Event Recaps

The boat races afternoon this year treated us for the first time to four full contests between our oarspersons and those of our old rivals. As ever, the very best arrangements to enjoy the occasion were found with our Society with our ideal location in a private room...

Forty of our members attended a most impressive private viewing at the Royal Geographical Society. The evening started with Rita Gardner, RGS Director, sharing her views on the vital importance of the study of geography in tackling many of the world's challenges...

Our December Party in the Oxford and Cambridge Club was again a very convivial affair, with some 140 members and guests enjoying the year-end pleasures of that magnificent building in like-minded company. As the “hosting” member of the Club I emerged unscathed – you...

Our Mayfair Reception in the very impressive Kallos Gallery on 12th November went extremely well. Seventy of us gathered for an extended three-hour period where champagne and canapés were served throughout - and in what better way could you hope to spend a November...

 On 12th August Society member Lester Hillman led us on two spellbinding guided tours along the Regent's Canal. We are very grateful to Lester for his contribution to the Society. Here is his enthralling account of those walks: "It was almost worthy of an announcement...

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,...