On this day in history

In a heated debate, the University of Oxford voted to admit women to honours programmes on 29 April 1884, but they weren’t allowed to study for a full degree until 1920. Cicely Delphine Williams, a pioneer for paediatrics, was one of the first women to graduate in Medicine that year. All Souls College (pictured) admitted women as fellows in 1979, and the last all-male college, to welcome them was St Benet’s in 2016.