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Maintained by the Christ's College Alumni and Development Office.

03/09/2026

We're delighted to welcome signwriter Robin Taylor back to College for the annual task of filling in the staircase name boards ready for our new and returning students in October.

🎨 Thank you, Robin!

📷 Christ's College Cambridge

01/09/2026

1 September is World Letter Writing Day.

Charles Darwin, alumnus, wrote and received thousands of letters. This example (MS 53 Fox 1) written to his second cousin William Darwin Fox, also an alumnus, reminds us of his passion for etymology - the study of insects - which began while he was an undergraduate at Christ's.

On 12 June 1828, he wrote:

"My dear Fox, I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects ..."

https://ow.ly/cCww50ZHAUX

Darwin's letters are catalogued at the Darwin Correspondence Project https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/

📷 Christ's College Cambridge

27/08/2026

The 2026 Pokémon World Championships take place in San Francisco from August 28-30.

We wish student Marcus Koh the best of luck!

Marcus said:

"I'm thrilled to be competing in my second World Championships. I feel that I've learned and improved so much as a player since last year, so I'm really hoping to give it my best shot."

Read more https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clywvwn9l7jo

📷Lloyd Mann/University of Cambridge

26/08/2026

Students at Christ’s enjoy many different clubs and societies in College and at the University. These range from aikido to ultimate frisbee, and from Kpop to Jazz.

https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/opportunities/societies/

Students who are joining College in October, look out for details of the Christ's Freshers' Fair to find out more about in-college activities.

📷 Photo by Stefano Zocca on Unsplash

25/08/2026

Are you visiting Cambridge or staying at Christ's College this summer?

If so, take time to explore the gardens and grounds with our new Guide and Map.

Pick up a paper copy at the Porters' Lodge or download a copy on our website https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/about/visiting-christs

🌻Gardens and Grounds 09.00-12.00, 7 days a week
🌻Fellows' Garden 09.00-12.00, Monday to Friday

Christ's is open all year around apart from during Quiet Period (May-June) and at Christmas.

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21/08/2026

The latest edition of 'Pieces', our alumni magazine, is published online. It includes:

• Head Coach and Boathouse Manager, Kate Hurst, on life on and off the water
• An interview with Emeritus Fellow, Dr Vis Navaratnam.
• 'The future of carbon capture' by postgraduate, Cerys Walsh
• Fellow, Harriet Lyon, on time in early modern England

And more …

https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications/pieces

📷 Christ's College Cambridge

19/08/2026

Looking back to the solar eclipse last week …

Thank you to our student, Liu Hao and to Peter Jackson, a postgraduate Girton College for sharing this animation and photos. The photos were taken using the Astronomy Society (CUAS) telescopes, with a solar filter installed on the front of the scope.

Liu Hao is an undergraduate studying Natural Sciences. He said:

“You can see dark sunspots where the solar surface is cooler, as well as the speckled white patches (faculae) on the surface of the sun.”

📷CUAS

17/08/2026

We’re proud that the modern game of tiddlywinks was devised in Christ’s College in 1955 when Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club (CUTWC) was founded.

In January 2025, we celebrated the 70 year anniversary with alumni who were there in the early days.

https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/news/70-years-tiddlywinks

The club still meets – join them to learn how to squidge (play a wink) and squop (cover an opponent's wink)!

📷University of Cambridge

12/08/2026

'As when the sun new-risen
Looks through the horizontal misty air
Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds
On half the nations, and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs ...'

(Paradise Lost 1.594-99)

This simile from alumnus John Milton's poem 'Paradise Lost', comparing the fallen Satan to an eclipsed sun, became one of the most controversial passages in the poem in the political climate of the Restoration, as the lines were understood to threaten kings with 'change', or revolution.

For more analysis of Milton's poem, head to Darkness Visible, the College's Milton study resource https://darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/

📷 Design by Lily Owens for Christ's College Cambridge

11/08/2026

The oldest known example of printed wallpaper will go on display at Christ's for the first time in September as part of Open Cambridge.

The fragments were found and saved by workmen in the Master's Lodge in 1911 and carefully pieced together to reveal a pomegranate motif. The design was printed by York-based Hugo Goes on the back of other printed material, including a proclamation announcing the accession of King Henry VIII in 1509.

The wallpaper dates to around the time of the College's re-foundation in 1505 by Lady Margaret Beaufort.

https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/news/tudor-wallpaper

📷Helen Ho**er Photography/Christ's College Cambridge

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