Page of typed minutes from an Oxford college meeting in 1969, discussing the potential admission of women undergraduates. Includes handwritten note by W.R. Hawthorne. Mentions efforts to review regulations and principles of admitting women.

1969

A momentous decision

  • Churchill becomes the first men’s college to decide to admit women (8 March)
  • Student representatives admitted as observers to College Council: first reps are Julian Filowchowski (U66) and Edward Libbey (U&G66)
  • Students (in particular Michael Trier, U67) organise International Student Conference on ‘Relations between Industry and the Universities’, Prince Philip present
  • John Barnes, Fellow, becomes the university’s first professor of sociology
  • Final May Ball, with Jethro Tull and Black Sabbath
  • Service at the Chapel broadcast on BBC World Service