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Building on the success of the John Stuart Mill Annual Lecture series which has been running since 2016, Somerville College will be launching a new one-day conference in May 2025. It aims to bring together researchers from the many disciplines in whi…

The Wrong Sex, an exhibition which runs from 9 April to 25 May 2024, shows the work of Fanchon Fröhlich (1927 – 2016), who graduated from Somerville College in 1953 with a DPhil for her research on post-Wittgensteinian linguistic philosophy. The exhi…

The Library is having a book sale: all books are £1 and you can pay in exact cash or ask us to add the cost to your Battels. The books are from various subjects and some are ex-library, but all are in decent condition: drop by and grab yourself a bar…

There is a new display up in the loggia, entitled Somerville in Film and Fiction – feel free to drop by and take a look! Many of the books mentioned in the exhibition are in our collection, and can be found using SOLO, and you can also ask Libr…

As many of the British Library’s services are going to continue to be down for what looks like months, the Bodleian has come up with some useful tips for getting around the current lack of access to eLD (electronic legal deposit) material and t…

Today and tomorrow (Thursday 5th and Friday 6th Oct) the Library is offering you a chance to enter into a prize draw for a £30 book token. All you have to do is complete their Scavenger Hunt. Designed primarily for those who are new to college, it is…

Welcome back to college to all returning students, and welcome to Somerville to all of our new students. For those of you returning, you may spot a few changes in the Library, as we have been busy moving books around during the summer (just to keep y…

We were asked recently whether it would be possible to open the John Stuart Mill Library this term, and so this is what we will be doing next Thursday, 11th May. The JSM Library will be open between 10.30am and 12.30pm, and then again between 2.00pm …

On Thursday 25th May, Professor Duncan Bell, Professor of Political Thought and International Relations, University of Cambridge & Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge will be delivering The 2023 John Stuart Mill Lecture at Somerville Coll…

We are delighted to let you know about an exciting development in the Library – the creation of a dedicated exhibition space. We were approached many months ago about the possibility of an exhibition for the works of a local artist, Luke King-Salter,…