Event Recaps

Oxford won the toss and chose to bat. Over the next few hours we watched them achieve a score of 202 with particular credit due to some of their lower-middle order batsmen. We then headed off to the Coronation Garden for our picnics with reasonable confidence about...

For many years a great deal of inequality has existed in sport. Those spectators who prefer watching the fairer gender in action have not been well catered for. Fortunately, at least in this respect, all Society members and their guests were fully satisfied at the...

The Society’s festive Pall Mall Party the week before Christmas was both a jolly and elegant occasion. Members, potential members and their partners gathered in the magnificent chandeliered Smoking Room of the Oxford and Cambridge Club, all fully compliant, of course,...

What Happened in the Drawing Room... ... shall largely remain in the Drawing Room. We held our fourth Singles Evening at the British Film Institute in their elegant private venue known simply as 'The Drawing Room'. Once again some sparks were in evidence as more than...

In they came, more than 200 of them – nervous, apprehensive, excited, proud –having just left school and about to take their places at our University in the Fens.  The Society’s traditional London Welcome to the soon-to-be Freshers took place on 17 September in an...

Society member Lester Hillman led two groups on a whirlwind walk, taking in some surprising highlights of the City of London. As with all of Lester's previous Society walks, his remarkable encyclopaedic knowledge of the area and plethora of anecdotes kept us...

The Varsity cricket ended with a six, a smashed window and the match ball in our very own suite. Were we to blame? Find out below! Over the first few hours of this most relaxed of Society events, we watched our side reach 177 all out. Our members used the extended...

With the race starting unusually late this year (at 6pm) we began our festivities mid-afternoon in our delightful Victorian-style drawing room directly overlooking the start of the race. As the boats lined up we threw open our windows and saw the crews set off and...

“We are linked but not compromised. We are interested and associated but not absorbed.” Those were Winston Churchill’s views on Britain’s relationship with Europe as we learnt at our sell-out event at the German Historical Institute. With a hall packed by our members...

The Society’s festive Pall Mall Party the week before Christmas was both a jolly and elegant occasion. Members, potential members and their partners gathered in the magnificent chandeliered Smoking Room of the Oxford and Cambridge Club, all fully compliant, of course,...

Our special High Quality, High Impact, High Level (thirty floors up over Canary Wharf) Networking Evening was, as always, a most enjoyable and successful event. Clifford Chance provided their customary and very generous hospitality and those attending, from all walks...

Few of the two hundred or so then-school-leavers will have forgotten their three hours of raucous friend-making at our Society’s Freshers’ Evening. Were they nervous? Of course they were! That lasted for about twenty seconds though, after which mass joy and...

Well, what can we say? It was of course enormously enjoyable - old friends, new friends, guests, families, and so on, all the normal ingredients of our annual private box at Lord's for the One Day Varsity Matches. And did anything go wrong? All we can say, really, is...

The venue for our Oxbridge Singles Evening last Wednesday was the Drawing Room at the British Film Institute, which was chosen for a number of reasons. It certainly has appealing quaint décor with traditional furniture and a well-stocked bookcase, as well as...

The Cambridge Society of London's Boat Race Party was once again held from the vantage point of our first floor private room, the Wolsey Room, at the Duke's Head in Putney. Forty of us gathered in the elegant room for more than four hours of merriment before, during...