Life Before Cambridge I was born in a small district in Jamaica to a large family of mostly males. My mother was a house wife and my father was a retired electrician and poultry farmer. My parents were of a generation of the lower middle class who believed in education. Read more…
Nevertheless, she laughed! As my PhD in Cambridge and St. Edmund’s is coming to an end, the most important aspect of my life here were the people who changed me, shaped me and taught me so much about life. I turned 30 during my PhD program. As a single Pakistani Read more…
It was actually a chance discovery in the Archive that has made this 50th anniversary celebration possible. Up until a few years ago, no one knew when the first female student was admitted to St Edmunds. I had received several boxes of old tutorial files from the Tutorial Office and Read more…
October 17th 2019. Matriculation. Armed with a Harry Potter wand hidden underneath my academic gown, I shook hands with the new Master, who inquired what a Doctoral Training in Future Propulsion and Power was. “A bit like rocket science,” I politely smiled. My graduate studies at Cambridge involve the gas Read more…
Born in London, raised in Brazil and later Switzerland, with a Brazilian mother and a Scottish father, I’ve always struggled to identify with a single nationality: I felt too English for Brazil, too Brazilian for Switzerland, too ‘Continental’ for England. Though I was very excited to receive an offer to Read more…
When the taxi deposited me and my new husband, Jim (’78 Law) in the driveway of St. Edmund’s House (as it was then), in September 1978 I felt like I’d been dropped on another planet. The college looked drab, dreary-I’d been warned it was “Victorian Horror” architecture- and I thought Read more…
I arrived in Cambridge as an international student from Oman in 1995, having self-raised £70,000 from various private companies to fund my MPhil/PhD in Cellular Pathology in Fitzwilliam College. I loved my time in Cambridge and so following my graduation in 2000, I decided to take on a position as Read more…
Written by Professor Geoffrey J. Giles (1969, History) about Elisabeth Stopp (1911-1996). Elisabeth Stopp was a distinguished Germanist, and possibly the first female Fellow of St. Edmund’s. Certainly, in the 1969 college group photo, she is the only woman among the 43 men present. A person of great warmth and Read more…
“The Master invites you into the hall for dinner”, bellowed the Dean, to the sound of a gong. Decked in the navy Cambridge gown, fresh from the chapel ceremony, and then waiting within the centuries-old walls of St Edmund’s College was surreal. I remember my undergraduate matriculation in Singapore— a Read more…