Newnham College is a women’s college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1871 to provide residential and academic support for women attending lectures in the university, and it remains one of Cambridge’s all-female colleges today. It is especially noted for its role in the history of women’s higher education and for its distinctive red‑brick Queen Anne–style architecture and gardens off Sidgwick Avenue.
 
Newnham began in 1871 as a house for five women on Regent Street, set up to support the new “Lectures for Ladies” and backed by reformers such as Henry Sidgwick and Millicent Garrett Fawcett.
 
Wonderful buildings in a vivid red brickwork designed by Basil Champney.
 
Interesting facts...
Sylvia Plath and Emma Thompson are both alumnae. 
More than 70 Newnham alumnae were secretly recruited for codebreaking and intelligence work at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, often described in records only as “temporary clerks” or similar euphemisms.
The women kept their secret by playing their roles down, deflecting questions with lines like “I just made the tea” even when they had done complex cryptanalytic work. amazing.