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Last chance to be listed in A Book of King's! »
A Book of King's, which will be published in November, contains contributions from over fourty contributors who all have links to King's College. Each one...
02 July 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
The Battle for Britain: King's on the home front »
"When war actually broke out, there was an element of relief mingled with horror and apprehension," wrote L.P. Wilkinson in his book A Century of...
28 June 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Graduation Day Celebrations »
Final year King's students were awarded their degrees last Thursday. The graduation ceremony began at 8.45am when the students gathered outside the Chapel in the...
11 June 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Alex Stobbs conducts charity concert »
King's student Alex Stobbs conducts a charity concert in the Chapel on Saturday 19 June. Alex is a brilliant musician who, despite suffering from cystic...
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...

King's members in the news
01 March 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Dr Alexander Etkind awarded €1 million grant! »
Dr Alexander Etkind, Fellow at King’s and a Reader in Russian Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of Slavonic Studies has received a three-year...
24 February 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Sir Salman Rushdie's archive opens to the public for the first time! »
Sir Salman Rushdie, KBE, Kingsman of 1965 and thirteenth on the The Times ' 2008 list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945", is...
23 February 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Christopher Borroni-Bird - Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century »
Imagine driving around your city or town in one of the vehicles shown on the cover—while connecting to your social network and favorite news and...
25 January 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
King's member unveiled as Labour's Cambridge candidate at the general election »
The date of the general election is still unknown - but King's member, David Zeichner (KC 1976) has been unveiled as Labour's candidate for the...
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...

King's journalists
17 February 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Alison Maitland: Why Women Mean Business »
Alison Maitland is a writer, speaker and conference moderator who special ises in leadership, women in business, corporate responsibility and the changing world of work....
15 October 2009   (1 Comment - view/add)
Expenses payback time: advice for cash-strapped MPs »
From singing for your supper to getting down and dirty, help is at hand for politicians facing penury. Paul Lewis (KC 2000, Social and Political...
13 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Guardian gagged from reporting parliament »
The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the...
13 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Costs of War: Peace Prize Politics »
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama astounded critics and supporters alike, but it also highlights a gap between the way the...
12 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Cameron blew it. Labour can win. »
Robert Conquest made two great contributions to human knowledge. As a historian he revealed the truth about Stalin's purges in the 1930s. As a writer,...

University of Cambridge: 800 years
19 February 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
King's showcased in Times Square, New York City, December 2009: photos now online! »
On Wednesday December 2 Cambridge in America rang the closing bell of the NASDAQ stock exchange to celebrate the 800th Anniversary Year of the University....
09 February 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Photographs from the 800th Anniversary Gala »
To mark Cambridge's 800th anniversary, back in December there was a festive black tie gala at New York City's Gotham Hall. The Gala was a...
13 January 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Transforming tomorrow: 800th Anniversary Finale »
Date: Saturday, 16 January to Monday, 18 January Location: Cambridge City Centre Time: 18:30 to 22:00 This year has been a very special one for...
02 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Diversity and interdependence: listen to the Vice-Chancellor on UK Higher Education »
Listen to the Vice Chancellor's Speech Download alternative formats In her annual 1st October address, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard called on the University to...
29 September 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Quentin Blake unveils Cambridge 800 panorama »
  Visit the Cambridge 800 website to see the pictures   Some of Cambridge University’s most famous alumni have been portrayed as never before by...

Upcoming events and past reports
07 July 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
The King's Engineers' Event 2010 »
The Fellows and staff of King’s were delighted to welcome over 100 King’s Members to the Engineers’ Event on Saturday 26th June. The Occasion brought...
11 June 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
25th Anniversary Reunion for 1985 »
The staff of the Development Office were delighted to welcome matriculation year 1985 back to the College on Saturday 5th June for their 25 th...
26 May 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
The 2010 MA Graduation at King's »
I was worried getting a degree for staying out of trouble for 4 years might feel a little empty, but with beautiful sunshine on King's...
20 May 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Reunion for matriculation years 1997 - 1999 »
The Development Office were delighted to welcome the classes of 1997-1999 back to the College on Saturday 15th May for an informal reunion. The event...
16 March 2010   (0 Comments - view/add)
Foundation Lunch 2010 - post-event report »
On Saturday, 13 th March King’s welcomed back 100 Members from matriculation years 1960 and earlier to reminisce about their time at King’s, rediscover its...

Obituaries
11 November 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
John Viney »
John Viney, who died on November 7 aged 61, was one of London's best-known and most idiosyncratic headhunters; at Heidrick & Struggles, and latterly as...
06 October 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Francis Noel-Baker: the man who helped found Amnesty International »
Francis Noel-Baker (KC 1939, History): Labour politician who clashed with the party over Cyprus and helped create Amnesty International, by fellow King's member Tam Dalyell...
21 April 2009   (0 Comments - view/add)
Obituary: JG Ballard »
JG Ballard (KC 1949, Medical Sciences) , who has died aged 78, once described himself as "a man of complete and serene ordinariness" (to the...

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