Murray Edwards College
Modernist women's college of concrete courts and a domed hall, home to a major women's art collection.
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This guide to Murray Edwards College in Cambridge starts with a chemistry lecturer, Rosemary Murray, and the tool she carried around a borrowed house on Silver Street in the nineteen fifties. It follows the money behind a women's college the University would not fund, from cake sales and gifts from older colleges to the Darwin family's orchard. Stand in Orchard Court to see the wings named for early donors.
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