2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the Pepys Library's arrival at Magdalene. To celebrate we will be sharing treasure from the Pepys collection.
A treasure of the Pepys Library collection is a book from 1675 called ‘A survey of the microcosme’ by Johann Remmelin. 1/4

We're excited to share further details of the Choir's forthcoming tour - to Bosnia & Herzogovina 🇧🇦 😀

We'll be giving concerts on 2 July (Franciscan Church, Mostar) and 4 July (Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo) and we're very excited to explore this beautiful country

🎬 Meet Mastercard Foundation Scholar Chibuzor Ndubisi, from #Nigeria .

He has ambitions to drive change in #Africa ’s energy sector & confront a pressing challenge facing his community – the lack of stable energy

Info: bit.ly/44wPRRi

Chibuzor Ndubisi Magdalene College

Meet Mastercard Foundation Scholars Chibuzor, Itumeleng & Godbless – #Africa ’s next generation of transformative leaders!
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Each studying fully funded engineering-related Master’s degrees Cambridge University 🎬 Itumeleng Lucy Cavendish College shares her research Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)

Amazing! Well done Niamh! 🏆💪

A fantastic kick from Niamh Bridson-Hubbard to take the Women's 5000m title!

🥇Niamh Bridson-Hubbard | University of Cambridge Sport
🥈Tia Fae Wilson | Loughborough Sport
🥉Charlotte Dannatt | Loughborough Sport

We're looking forward to singing Choral Evensong in the shadow of the Shard - Southwark Cathedral tomorrow, Saturday 4 May, at 4pm 😎

The Precentor is hoping for a Hodge sighting 😹

A new blog post to mark the 70th Anniversary of CS Lewis arriving at Magdalene College Cambridge, by Professor Helen Cooper : magdlibs.com/2024/05/01/mar… #camlibs #speccolls

College Archivist, Katy Green, talks to Glen Jones Cambridge 105 Radio about the letters between mountaineer George Mallory and his wife Ruth that have been made available online one hundred years since his death on #Everest . Starts 18mins and continues 33mins. cambridge105.co.uk/glenn-jones-28…

Beginning a few days of school visits in Liverpool with a trip to Calderstones School, talking to Year 12s about super-curricular activities, personal statements, and admissions assessments.

On advance access: 'From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century'

by Dr Sara Caputo (@magdalenealumni
Cambridge History CRASSH, Cambridge)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/pastj/…

❤️ 'The candle is burning out and I must stop.'

Magdalene College Magdalene Libraries Archivist Katy Green talks about how dozens of letters to and from mountaineer George Mallory are being made available to a global audience for the first time.

🏔️ Explore the full story 👇

*Today!!*

A great turnout for the Faculty of Mathematics - University of Cambridge Open Day at Magdalene! Attendees received a tour of the College, an admissions talk, and a Q&A with a current Maths undergraduate, before an afternoon of workshops at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

A fond farewell to two of our top Porters! Mike and Chris are both retiring after 11 years in the Porters Lodge. They would like to thank the students, staff, and Fellows for all the happy times and wonderful memories.

On this day in 1661, Pepys drank hot chocolate as a hangover cure. Discover more about Pepys and chocolate in our latest blog post: magdlibs.com/2024/04/24/pep… #OTD

It was a lovely reunion!

There are just 10 days left to enter the Armstrong Arts and Humanities Essay Competition 2024! View the essay questions and competition guidelines here: magd.cam.ac.uk/essay-competit…

Congratulations to Magdalene student Claudia, a Cambridge ladies team member who won the Universities’ Team Racing crown at the 2024 Women’s BUSA Championships. They also collected Bronze in the concurrent National Championships. 🎉📷cucrc.org/?p=7668

22 yrs ago, while writing Mountains of the Mind, I studied George Mallory's original letters home from Everest in 1921, '22 & '24, in Magdalene College's archive.
Now they've digitised/published them all.
Fascinating, moving documents.
Open access here: magdalene.maxarchiveservices.co.uk/index.php/to-r…