Magdalene College
Riverside college founded for Benedictine monks, with a sixteenth-century street front and courts.
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This guide to Magdalene College in Cambridge stands you at the gatehouse on Magdalene Street in nineteen eighty-eight, when the last all-male college in Oxford or Cambridge opened its doors to women. It follows the Benedictine monks the college was built to seclude from the town, and the young men who greeted the change with armbands and a flag at half-mast. Best heard by the porters' lodge, looking through the arch into First Court.
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