Event Recaps

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...

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...