Colour photograph of Natasha McDowell, Research Fellow.
A copy of S. Mary Magdalen College. This is a history of the College probably taken from a larger 19th century book on the histories of all Cambridge Colleges. Contains prints of the following engravings:
Magdalene College from the Close
Part of First Court showing the tower and gates
Part of First Court showing the Chapel and Dining Hall
South end of Hall
A copy of Magdalene College. A little view of its buildings and history by A.C. Benson, Master.
Includes a handwritten letter dated 12 July 1954 to 'Fredo' [Alfred de Ledesma] from Colin Methven gifting him the copy and commenting on it and Benson's knowledge of farmers.
Methven's bookplate is on the inside front cover.
Parties: (1) Sir Christopher Wray, (2) Magdalene College
Grant of the rectory and parsonage of Grainthorpe and a tenement and lands called the Grange to endow two fellowships and four scholarships in the name of Sir Christopher Wray, two scholarships in the name of Thomas Parkinson, and one scholarship in the name of Edmund Grindal (Archbishop of Canterbury).
The Wray and Parkinson scholars to be chosen by Sir Christopher Wray in his lifetime and thereafter by his heirs and
the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln from schools at Kirton or Lincoln.
No. 54
Obituaries
Edward Cripps
Michael (Mickey) Dias
Articles
The President's Sermon (N. Boyle)
The Immortal Memory - Pepys and the Wife of Bath (E.H. Cooper)
Maureen Nampijinpa Hudson - Triptych at Cripps Court (D.D. Robinson)
Arthur Tedder - Air Power Maestro (A.R. Thompson)
The Adventures of Aliquis - Richard Marks (1778-1847) (G.W. Atkins)
The Birds of the Fellows' Garden (A.K. Bull)
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