Event Recaps

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The Society’s Annual Christmas Party on Monday provided a festive and fitting conclusion to what has been our busiest and most successful year yet.  The evening brought together 150 Cambridge graduates and their guests for a relaxed celebration to mark the end of the...

Report to follow... Organised by Richard Pearey

France is the unchallenged leader in matters vinous. No country produces more great wine, and in greater variety. Britain’s role has historically been the grateful neighbour. Our climate was not seen as warm enough to ripen grapes. But over the last twenty years...

What a lovey evening it was at The Orchard, where over 90 guests gathered to hear John Horam, Baron Horam of Grimsargh, lead a thought-provoking talk and discussion on the provocative question, Is the UK a Failed State?  The evening kicked off from around 6pm with...

Twelve were hosted at Richard's as he explore the Alsace region. France’s chequered relationship with neighbouring Germany has seen it occupied twice; and there are significant Germanic influences on language, architecture, culture and especially wine. Its climate is...

The Society, in collaboration with the University's Development and Alumni Relations Office, hosted an exciting pre-departure event for 250 new students going up to Cambridge.  The lovely venue, Drake and Morgan at Kings Cross, provided the perfect backdrop for an...

Eleven CamSocLon members tasted wines from Greece, which had the longest coastline on the Mediterranean basin with too many islands to count. Moreover, Greece, the birthplace of Western civilisation, had, as you’d expect, a wine culture from the early Bronze Age, and...

"...the most haunting and brilliant and thrilling and subtle and ancient on the planet." So speaks wine lover Miles about the flavours of Pinot Noir in the 2005 movie Sideways, which, combined with his negative expletives about Merlot dramatically altered the American...

On Friday, July 19th, our alumni group gathered at The Orchard for a compelling evening with Rory Cellan-Jones, former BBC Technology Correspondent, as he shared insights from his memoir, Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC.  Our talk drew an audience of 65 members...

Over 40 CamSocLon members and guests joined us for what was a lovely, if not rather warm, evening at The Coningsby Gallery. The exhibition for the evening was Ben Jennings' A Snowflake’s Progress.  The multi-award-winning cartoonist and illustrator's the first solo...

After our recent travels to the New World, it was time to get traditional again. Spain has been making wine for 5000 years, but wine is a very different drink since the advent of electricity and temperature controlled stainless steel tanks. Moreover, although Spain...

Historic Maritime Greenwich is a beautiful riverside spot, well worth exploring on a sunny afternoon. Blue Badge Tourist Guide Caroline Piper led a Cambridge Society group on a stroll through Christopher Wren's divine Old Royal Naval College grounds, with views in one...

Members of the Cambridge Society took an evening stroll through the Rotherhithe waterscape in June, led by Blue Badge Tourist Guide Caroline Piper. The weather was perfect, with gentle evening light resulting in great photos for everyone. The redeveloped docks were...