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  1. Championing public health

    Find out more about the history of the Liverpool Training School for Cookery founded in 1875 by Miss Fanny Louisa Calder.

  2. Professor Sir Howard Newby CBE

    Read the oration for Professor Sir Howard Newby CBE on the award of their Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University presented by Professor Phil Redmond.

  3. Johnny Ball

    Read the oration for Johnny Ball on the award of their Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University presented by Professor Frank Sanderson.

  4. Jane Williams (1898 - c. 2016)

    Jane was a student at the F.L. Calder College of Domestic Science, one of LJMU’s historic colleges, where she qualified as a teacher. She went on to teach at schools in Wales thanks to a personal reference from Fanny Calder herself. Records from her life help to tell the significant history of LJMU as an institution that supports the training of teachers, always placing importance on providing education for all. The records are held within LJMU’s Special Collections and Archives.