Written by Charlotte Dean (nee Bulman) about her mother Margo (Marguerite) Bulman. It’s half a century now since my widowed grandmother, Beatrix Fearnsides, moved down from Sheffield in 1969 to The White Cottage, to be near my family living in Lady Margaret Road at Strathaird. Barely moved in, she received Read more…
A professional chartered librarian, Susanne Jennings has worked in Cambridge University libraries for the past 17 years. She has worked part-time at St Edmund’s library for a number of years and was appointed College Librarian in 2018. For two years, she worked concurrently at St Edmund’s and as Subject Librarian Read more…
It had always been my dream to study at Cambridge University. So when it came to decide either to accept the full government scholarship to do my degree at a university in Singapore, or to take the offer from St Edmund’s College, my heart was set on Cambridge, even though Read more…
I came to Cambridge to study Law as my second undergraduate degree and joined St Edmund’s as an affiliated student. Having been brought up in Hong Kong and spending four years in the US for my first undergraduate degree, I did not know what to expect when I first arrived Read more…
There aren’t many plant scientists on the lovely Mount Pleasant Road, fewer still as you amble into St Edmund’s, but this college is exactly where I picked up the shovel for the first time, despite being a botanist for almost two decades! Much of my research is limited to the Read more…
St Edmund’s is my third Cambridge College. As a student, I was affiliated with Queens’, which sadly was not a great love affair, probably not helped by the fact that at the time graduate students were still a relatively new category and treated as second class students, with limited access Read more…
I first joined St. Edmund’s as a visiting scholar for the Michaelmas term of 2006, when Professor Paul Luzio was master. I was grateful for the warm welcome I received and I did not hesitate to choose St. Edmund’s again to spend my sabbatical year, 2016-17. In those ten years the Read more…
This year I celebrate my 20th year as a member of the University of Cambridge. I also have a big birthday this year(!), at which point I will have spent half of my life in Cambridge as part of the University. I am, however, relatively new to St Edmund’s, having Read more…
As is evident from so many accounts of ‘Women at St Edmund’s’, there are many ways that lead to the College… The beginning of my connection to St Edmund’s is via the Chapel, and goes back to the mid 1990s, when I was reading for a second degree, subsequently followed Read more…
In 2012 I made a shift in my focus as a musician from singing as a soloist in International opera houses to being a fulltime composer of operas. At the time I was singing regularly with many opera companies in particular those in Antwerp, Strasbourg and Salzburg. The lifestyle was Read more…