Editing Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (section)

===Growth and development===
With a new building opening in 1894, the college expanded to 25 students.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lady Margaret Hall|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol3/pp341-343|website=British History Online|publisher=Institute of Historical Research|access-date=18 August 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/About-LMH/Virtual-tour/New-Old-Hall.aspx|title=LMH, Oxford – New Old Hall|website=Lmh.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref>

The land on which the college is built was formerly part of the manor of Norham that belonged to [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]]. The college bought the land from St John's in 1894, the other institution driving a hard bargain and requiring a development price not only on the practical building land but also on the undevelopable water meadows. However, this land purchase marked a change in ambition from occupying residential buildings for teaching purposes to erecting buildings befitting an educational institution.

In 1897, members of Lady Margaret Hall founded the Lady Margaret Hall Settlement,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lmhs.org.uk/about/|title=Lady Margaret Hall Settlement :: About|website=Lmhs.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-09-18}}</ref>  as part of the [[settlement movement]]. It was a charitable initiative, originally a place for graduates from the college to live in North Lambeth where they would work with and help develop opportunities for the poor.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Lady Margaret Hall Settlement|url=http://www.lmhs.org.uk/about/|website=The Lady Margaret Hall Settlement (LMHS)|publisher=LHMS|access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Records of Lady Margaret Hall Settlement|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/bad738d3-4687-4399-b178-57d793f2c10b|website=The National Archives|publisher=Gov.uk|access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref> Members of the college also helped found the [[Women's University Settlement]], which continues to operate to this day, as the Blackfriars Settlement in south London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk/history|title=Our History|website=www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk|access-date=25 March 2020}}</ref>

Before 1920, the university refused to give [[academic degree]]s to women and would not acknowledge them as full members of the university. (Some of these women, nicknamed the [[steamboat ladies]], were awarded [[ad eundem degree|''ad eundem'']] degrees by [[Trinity College Dublin]], between 1904 and 1907.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Timeline of the History of Women in Trinity|url=https://www.tcd.ie/about/trinity/events/Womens_Centenary/timeline.php|website=A Century of Women in Trinity College|access-date=8 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129225449/https://www.tcd.ie/about/trinity/events/Womens_Centenary/timeline.php|archive-date=29 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>) In 1920 the first women graduated from the college at the [[Sheldonian Theatre]] and the principal at the time, [[Henrietta Jex-Blake]], was given an [[honorary degree]].<ref name="lmh.ox.ac.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/about-lmh/history-and-archives/college-timeline|title=College Timeline|website=Lady Margaret Hall|access-date=25 March 2020}}</ref>

During the [[Second World War]] women were not permitted to fight on the front line, and thus many of the students and fellows took up other roles to aid in the war effort, becoming nurses, firefighters and ambulance drivers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/about-lmh/lmh-objects/ambulance-driver-1918|title=Ambulance driver, 1918|website=Lady Margaret Hall|access-date=25 March 2020}}</ref> The Fellows' Lawn was dug up and the students grew vegetables as part of the [[Dig for Victory]] campaign.<ref name="lmh.ox.ac.uk"/>

In 1979, one hundred years after its foundation, the college began admitting men as well as women; it was the first of the women's colleges to do so, along with [[St Anne's College, Oxford|St. Anne's]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11627451.display/|title=Principal led switch to mixed-sex college|website=Oxford Mail|date=27 November 2014 |access-date=30 September 2017}}</ref>