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No. 55

Obituaries
Brian Deakin

Articles
The President's sermon, 15 May 2011 by N. Boyle

The Immortal Memory - Managing Timber: How Pepys Measured up by J. Raven

The other Prince William [HRH Prince William of Gloucester (1960)] by R. Hyam

Meconopsis Expedition - The Valley of Flowers by K. Patel & J. Gurdon

Trafford Leigh-Mallory - Commander of Controversy by A.R. Thompson

Is there such a thing as European Cinema? by Peter Cowie

No. 56

A Change of Statutes
A Change of Masters

Articles
Looking at Magdalene by R. Hyam

Samuel Pepys's Chinese Almanacks by R. Luckett

Morshead and Kelly by R. Luckett

The Chemistry of Bernard Charles Saunders by A. Buell [includes the story about rice pudding at High Table]

The Boat Race has become the Boat Races by Pat Marsh

Magdalene Memories by John Hudson

No. 57

Obituaries
A.W.B. Vincent

Articles
The Nobel Prize by J.B. Gurdon

It's a Proctor's Life by Dr Christian Skott

One of our portraits is missing! Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) by G.W. Atkins

The art of the physician: Pepys MS 1662 by M.E.J. Hughes

From the Hermannsburg Mission to the College of St Mary Magdalene by D.D. Robinson

College rooms in Victorian times: a photographic essay by R. Hyam

No. 58

Obituaries
Seamus J. Heaney
Nelson Mandela
A.M.C. Brown

Articles
The College and the Great War - Magdalene's 'lost generation', 1914-1918 by Ged Martin

'A pint or two of wine and a dish of anchovies' - Pepys and the wine trade by M.E.J. Hughes

Reading the seventeenth century - An Old Library commonplace-book by M. Hetherington

The Fox Glacier, New Zealand, by Kate Fagin (1948-2012) by Rosemary Boyle

No. 59

Obituaries
Sir Christopher Staughton
A.D. Rawley

Articles
Kings of Orient - Sultan of Perak by R.D. Williams

Ireland, India and the British Empire by Jane Ohlmeyer

Manuscripts of the Old Library - six of the best by M.E.J. Hughes

Nuclear energy in the UK - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by R.L. Skelton

From book to film - five minutes of fame by Jane Hellyer Jones

Mary Magdalene by Jane Williams

No. 60

Obituaries
Lord Ezra

Articles
Pepys and the anatomists by M.E.J. Hughes

Reading a sonnet with C.S. Lewis by E.H. Cooper

T.S. Eliot and Magdalene by R.D. Williams

Chapel stall-plates by R. Hyam

W.B. Yeats and the Steinach operation by N. Rushton

No. 61

Obituaries
Lord Braybrooke
John Dwight
Sir Derek Oulton
Sir Anthony Jay

Articles
Building a new library, seventeenth century fashion by M.E.J. Hughes

Telescopes, time, and an incredible evolving Universe by J.J. Wiseman

Pepys and bibliomania by J.R. Raven

C.S. Lewis considers Hamlet by E.H. Cooper

No. 62

Articles
The unlikely hero of Everest: the other side of George Mallory by R. Hyam

'Good discourse among the old men - of Islands now and then rising and falling again in the sea': Samuel Pepys and fantastical islands by M.E.J. Hughes

'Stuck in reverse': the disappearing Suffolk coast by T. Spencer and Susan Brooks

Return to Valhalla: The portrait of Professor William Farish by Henry Perronet Briggs by J.M. Munns

Natural disasters by E.K.M. So

No. 63

Articles
A note on the tapestry room: 30 Thompson's Lane by R. Hyam

Nicholson's portrait of Benson: An unusual piece of College art history by R. Hyam and J.M. Munns

Global Science, National Horizons by S. Dubow

Turbulent Water: The Irish Sea in culture by C. Connolly

Margaret, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sawawak by Susannah Roberts

No. 64

Obituaries
Simon Barrington-Ward
Jeffery Lewins
Finbarr Livesey
Michael Keall
Sir John Tooley
Henry Lumley

Articles
Adventures in Ancient Writing and the Cypriot Teardrop by P.M. Steele

Developing Automated Acoustic Diagnosis of Dysphagia by A. Gregory

Painting the Master [Rowan Williams] by Lorna May Wadsworth

No. 65

Obituaries
John Field
Richard Luckett
Martin Hughes

Articles
Looking at new ways antibodies can protect us from viruses by S. Caddy

A Master of Magdalene founder of the NHS? by R. Hyam

Pavlov's maggots by L. Masuda-Nakagawa

The School of night: Courtiers, poets, and scientists in the age of Shakespeare by J. Jarrett

Magdalene College flora by Jonathan Shanklin

No. 66

Obituaries
Bill Cornish
Bamber Gascoigne

Articles
New light on old stones: The Chapel Floor by C. Casey

The causes of ageing by A. Baez-Ortega

Early modern Chinese books by C. Brokaw

The Dunster stone by R. Chartener

The Cambridge seamstress by R. Chartener

C.S. Lewis by Tony Spearing

No. 67

Obituaries
Duncan Robinson

Articles
Magdalene's cooks and their plates by T. Licence

Politics, economics and sex: The making of Nevada's legal brothels by Barbara G. Brents

Planning for success? Law's contribution to a controversial topic by A.E.J. Mills

The conviction of things not seen: The Lady Margaret Sermon 2022 by D.M. Doyle

The Fellows' Butler by Andrew Ruddell

No. 68

Obituaries
Tony Cockerill
Sir John Boardman
Helen Vendler
The Rt Hon Lord (Igor) Judge

Articles
Bibliotheca Pepysiana 1724: The Library arrives at its new home by M.E.J. Hughes

Young Men's Perspectives on child criminal exploitation and their involvement in drug dealing by H.J. Marshall

Life in distant oceans by F. Rigby

'An extremely naughty boy': Robert Keable (1905) and Magdalene by Simon Keable-Elliott

The Head Gardener by Mark Scott

No. 69

Articles
Minute - and mass - observation: On being painted by M.E.J. Hughes

Arthur Benson diarist: Extracts from the A.C. Benson centenary lecture, 12 March 2025 by E. Duffy

A new look for an old friend: Restoring the Pepys Building by T. Spencer

Harnessing the power of the immune system to fight cancer by K. Okkenhaug

Lessons from the landscape of Morocco by A.K. Bennison

Evolution's struggle for existence by A. Baez-Ortega

No. 1

Obituary
The Very Revd. Ralph Milburn Blakiston, Rector of Hadleigh and Dean of Boking

Articles
Magdalene and Motors - A Brief account of William Cecil, Mechanician and Divine by S.G.

The Magdalene Lads' Club

The new buildings [Bright's Building]

Reports from the following Clubs and Societies
Boat Club
Cricket
Lawn Tennis
Hockey
Football
Rugby

Magdalene Lads' Club

No. 78

Obituary
Richard Neville

Articles
Magdalene During the War by Frank Salter

Images
Vernon Stanley Vernon-Jones (black & white photo of his portrait: MCWA/A/123)

News
Honours:
R.H. Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe - O.B.E. 1940
D.W. Babbage - O.B.E. 1945
Lord Burghley - K.C.M.G. 1943
D.G. Christopherson - O.B.E. 1946
Charles Empson - C.M.G. 1943
H.W.S. Gray - K.B.E. 1938
A.S. Griffith - C.B.E. 1939
J.H. Le Rougetel - K.C.M.G. 1946
Sir Harold MacMichael - K.C.M.G, D.S.O, G.C.M.G. 1944
Capt. the Rt Hon. David Margesson - M.C. Viscount 1942
O.F. Morshead - C.V.O., D.S.O., M.C., K.C.V.O., 1944
Col (temp. Maj. Gen.) C.S. Napier - C.B.E. 1944, C.B. 1945
F.R. Salter - O.B.E. 1944
Capt. W.P. Sidney - awarded the Victoria Cross, 1943
O.E. Simmonds - Knight Batchelor 1944
Sir Frank Stockdale, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., G.C.M.G., 1945
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder - K.C.B., 1942, G.C.B., 1942, Baron 1946

Reports by the following clubs and societies
Amalgamation Club list of officers for 1946-47 - Boat Club, Cricket, Rugby, Football, Hockey, Lawn Tennis, Eton Fives, Rugby Fives, Squash Racquets, Athletics, Table Tennis, Chess, Music Club, History Society

Boat Club
Cricket
Rugby
Football
Hockey
Lawn Tennis
Eton Fives
Rugby Fives
Squash Racquets
Athletics
Table Tennis

Chess
Music

No. 80

Articles
Professor Blackett by K.W.

A Cheshire Mother's Letters to her Undergraduate Son at Magdalene College, 1728-1729 - Egerton Family seated at Tatton Park by E. Egerton

1875 (formation of the Rugby Club) by M.P.

Images
The Hall by Candlelight - Pepys's Birthday, 1948 [first Pepys Dinner since the war]

Reports by the following clubs and societies
Amalgamation Club list of officers for 1948-49 - Boat Club, Cricket, Rugby, Football, Hockey, Lawn Tennis, Squash Racquets, Eton Fives, Athletics, Rugby Fives, Table Tennis, Hare and Hounds

Boat Club
Cricket
Rugby
Football
Hockey
Lawn Tennis
Squash Racquets
Eton Fives
Athletics
Rugby Fives
Table Tennis
Hare and Hounds
Boxing
Golf

Wyvern's Club
Kingsley Club [revived 1947-1948]
Law Society
Music Club

No. 4

Articles
Mr Roosevelt at Cambridge by A.C. Benson

Magdalene in the sixties II (1860s) by S.S.

The gourmet's guide to Cambridge - I The Union Society

Reports from the following Clubs and Societies
Boat Club
Hockey
Lawn Tennis
Rugby

No. 5

Notices of Death
Arthur Bovell (11 Nov 1909)
Hon. Clement Francis Cornwall (1910)
William Godson Drew (7 Oct 1910)
John Joseph Halcombe (5 Jan 1910)
James Francis Hatfield-Harter (20 Oct 1910)
Lloyd Warren George Hughes (13 Jun 1910)
Edward Ernest Stock (17 Oct 1910)

Articles
Professor Alfred Newton (1829-1907)

Excavations at Magdalene College during the long vacation, 1910 by F.G. Walker

The new ground [about the purchase of land on Ely Road to be used as sports grounds for football and cricket]

Reports from the following Clubs and Societies
Cricket
Boat Club
Lawn Tennis
Kingsley Club

The College Mission

Owing to Mr Williamson a College Musical Society was formed. Its opening concert was held on 11 Nov 1910 in Hall before a 'fair and select audience'. It was proposed to give two Classical, and one ordinary College Smoker termly. [defunct by 1911 see College Magazine No. 35]

No. 6

Articles
Mr Peskett's portrait (MCWA/A/101)

The gourmet's guide to Cambridge - II The Pitt Club

Reports from the following Clubs and Societies
Musical Society
Kingsley Club
Athletic Sports
Boat Club
Rugby
Football

The College Mission

Report about G.L. Winterbottom (Boat Club Captain) jumping into the river to save J.B.P. Adams (undergraduate at St John's) from drowning

No. 8

Obituary
A.R.T. Momber
Harry Mervyn Lutwyche
James Edward Shaw
Rees Williams

Articles
Biographical notes - 'Degony' Nicholls (Master 1577-1582) and Francis Tallents

The new ground and pavilion

Images
Portrait of Francis Tallents
Drawing of the new cricket pavilion

Reports from the following Clubs and Societies
Kingsley Club
Rugby
Football
Athletic Sports
Boat Club
Cricket

The College Mission

No. 9

Obituaries
John Maunsell Richardson
The Hon. William Lowther
Henry Richard Johnstone-Scott
Charles Crofts Williams
Major-General the Hon. Arthur Henry Henniker-Major
Lord Wandsworth - Sydney James Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth

Articles
A day's climbing on the Welsh mountains

Reports from the following Clubs and Societies
Boat Club
Rugby
Football
Hockey
Kingsley Club

Magdalene Lads' Club [under 'College Notes and News']

No. 10

Obituary
Venerable John Bond

Articles
Cardinal Action

Edward Lyon Berthon [invented nautical instruments and boats that were rejected by the Admiralty but which could have saved likes on the Titanic]

Images
Black and white photo of the portrait of Cardinal Acton MCWA/A/1

Reports from the following Clubs and Societies
Lawn Tennis
Cricket

No. 11

Obituaries
Stracey-Clitherow
Arthur White
Alick William Henry John Nicoll
Clement Gerald Sneyd-Kynnersley
Frank Montague Pope

Articles
Bibliotheca Pepysiana

Images
First Court in 1851
Pepys Building from the Fellows Garden

Reports from the following Clubs and Societies
Boat Club
Athletic Sports
Rugby Club
College Mission
Kingsley Club

No. 16

Obituaries
Wadham Knatchbull
Francis Crawley
Raoul Charles Finch Elsden Everard

Images
Ivory medallion showing Samuel Pepys

Reports from the following Clubs and Societies
Lawn Tennis
Boat Club
Cricket

The Magdalene Lads' Club

No. 19

Lists past and present members of College on service

Obituaries
Robert Drummond Balfour

Killed in action
Walter Henry Charles Cave
George Heremon Wyndham
W.B. Wells Durrant
L.H. Stern
E.R. Coles

Reports from the following Clubs and Societies
Lawn Tennis Club

No. 20

Lists past and present members of College on service

Obituaries
Stuart Alexander Donaldson

Killed in Action
Leslie Herman Berlein
Godfrey John Oswald Bull [further information given in College Magazine, No. 21]
Captain Robert Valentine Harvey
Gerald Kemball Leach
John Child Morris [further information given in College Magazine, No. 21]
George Nash
Reginald William Phillipps
Kenneth Falshaw Watson
Robert Williams [further information given in College Magazine, No. 21]

No. 22

Lists past and present members of College on service

Obituaries
Alfred Thompson Crawshay

Killed in action
Charles Noel Crawford

No. 24

Article
An Eighteenth Century Sermon

Lists past and present members of College on service

Roll of Honour
John Peter Fanius de Salis
Beresford Winnington Hill
Arthur Frederick Hastings Kelk
Thomas Onslow

Obituary
George Gerard Charles Fenwick

News
Cadets of No. 4 Company Garrison Officers Cadet Battalion on 15 January 1916 they became the first Company quartered in Magdalene. Includes list of names of those in the Company who stayed in Magdalene.