Event Recaps

This year about 180 eager, excited, apprehensive teenagers from London schools came together for the Society’s Freshers’ Evening in central London and settled in for a couple of hours of friendship-making, networking, fact-finding, experience-sharing and...

The 2017 Varsity Match at Lord’s With perfect weather and a perfect gathering of the Society’s Cambridge chums and their guests, plus a pretty good selection of drinks of various strengths served by our own staff in our own box in the Tavern Stand, all looked set for...

On May 25th a group of 20 members met at the Coningsby Gallery for another evening of conversation and networking accompanied by wine and canapes. As with previous evenings at the gallery, the art on display provided an interesting talking point. Organised by David...

  Most generously our Society Member and expert guide Lester Hillman took two groups of us, at 11.am and at 6.30 pm, through the main streets, back streets, secluded alleys and hidden corners of the Angel, Clerkenwell and Smithfield, informing and entertaining us...

Twenty-five Society members and guests met outside the Tate Britain on a blustery, slightly drizzly Thursday evening for our London on Film walking tour led by Cambridge alumna Caroline Piper, a fully qualified Blue Badge Tourist Guide. Caroline led us on a...

Entering the Freemason's Hall, the home of the Metropolitan Grand Lodge, the centre of London Freemasonry, forty Society members and guests left the hustle and noise of Covent Garden behind us for an evening exploring this magnificent building, learning about...

For the sixth year running we enjoyed superb views over the start of the boat races from our Victorian-style drawing room on the first floor of an elegant Grade II listed building. With a three-course meal, our own bar, a television and excellent company, what more...

This was the second evening held at the Coningsby Gallery in Tottenham St, a minute from Goodge St station, and again it was very enjoyable. Some 45 of us gathered in the most informal way for drinks, sandwiches and exotic nibbles to view a...

What a splendid evening! 60 Society members and their guests were directed through a discreet passageway off St James’s Street into the smallest public square in London. We were then ushered through the front door of an elegant Georgian townhouse and shown down into...

As instructed, for almost an hour we twenty Society members remained silent in wonder, wandering up and downstairs and around the candlelit terraced Georgian house gazing at the perfect representation of a middle-class Huguenot weaving family, each decoration and...

Up to 150 Society members and their guests came together in the magnificent Smoking Room of the Oxford and Cambridge Club on Monday 12 December for our grand End-of-Year Pall Mall Party. Now the regular final event in our annual calendar it was again a spectacular...

Over 40 Society members and their guests gathered for what we knew would be a fascinating and most enjoyable evening in the elegant Coningsby Gallery near Tottenham Court Road. The paintings on display were from the prolific and talented Cambridge artist Michael...

On the 30th floor of Clifford Chance in Canary Wharf over two dozen of us met for half an hour of drinks and nibbles; then a relaxed and humorous plenary session where each of us explained in 60 seconds what type of people we were and why we were networking that...

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...