St Anne's College

St Anne's College
founding	1879 Association for the Education of Women 0000 Society of Home Students 1942 St Anne's Society
Sponsorship	University of Oxford
place	Oxford
Principal	Helen King
Students	437 postgraduates : 187
Website	www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk

The St Anne's College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford . It was originally founded as the Association for the Education of Women , the first institution in Oxford to include women in higher education. The facility was later known as the Society of Home Students . In 1942 it was finally renamed St Anne's Society and was given college status in 1952. Until 1979 only women were accepted. Today St Anne's is one of the larger colleges with around 450 undergraduates and around 150 graduate students. The ratio between male and female students is now balanced.

location

The college is located in North Oxford , on St John's College donated property between Woodstock Road and Banbury Road . Before that, the college was spread across Oxford in several buildings. These were sold to fund the Ruth Deech Building, completed in 2005 .

Known teachers

Ruth Deech Building

• Simon Donaldson
• AC Grayling
• Nick Middleton
• Iris Murdoch
• Graham Nelson

Well-known students

• William MacAskill , British philosopher, co-founder of the effective altruism movement
• Penelope Lively
• Danny Alexander , a British politician of the Liberal Democrats , Vice President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
• Ben Hudson , musician
• Samantha Shannon , British writer
• Karen Armstrong , British religious scholar
• Wendy Beckett , British hermit
• Tina Brown , British - American magazine editor and journalist
• Liam D'Arcy Brown , British sinologist and travel writer
• Baroness Ruth Deech , British lawyer and professor , member of the House of Lords
• Mary Douglas , British social anthropologist
• UA Fanthorpe , British poet
• Penelope Farmer , British author
• Helen Fielding , British author
• Mary Harron , Canadian director and screenwriter
• Zoë Heller , British journalist and writer
• Diana Wynne Jones , British writer
• Penelope Lively , British writer
• Baroness Lindsay Northover , British politician of the Liberal Democrats , Member of the House of Lords
• Ged Quinn , British painter
• Simon Rattle , British conductor and chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2002 .
• Jancis Robinson , British wine critic
• Cicely Saunders , English doctor , social worker and nurse
• Susan Sontag , American writer , essayist , publicist and director
• Jane Thynne , British journalist and writer
• Polly Toynbee , British journalist and civil rights activist
• Jill Paton Walsh , British writer
• Mara Yamauchi , British long distance runner

Web links

Commons : St Anne's College  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Virtual tour of St Anne's College (English)

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 43.6 "  N , 1 ° 15 ′ 43.1"  W.