay (2019)
Oil on board, 100 x 90 cms, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Oxford