> Thematic History

> 1850-1901:
Education for Women
- Victorian Ideals
- Woman Physician
- Ladies College

> 1902-1913:
Education & Vocation
- Learning at ELC
- The Westfield Way

> 1914-1945:
War & Circumstance
- The Great War
- WWII Evacuation
- Learning & Leisure

> 1946-1959:
Peace & Acceptance
- Restoration
- Medicine & Dentistry

> 1960-present:
Change & Opportunity
- Women in Science
- Creativity & Diversity
- Then & Now

When Queen Mary College evacuated to Cambridge, both the College administration and male staff and students were accommodated at King’s College. Women staff and students were initially provided with accommodation at Girton College, Cambridge. In 1940, the women staff and students took up residence in two private houses in Hills Road.

Queen Mary College Prospectus, 1942-1943. Courtesy of Queen Mary, University of London Archives. Right: Women students at Girton College, Cambridge, c1944. It was a requirement during wartime that windows be blacked-out, as shown in this photograph. Courtesy of The Mistress & Fellows, Girton College, Cambridge.

Bedford College (another of the London Colleges) was also evacuated to Cambridge during the war, and shared facilities with colleagues. In the photograph below of QMC and Bedford Botany staff, Maud Godward (top row, first on left) is pictured. She was a graduate from East London College and became Botany Lecturer at QMC.

Botany staff from Queen Mary College and Bedford College in Cambridge, c1940.
Courtesy of Queen Mary, University of London Archives.