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Girton

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Davies founds in 1869

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Queen’s College

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London 1848 for governesses

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Cheltenham

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Ladies’ College 1853

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Newnham

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Sidgwick and Millicent Garret Fawcett in 1871

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Lectures for Ladies

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At Cambridge from 1869

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Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Cambridge

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1869, Sidgwick involved

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Extension of Cambridge local exams to Girls

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Under 18
trial in 1863, established in 1865

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Somerville

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Green and his wife, Oxford, 1879
same year he sat on committee to form an OX Women’s college where distinction not made on religious background

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Education act

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Elementary Education Act 1880
compulsory for all children 5-10
raised to 11 in 1893
raised to 12 in 99

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Intermediate difficulty exams

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Sidgwick helped institute in Cam for women
1869

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Birmingham Uni

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Formed of Queen’s College medical school (1825) and Mason Science College (1875 founded by industrialist and philanthropist)

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Vestiges

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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
1844
wide readership
synthesis of a bunch of ologies: evolution brought into public arena

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X club

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Huxley, Tyndall and Spencer
dining club supporting theory of natural selection and academic liberalism

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Agnosticism

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coined by Huxley in 1869
existence of the divine as unknowable

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Darwin’s cryptic line

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light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history

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Richard Owen

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opposition to Huxley, Hooker and Darwin: review of Origins tore it to shreds and attacked Darwin’s credentials

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Disraeli

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after convos on ape origins, declared self ‘on the side of the angels’

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Wallace text name

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On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart indefinitely from the original type
sent to Darwin in 1858

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Origins

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November 1859
written in 13 months after 2 decades of research

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Huxley-Wilberforce debate

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1860
7 months after Origins
Wilberforce as a bishop and a great speaker. Criticised Darwin on scientific grounds, a lack of facts: arguments mentioned geological record and fossils and lack of intermediate steps; evidence of mummies and no human change in 4000 years.
Moneky remark most remembered

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Charles Lycell

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Principles of Geology, 1830-33 3 vols
the controversial attempt to reconcile the implications of geological time with the Bible.

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Palace of Westminster

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1840-1876
Pugin and Charles Barry
inspiration of chapel of Henry VII, Westminster Abbey

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Ecclesiastical style

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Church Building Act 1818

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Ecclesiastical society

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Cambridge group
research and advocacy of gothic as english rather than french
opposed to Pugin (‘s catholocism)

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Pugin

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Contrasts, 1836
1440 vs. 1840 English village

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Pugin’s dad

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Specimens of Gothic Architecture (1821)

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Oxford Natural History Museum

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1855-1860
Predominantly by Woodward
carvings by the O’ Shea Brothers

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Acland

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Sir Henry Acland
Initiating construction of Natural history musuem by claiming this as a balance to the one-sidedness of Ox curriculum (history, theology, history, philosophy)
common idea of Nature as the second book of God

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Science at Oxford

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Honours School of Natural Science from 1850

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Great Exhibition

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1851 Great Exhibition
Crystal Palace

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Red House

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designed by Philip Webb
Morris lived there 1860-1865
medieval spirit
Rossetti: ‘more a poem than a house’

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Morris socialism thing

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1884
The Socialist League

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Morris press

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Kelmscott Press
1891

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Morris and Webb Buildings society

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Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

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Webb house not red house

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Standon House

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Macaulay death

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1859

37
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Nun painting

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Charles Collins, Convent Thoughts 1850-1

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Isabella

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Millais, 1848

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Ophelia

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Millais, 1851-2

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Ruskin woman

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Anna Elizabeth Blunden

41
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angels in the house

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Coventry Patmore
narrative poem about ideal marriage

Victorian (3 decks)

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