News from the Archives

News

The A-Z of the Archive is was completed on the College's Twitter feed in December 2018.
A list of College Chaplains is now available on the College website.
The College's collection of oil paintings can now be viewed online via the Art UK website (formerly Your Paintings). If you have any questions about the paintings please get in touch with the Archivist.

Recent Accessions

World War I documentation concerning to former members
Material relating to an expedition undertaken by Cambridge University students, including some from St Catharine's to North West Portugal in the summers of 1953 and 1954
1954-56 College Football Club photographs

Can you help?

The College is always pleased to receive donations of material that relate to the College. Please get in touch with the Archivist if you think you have material that may be of interest.

Currently, the Archive is particularly seeking the following:

Material relating to the College and its members during the First and Second World Wars;
Records of the JCR, especially the JCR Suggestions Books for 1945-1971, and post 1973
Photographs and information about St Chad's;
Material relating to College Balls;
Student Society records, including termcards and photographs.

Online Images

Each term, to publicise the College's archive holdings, the Archivist will be making a small selection of images of documents from the College archives available online. For Lent Term 2020, we take a look at the history of the College Hall.

Previous Images

Long Vacation 2018: the College's 1906 Tennis Team.
Easter Term 2018: May Week of 1910.
Lent Term 2018: photograph of a College dinner, held in a student's room, in 1915.
Michaelmas Term 2017: College blazer collection
Easter Term 2017: the stone from 1674
Lent Term 2017: the College gardens.
Long vacation 2016: the College stables built in 1875, as part of the building of a new Master's Lodge.
Easter Term 2016: Gostlin House in Chapel Court.
Lent Term 2016: Ofspring Blackall, Fellow of the College from 1679-1687 and latterly Bishop of Exeter.