Archive of the Month: March 2023

Photograph - University College of North Wales General Body of Women Students, 1923-24.

From the scrapbook of Miss M.O. Davis, Warden of the Women Students.

March is the month for observing Women’s History Month, and to celebrate, this month’s feature comes from the scrapbook of Miss M.O. Davis, Warden of the Women Students from 1915 to 1943.

The University College of North Wales, Bangor, in its early years conformed to the model of the English civic universities in admitting women students. This was formalised in the University Charter, which stated:

“Female students shall be admitted to attend any of the courses of instruction established by the College, subject to such restrictions and regulations (if any) as Statutes of the College from time to time prescribe.”

Of the first students to be registered at the University, a third were women (which was a higher proportion than at English institutions during this period) - some of them the daughters of prominent local families; others the children of working men and women.

Miss M.O. Davis, 1916.

This ‘Archive of the Month’ feature was created by Lynette Williams, Archivist.

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