Library News
Library opening hours, Easter Term 2013
25 Apr 2013
Our opening hours this term have been extended! Monday - Friday 9.00am - 11.00pm Saturday & Sunday 10.00am - 11.00pm Except Saturday 15 June: 10.00am - 6.00pm Chapel Wing Reading Room The reading room on the top... Read more
Library colour printer
23 Jan 2013
The Library now has a colour printer! To print in colour, select Lib_2_Col from the list of printers. Colour printing costs 15p for a single-sided sheet and 30p for a double-sided... Read more
Accessing electronic resources (e.g. e-j…
28 Nov 2012
If you are planning to use electronic resources (e.g. electronic journals) while away from Cambridge, please make sure before you leave that you know the correct passwords. Many (but not all)... Read more
Littler Reading Room opening hours
Monday to Friday
9.15am - 1.00pm
2.00pm - 4.45pm
Closed at weekends, Christmas, Easter, and for 2 weeks in the summer
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARCHIVE
Hannah Westall
Archivist
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t. 01223 338897
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Jenny Blackhurst
Assistant Librarian
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t. 01223 338970
Archive and Special Collections
Girton College Archive and Special Collections encapsulate the history of the College - from its pioneering foundation in 1869 as the first residential higher education college for women, through the admission of women to the University of Cambridge in 1948 and the subsequent admission of men to the College in the 1970s, to the forward-looking and vibrant Girton familiar to today's students.
The Archive holds and collects records of the College, including administrative records and the personal papers of former and current Fellows and students. Our collections are an important resource in the study of women's history, and particularly in the history of women's higher education. The collections also include material on nineteenth and twentieth-century feminism and women's social history.
In addition, there are some 15 Special Collections in the College Library. In the early days, Girton received copies of their own work from supporters such as George Eliot, Charles Darwin, and John Ruskin. More recent gifts have included a Shakespeare Second Folio, a "Treacle" Bible, and a fifteenth-century Flemish Book of Hours. The scholarly texts in these collections often provide insights into the lives and scholarship of their previous owners.
About our collections
A subject guide to the Archive
A guide to the Special Collections
Using the Archive and Special Collections
Requestions to copy or publish material
History of Girton College
A brief history of Girton College [coming soon!]