Swanley Horticultural College

Swanley Horticultural College, founded in 1889 (135 years ago) (1889), was a college of horticulture in Hextable, Kent, England.[1] It originally took only male students but by 1894 the majority of students were female and it became a women-only institution in 1903.[2][3]

  1. ^ Opitz, Donald L. (March 2013). ""A Triumph of Brains over Brute": Women and Science at the Horticultural College, Swanley, 1890–1910". Isis. 104 (1): 30–62. doi:10.1086/669882. PMID 23789507. S2CID 21613726.
  2. ^ The Remarkable Women of Swanley Horticultural College: Seven short histories (PDF). Hextable Heritage Society.
  3. ^ Crawford, Elizabeth (2008). "Wilkinson, Fanny Rollo". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97936. Retrieved 16 July 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)