6 October 2020
St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow commemorated with blue plaque in St. Giles’
Oxford's first woman don, Annie Rogers, has been commemorated for her work as a ceaseless campaigner for women's full membership of Oxford University.
After gaining first class honours in Latin and Greek in 1877 and Ancient History in 1879 at the University of Oxford, Annie Rogers went on to become the secretary of Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women, which was influential in a campaign for women to earn full degrees at Oxford. From 1894 to 1936 (with a gap of just one yea...
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