Most records relating to admissions were destroyed by secretarial action in about 1997. Fortunately the Admissions Tutor for 1980 - 1982 kept duplicates of some of the more important files.
Information on the admission of students prior to this series was recorded in Registers I, II and III [see MCGB/4/1/2-4].
There is an index covering the Registers from 1644-1980 available in the search room.
The series is interrupted from 1967 to 1974 inclusive owing to the unwillingness of the then undergraduates to submit to this exercise [source: Dr R. Hyam].
No matriculation photo was taken in 2020 due to Covid but there was one taken for the 2020 year group in Oct 2021 for those who were available and many travelled. The 2021 photograph was taken at the start of this year, as usual [source: Angie Jewell, Tutorial Administrator].
The photographs include both undergraduates and postgraduates. From the back postgraduates are arranged A-Z by surname followed by undergraduates A-Z by surname.
Before 1987 files were arranged by Tutor. These are divided into two groups:
(1) The integrated files of Ramsey, Vernon-Jones, Salter, Scott and Turner, 1912 - c.1961 (arranged by P. Fitzsimons in 1980).
(2) Then separate runs of files for Babbage, Bennett, Stevens, Grubb, Kolbert, Howarth, Reynolds, Deakin, Turner, Duffy, Field.
Searches before 1987 therefore need to be conducted via the name of Tutor (obtainable for each student from the Admissions Register), or last tutor in the cases of a transfer:
A.S. Ramsey, 1912-1927
V.J. Vernon-Jones, 1927-1945
F.R. Salter, 1927-1945
F.R.F. Scott, 1927-1968
F. McD, C. Turner, 1945-1961
D.W. Babbage, 1946-1974
R.F. Bennett, 1952-1979
J.E. Stevens, 1958-1974
P.J. Grubb, 1963-1974
C.F. Kolbert, 1969-1987
T.E.B. Howarth, 1973-1979
P.E. Reynolds, 1974-2001
B.M. Deakin, 1974-1988
D.M. Turner, 1979-1983
J.E. Field, 1974-1985
E. Duffy, 1980-1993
After 1987 the files were arranged by Matriculation date.
Lists of resident students with their courses. They were originally used to check attendance at Chapel which was compulsory until the Second World War (fines ceased to be levied in 1902).
Chapel Lists from 1960 to 1964 have been annotated by F. R. F. Scott, Fellow and sometime President.
Chapel Lists from the academic year 2019/20 to the present are also available electronically.
These are a series of publications listing members of all the Colleges in the University of Cambridge. They include the addresses for students at Magdalene until 1980.
8 items, photographic prints
Papers relating to the appointment of Masters.
There are three volumes of Master's Books. The first was started by Daniel Waterland (Master, 1713-1740) and the second ends at the death of A. C. Benson in 1925 (Master, 1915-1925). There is then a gap until Henry Willink (Master, 1948–1966) decided to renew the practice and started a third volume. All Masters then contributed to it down to Duncan Robinson (Master, 2002-2012). This third volume is closed and is only available for the Master.
Bills 6 and 7 are not in the bundle but are listed as follows in the Necessary Expenses book:
No. 6 - Shingay Quit Rent: £0 6s 8d
No. 7 - College Letters and Stamps: £0 8s 11½ d
Combination room: £0 15s 0d
In addition to the numbered receipts, further items recorded in the Necessary Expenses Book (MCAD/3/3/3) are:
Cleaning Chapel and Greens = £0 11s 0d
Cleaning Library and Cloisters = £0 7s 6d