Event Recaps

World Wetlands Day 2013 saw members and friends perched above the head waters of the Fleet River in Highgate North London. There followed an odyssey to the tidal Thames at Blackfriars completing perhaps the first recorded Cambridge exploration of the river. Along the...

A remarkable mix of some 30 members and friends of all vintages, backgrounds and interests congregated in the Breese Little Gallery in Clerkenwell. Owners of the gallery Josephine Breese and Henry Little, who both studied History of Art at Cambridge, had invited us to...

Our Annual Freshers' Evening was a terrific success! It always is - the freshers just make it so. Meeting this year in a venue very close to Great Portland Street Station some 200 school-leavers from London, perhaps a little apprehensive, found themselves immediately...

On a balmy evening in mid-September a group of Society members congregated in Parliament Square for a Very Special Event - a guided tour of not only the highest courts in the land (which are open at other times to the general public) but also of the private library of...

Sun-drenched it wasn't; knuckle-biting it was, for the men anyway. And what an exciting day for everyone! Our Society's famous Lord's Suite Party did us proud on a day when the heavens had threatened to overwhelm us, and we thought that our great Coronation Garden...

On an amazingly tropical evening our in-the-know members gathered at the Frameless Gallery on Clerkenwell Green to meet, chat and network while studying and admiring the remarkable installations brought to London from Vienna by our Cambridge alumni hosts Vanda and...

Well, we said it would be spectacular but nothing could have prepared us for the theatre that unfolded in front of our eyes - probably the most dramatic Boat Race in its 158 years: the neck-and-neck half-way struggle, the nearly decapitated swimmer, the restart, the...

Fourteen members spent a few highly entertaining hours preparing and cooking the Huntingdon Fidget Pie under expert instruction. We then feasted on our creations together over wine at the dining table and much fun was had by all! Organised by Alastair Gourlay and...

We very much enjoyed the keen participation and the entertaining variety of 60-second (or thereabouts) introductions at this event! Organised by Alastair Gourlay and David Peace  

Our Society Dinner in the Edward VII Room at the Oxford and Cambridge Club was a friendly and enjoyable evening with a fascinating and international cast of diners including a shipping magnate, a former diplomat, a television director, a finance expert, a Queen’s...

Our Annual Freshers' Party was a triumph! At our secret location in Marylebone 200 teenagers (mostly) were let in upon payment of the princely sum of £4 and then proceeded to engage joyfully with each other for three hours, refreshing their enthusiasm with the...

With just one year to go to the 2012 Olympics the Cambridge Society of London was back at St Pancras International to see the Central London portal to the Games. At the statue of Sir John Betjeman the irony was not lost on the gathering, cruelly denied as he was a...

We were blessed by a day of pure sunshine amongst countless days of rainfall in London for the Oxford vs. Cambridge Varsity Matches at Lord’s cricket grounds. In the morning some Society members enjoyed a thorough tour of Lord’s, taking in the full history of the...

I hope you'll be pleased (and if you weren't there, perhaps rather envious) to hear that our Singles Evening on the South Bank was a terrific success.  More than 60 members, their guests and a number of Oxford people booked, turned up, caroused, and had a very...

For the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race we had a prime area reserved with views directly across the Thames, right at the start of the race. We were located by the 'Surrey station' (the south side of the river, as Boat Race enthusiasts will know) on the patio of the...