I first heard that my affiliate undergraduate application in Medicine at Cambridge university was not taken up by Lucy Cavendish, the college I so eagerly wanted to be a part of but had been picked from the pool by St Edmund’s College. I had mixed feelings as I had little Read more…
I am fortunate to have had two residential periods at Eddies. I arrived at St Edmund’s for the first time in 2001 from a rural New Hampshire town in the United States (U.S.) to study Education. I was a single graduate student with one very clear goal in mind; finish Read more…
There’s a lady who lived just down the road from us in Cambridge of whom everyone should know the name. Julian of Norwich, a fifteenth-century East Anglian anchoress, was – and remains – an influential Christian mystic and theologian. In addition to her spiritual importance, she is the first woman Read more…
St Edmund’s wasn’t my first choice of college. In fact, I had applied for the all female Lucy Cavendish and came fourth in a three place race. But, having bonded in my interview with their Senior Tutor about our mutual back problems she kindly recommended me to St Edmund’s. After Read more…
When people, things, and places become so deeply embedded in our hearts and minds, it is often difficult to articulate precisely ‘how’ and ‘when’ they first wove their way into, and began subtly informing, the everyday patterns of our lives: so familiar and dear do they become. Cambridge, and my Read more…
My plane is delayed. My sister clumsily tries to comfort me.”Italians are always late!”“So what?”I had perfectly calculated how to get to college before sunset. A shape sorter of trains and taxis. “In England they are called cabs …”.“Listen, can you tell me again your address?”“I don’t know the postal Read more…
My first visit to St Edmund’s was for football training in 1989. The members of the New Hall cuppers team used to stroll across the fields at the back of our college to the full-sized pitch laid out at St Ed’s. Even then, the pitch had its eccentricities and the Read more…
The year 1969 marked a monumental change for the College. Margaret Geib Wilkinson was admitted as the first female student, putting St Edmund’s House ahead of all the all-male Colleges in the admission of women. Now, fifty years later, we look back to those times and forward into a bright Read more…