Physics 1906

This is (according to a marketing email I just recieved), the University of Manchester's Department of Physics in 1906. My immediate take-away is that clearly the hat situation in the Faculty of Science and Engineering has deteriorated. My second thought is a vague curiosity about those women - are my assumptions about how many female academics there were in Physics at the turn of the last century incorrect? Were there an unusual number of female physicists at Manchester in 1906? Or are they support staff of some kind?
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... Oh! OK, I went and explored further from the link you gave, and according to https://alisonuttley.co.uk/early-writings/ the four women in this photo are indeed all students. Alison Uttley is the one second from the right at the back.
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Still, that seems like an impressive number for 1906 - I wonder if Manchester was particularly progressive or if actually there were a fair number of women studying physics then.
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That website is a bit of a treasure trove. I love her student magazine drawings, they look very familiar somehow!
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