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Governance and Administration (ANN/GA)

This section of the archive is currently uncatalogued. Please find a summary below. 

Material relating to the strategic management and organisation of the SOHS (1879 to 1942), St Anne’s Society (1942 to 1952) and St Anne’s College (1952 to present). There is some overlap between this section and the collections of papers for the bodies that were responsible for the governance of the Home-Students before 1922 (ANN/AEW from 1897 to 1911 and ANN/WS from 1911 to 1921).

Annual Reports

Published Annual Reports on the business of the SOHS under the auspices of AEW (1879-1910), the Delegacy for Women Students (1911-1920) and the Delegacy for Home-Students (1920-1943).

Committee Minutes – Minutes and papers for committees including:

  • Committee of Oxford Home-Students Minutes (1911-1946) (Delegates of the SOHS 1922, Delegates of St Anne’s Society from 1942)
  • St Anne’s Council Minutes (1952-1959)
  • Governing Body Minutes (1959 onwards)
  • Tutorial Fund Standing Committee Minutes (1925-1937)
  • Tutors Meeting Minutes (Later Tutorial Committee) (1922- c. 1979)
  • Benefaction and Building Committee Minutes (1931-1935)
  • Examiners’ Meeting Minutes (1928-1972)
  • Hostels Committee Minutes (c. 1950s)
  • House Committee Minutes (1953-1981)
  • Research Scholarship Committee (1954-1964)
  • Church Service Committee (1934-1950)

Early administrative papers such as material on the 1927 Statute of Limitation (limiting the number of students in the women’s colleges) and the formation of the new Delegacy for Home-Students in 1921.

Principal’s Correspondence A sequence of c. 80 files arranged alphabetically by subject, covering operational matters, usually from the office of the Principal, dating from approximately from the 1920s to 1960s.

Topics include:

  • American Summer Schools
  • Hostels and Lodgings
  • Change of Name (from SOHS to St Anne’s)
  • Fees
  • Finance
  • Examination Reports
  • Hartland House (including benefaction from Amy Hartland)
  • College Houses (35 Banbury Road and 56 Woodstock Road)
  • Library (including Nettleship Library)
  • JCR
  • 1 Jowett Walk
  • 2 South Parks Road (Musgrave House)
  • Overseas Students
  • Scholarships
  • Tutors
  • War (including War Work and wartime residences) 

Wartime arrangements (WW1 and WW2) – Wartime addresses to Students (1917-1918); First World War service exemption certificates for Home-Students (1920); ‘The Ballad of Hartland House'(anonymous poem humorously describing war work of the College during WW2, inspecting fusecaps for the manufacture of munitions for Morris Motors); and a file of correspondence and records on ‘War Work at St Anne’s’ (1942-1945).  

Finance – Sheets of receipts and expenditure and miscellaneous financial papers (1921-1922); draft version of form for a legacy to Oxford Home-Students (c. 1920s); papers on Government grants (1921); Oxford Home-Students’ appeal (1921);  endowment fund appeal (after establishment of delegacy in 1910); report on the Eleanor Plumer Fund (1953-1955); letter from Ruth F Butler about an increase in pensions (1963); letters on financial arrangements for the Library (1937) and the Hartland Trust (1946); and tuition fees meeting (1924).

Obtaining Collegiate Status – ‘From St Anne’s Society to St Anne’s College’: a letter from Ruth F Butler to Journal of Education (July 1952); Incorporation Memorandum from St Hilda’s to Registrar (Dec 1950); copies of Royal Charter and Statutes (May 1952); supplement to Vol. 2 of the History of St Anne’s by M D R Leys (1957); Charter and Statues pamphlet: 'At the Council Chamber, Whitehall'; and copies for University Gazette and GB minutes 1959-60 concerning full collegiate status and change of corporate designation to ‘the Principal and Fellows…’.

Rules and Regulations – SOHS regulations 1889 and regulations for migrating from a women’s hall to SOHS; regulations for matriculated Home-Students (1920); letter from the Chief Constable to the Principal about bicycles (1921); rules and regulations correspondence (1920s); rules (1926); bye-laws and regulations (1927); regulations concerning the terms in which students are expected to pass examinations (1926); rules for admission of women students from overseas (1931); regulations on Latin and Greek (c. 1931); and St Anne’s addenda to the Proctors’ memorandum on the ‘conduct and discipline of junior members of the University’ (1965).