Event Recaps

A group of 26 CamSoc members travelled down to Portsmouth on a beautiful blue-sky day for an afternoon and evening exploring our maritime heritage through two great warships, the Mary Rose and HMS Victory. The Commanding Officer of HMS Victory, Lieutenant Commander BJ...

Every year we work with the University to provide a Freshers’ Party for students from London schools about to go up to Cambridge in a couple of weeks’ time.  This is one of the ‘Welcome to Cambridge’ events held all over the world, but ours is the biggest (and, we...

From 10:00 we congregated in our private Society Suite with the matches due to start at 11:00, but grey was the weather and rain fell until 12.30.  Play started at 12.40 when the lads took to the field wearing black armbands in memory of the first day of the Somme. 5...

19 CamSoc members attended the Botticelli Reimagined Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum on 27 June courtesy of our hosts, Appetite UK. What a pleasure to wander around this wonderful museum without the crowds. The exhibition itself was fascinating and...

Our visit to HMS Duncan was absolutely stunning – a private tour around our latest Type 45 destroyer led by (to many of us) remarkably young officers and lasting almost 2 hours – everywhere from flight deck to ops room to bridge to sick bay to sleeping quarters to...

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...