{"product_id":"newnham-quentin-postcard-pack","title":"Newnham College Postcard Pack Quentin Blake","description":"\u003cp\u003eOwn a little piece of Newnham’s history! We are pleased to be able to offer a very special range of postcards and notecards designed by Quentin Blake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePack of six postcards (148 x 105mm) with two each of the drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuentin 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":57830326862206,"sku":"pp-new-qb","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0287\/3507\/8448\/files\/QBPostcardPack.png?v=1786455689","url":"https:\/\/curatingcambridge.co.uk\/products\/newnham-quentin-postcard-pack","provider":"Curating Cambridge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}