{"product_id":"newnham-mug-collection-qb","title":"Newnham College Mug Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese wonderful mugs feature drawings by Quentin Blake of Newnham women and Newnham history.  Quentin Blake was commissioned to draw a series of cartoons illustrating key moments and individuals in Cambridge University’s 800-year history, two of which depicted Newnhamites Dorothy Garrod and Rosalind Franklin. The artist very kindly drew the third – The Storming of the Clough Gates – especially for Newnham, inspired by events of October 1921, when the question as to whether women should be allowed to receive their degrees from the Vice-Chancellor in the Senate House was again put to the vote. The decision went against women and a crowd of male undergraduates marched to Newnham and grabbed a coal trolley which was used as “a battering-ram to smash down the Clough Memorial Gates”. In Quentin’s painting, the crowd races towards Pfeiffer Arch. Beyond the gates the Principal, Blanche Athena Clough, faces them – strong and brave but isolated. She is symbolic of Newnham’s determination to ensure that women would insist, quietly yet surely, on the right to be treated equally.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Newnham College","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57830326960510,"sku":"MUG-NEW-QB","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0287\/3507\/8448\/files\/MugsQBsetof3_e7aa027e-c6e0-458a-9aea-cdcbcb6af0ad.png?v=1786456412","url":"https:\/\/curatingcambridge.co.uk\/products\/newnham-mug-collection-qb","provider":"Curating Cambridge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}