Recently celebrating its 170th anniversary, Cheltenham Ladies’ College has been a bastion of education for girls and young women ages 11 to 18. From its Victorian roots to its role today as a global ...

Despite serving a reasonably privileged few, Cheltenham Ladies' College and Miss Beale herself could not be accused of existing in a bubble of insularity. During vacations at Queen’s College, Miss ...

The principal of Cheltenham Ladies’ College says she was made to feel “slightly immoral” in running a fee-charging school. Vicky Tuck reckons that “many of us in the independent sector work very hard ...

CLC is an independent boarding and day school for girls ages 11 to 18 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Founded in 1853, the college is celebrating 170 years of history, with its pupils having ...

Premonitions of war were felt in Cheltenham long before they were felt by the general public. The Cheltenham Ladies College set up a volunteer fire brigade with a drill procedure in place by 1909 in ...

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In her paper entitled ’On The Education of Girls’, read at the Social Science Congress of 1865, Dorothea Beale outlined what she saw as the critical flaw in the upbringing of young girls: “I think ...