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01 September 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Archive of the month: King's College - pomp, precision and protocol »
Royal visits to King's College date right back to 1446 when Henry VI came to lay the foundation stone of the Chapel. The visits have...
09 August 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
The Fountain: King's own water feature »
How do you introduce movement, sound and light into your backyard (or even your front court)? Add a water-feature of course! Every gardener knows that...
09 August 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Historian Tony Judt dies »
Historian and former Fellow of King's Tony Judt died last Friday (6 August), age 62. Judt is best known for his controversial essays on American...
09 June 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Archive of the month: The green spaces of King's »
This month's Archive of the month looks at the history of the gardens at King's. "The green spaces of King's" features documents and images from...
19 May 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Two Choristers win scholarships to Eton »
Two choristers from King's College Choir have won academic scholarships to Eton. Out of 105 candidates, Joseph Boorman and Joe Etheridge (both aged 13) came...
18 May 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Old King's notebook goes online »
An eighteenth century notebook from the King's archives has been published online. The notebook contains 400 pages of reading notes by King's student and Fellow...
04 May 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Archive of the Month: "Upstairs, downstairs - college servants 1919-1939" »
Picture Cambridge between the World Wars, what do you see? Images of black-robed fellows, top-hat sporting 'bulldogs' and hordes of young men in crew jackets drinking...
20 April 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Forthcoming exhibition - architectural sketches by John Devlin »
12 - 26 June 2010 This exhibition of 22 architectural sketches in a naive, intuitive idiom looks at a fanciful expansion of King's College, Cambridge...
16 April 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
King's choral scholar wins music prize »
King's student Matthew Sandy has won first prize in the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize Competition. Matthew (pictured, left, with Ben-San Lau) is a second...
08 April 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
New economic think-tank meets at King's »
More than 150 top academics, policy-makers, and private sector leaders meet at King's this week. They are coming to the first symposium of the Institute...
08 April 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Archive of the Month: "Identifying features: coats of arms" »
Today our identities are verified by PIN numbers, passwords, access codes andphoto IDs. In pre-electronic days individuals who needed to prove their social credentials would...
19 March 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Bloomsbury archive grabs media attention »
The Archive Centre has recently added to its already impressive collection of papers relating to the Bloomsbury Group, and today the story is on national...
18 March 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Restoration complete on the south side of the Chapel! »
The restoration work to the masonry and windows on th e south side of the Chapel has now finished. The work started in September 2008...
16 March 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Telephone Fundraising Campaign 2010 »
The next two weeks will see a team of 15 King’s students placing calls to almost 2000 Non Resident Members as part of our annual...
16 March 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
A book of King's »
Edited by Karl Sabbagh Principal photography by Martin Parr How do you compile a book to convey the unique nature of King's? A Book of...
10 March 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
New Dean at King's »
King’s is delighted to announce that Revd Dr Jeremy Morris has been elected as the College's new Dean. Dr Morris is currently Dean of Trinity...
02 March 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Puzzling correspondence in the King's Archive »
The archival document presented this month is a Victorian rebus-letter from the collection of William C. Green, who came up to King's in 1851. The...
01 March 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Tree felled to stop damage to the Back Gate »
Tree felled to stop damage to the Back Gate A large horse chestnut tree has been felled to stop the damage it is doing to...
09 February 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
King's Choir heads new BBC Easter schedule »
King's Choir will play a key part in a new Easter schedule from the BBC. BBC TV will broadcast Easter at King's , an Easter...
04 February 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Secular Illuminations: fine art in miniature in the Archive Centre »
February's Archive of the Month presents documents that date from the fourteenth to eighteenth century.They are prime examples of secular illumination and royal portraiture in...
02 February 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
King's welcomes a new Director of Development »
Julie Bressor has just started as the College’s new Director of Development. Julie will work closely with the Provost, Fellows, Development Board, King’s Members and...
25 January 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
New Bloomsbury papers at the Archives »
The Archive Centre has added to its already impressive collection of papers relating to the Bloomsbury Group. It has acquired and catalogued the letters of...
21 January 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Seals: stamps of authority in the Archive Centre »
January's Archive of the Month highlights some of the wax seals held in the Archive Centre. These miniature works of art date from King Stephen...
21 January 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Mark Pigott admitted as a Fellow Commoner »
In a ceremony in the Chapel on 19 January the Provost admitted Mark Pigott, OBE as a Fellow Commoner of the College. Mr Pigott is...
20 November 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Diary of a King's undergraduate »
Anne Pacita Boulton is in her first term at King’s College studying medicine. Already she’s getting a taste of what it will be like to...
20 November 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Her Majesty the Queen visits University to mark 800th Anniversary »
The University of Cambridge welcomed Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT, Chancellor of the University, yesterday as...
13 November 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Exclusive on this year's commissioned carol »
The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright.) The Christ-child...
13 November 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Choir prepares for an audience of millions »
New photographs have been released of this year’s rehearsals for what many people feel is the highlight of Christmas Eve - the carol service from...
02 November 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Reflections on Cambridge »
Alan MacFarlane(KC 1971, Anthropological Science) trained as a historian at Oxford from where he holds an M.A. and D.Phil. He also holds an M.Phil and...
30 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Life of a King's undergraduate »
Anne Pacita Boulton, 19, comes from Southampton. She took her GCSEs at St Anne’s Catholic School and then won a scholarship to do her A-levels...
30 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Topping out key plant science research building »
An important milestone in the construction of a major new research facility for the University of Cambridge has been marked with a topping out ceremony....
28 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Lord Giddens at Wordfest »
King's Fellow Anthony Giddens will discuss his latest book The Politics of Climate Change at the Cambridge literary festival Wordfest on 29 November. The book...
22 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Pigott Scholarships benefit King’s College graduates »
King’s College Cambridge has announced an innovative gift to create the Pigott Scholarships to support its graduate students. The scholarships will enable the College to...
07 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Not a museum of stone and glass »
Susan Tomes (KC 1972, Music) recalls her recent visit to King's Chapel and Evensong After lamenting the lack of music in Venice churches, I had...
07 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Bird & Fortune and James Galbraith appear in London tonight »
Join them wherever you are! Tonight, James K. Galbraith (KC 1974) will be speaking at the King's London Event, a discussion on the global financial...

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26/09/2010
Choir concert, Kingston Parish Church

02/10/2010
Choristership auditions. Further information from the Director of Music on 01223 331 224