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 ...

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Dorothea Beale, as the most famous Principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College, shaped her pupils to provide an ‘army’ of teachers, doctors, mothers and wives who turned the tide by example and by ...

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 ...

So, who coined such a sneeringly useful term? Well, the pupils of Cheltenham Ladies College, apparently. Rumour in the town has it that chav is derived from Cheltenham Average, the name given by ...

Pupils will have less prep in the library, but more meditation and time between lessons Cheltenham Ladies' College Meditation and longer time between lessons are the way forward to prevent an ...

Cheltenham Ladies' College has put forward ambitious plans to build a new 65-bed student accommodation house in Cheltenham, which would also include staff accommodation units and a staff 'crash pad'.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It was the discovery of a medicinal spring in 1716 in a field, close to where Cheltenham Ladies’ College now ...

Perish the thought that any self-respecting gal from Cheltenham Ladies’ College should wish to show more than an inch of bare thigh. And she surely wouldn’t want to be caught wearing a skirt ...

She was to devote the next forty-eight years to the development of Cheltenham Ladies' College, which at the time of her death in 1906 had grown to a community of some 1,000 pupils, famed the world ...