Event Recaps

Members of the society spent an enjoyable Friday evening at the National Portrait Gallery exploring portraits of Harmless Hanoverians and Victorious Victorians in a tour led by Blue Badge Guide Caroline Piper.  In doing so we covered 200 years of history from 1714 to...

What an evening!  And what a theme - 'Politics - Whatever Next?’!  We sat down to dinner at 7.30 and then John Horam, Baron Horam of Grimsargh, who has been at the centre of politics for over 40 years as an MP in all three major parties, as a Minister, and now in the...

How can one describe a pretty perfect evening other than to say it was pretty perfect?  For four hours the magnificent chandeliered Smoking Room of the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall hosted 150 of our members and guests, each suitably dressed, labelled, more...

On Friday 30th November members of the Cambridge Society explored the development of British Art & Design at the V&A in a tour by Blue Badge Guide Caroline Piper.  Our tour took us from the Renaissance design of the Tudor court to the iconic designs of William...

On Friday 2nd November members of the Cambridge Society explored the ever evolving and changing City of London on a walking tour led by Blue Badge Guide Caroline Piper.  We started with post-war rebuilding in the Golden Lane and Barbican estates.  Seen as concrete...

On Friday 26th October members of the Cambridge Society were treated to a tour of the superb Medieval and Renaissance galleries at the Victoria and Albert museum, led by Blue Badge Guide Caroline Piper.  The V&A kindly gave us private access to the galleries so we...

40 of us gathered on the stunning 30th floor of Clifford Chance in Canary Wharf for drinks and canapés and general chitchat, introducing each other and breaking a little bit of ground for about half an hour.  Then we went into the ‘1 Minute To Win It’ room and each...

The Cambridge Society of London members had a fabulous evening in the heart of Fitzrovia at Coningsby gallery. The showcase ‘TYPE face’ by Peter Strain featured artwork inspired by figures from words and creating portraits that relates to mortality, love, life and...

A beautiful summer's evening provided the perfect occasion for a stroll through Docklands with Caroline Piper.  We explored the picturesque St Katherine's Docks, built by Thomas Telford 190 years and the centre of the ivory and luxury goods trade before its 1970s...

Members of the Society had a great time exploring London "in the footsteps of James Bond" with Caroline Piper. Things did not start well with thunder, lightning and torrential rain just as the tour was about to start!  However, 20 minutes later the storm abated and we...

On the hottest day of 2018 so far, a group of Society members and their guests enjoyed a walk through the royal parks led by Caroline Piper (Society member and tour guide).  We started at the beautiful Bomber Command memorial in Green Park which captures in a poignant...

It couldn't have been more perfect: clear blue skies, temperatures in the mid 20’s, the lightest of breezes, the men playing on the Main Ground with the pitch close to the Tavern Stand, and almost three dozen of us assembled there in our Society box with staff serving...

One of the more exciting elements of  organising an entirely outdoor event for the Cambridge Society of London is predicting what the weather will do on the day, but thankfully for our tour of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew we needn’t have worried. Not...

On a sunny spring evening Society members enjoyed a walk around Covent Garden led by Caroline Piper.  We explored the beautiful, elegant piazza built in the 1630s as London's first luxury square and learned about how the local people saved the market from...

On the first day of the May Day Bank Holiday Weekend - and a red hot one at that - Lester Hillman (St Catharine’s) took us on a historical mystery tour. In a little over 1.5 miles he managed to cram in a huge range of locational anecdotes and references,...