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Law Event: The Legal Implications of Brexit

We are delighted to invite Members to attend a virtual Law event on Thursday 28 January. Looking at the legal implications of Brexit, the Master, Sir...

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Careers Event: How to rock your LinkedIn profile and CV clinic

It is a difficult time to be navigating the jobs market, so join us for a webinar to help maximise your LinkedIn profile and get CV and application ti...

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Wine Tasting with Dr Alex Thom

Join Dr Alex Thom, University Lecturer in Theoretical Chemistry and keen oenologist, for a virtual wine tasting to celebrate Samuel Pepys’ birthday (p...

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Professor Brendan Burchell: The Future of Work

What are the good and bad things about having to work for a living, and should we rejoice or lament when new technologies can replace human labour? Pr...

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Reverend Sarah Atkins, College Chaplain

Rhythms for Life

The Chaplain has the best job in Magdalene. As well as the Chapel and pastoral support, I get to promote the College’s communal health. If we’re honest, this usually means getting people together and giving them something to eat. But it’s been over a year now since Evensong was sung in Chapel, or Wednesday crowds came for curry or hot chocolate, and C. S. Lewis’ chair by the fire in A6, has sat empty.
Library and Archives
Mary Astells Book Collection, Magdalene College Cambridge

Mary Astell's Books

During the past year the library staff at Magdalene have adapted to new ways of working and even during its current period of closure the profile of the Old Library has been raised significantly due to the unearthing of Mary Astell’s donation of books. Deputy Pepys Librarian, Miss Catherine Sutherland, researches the history of the collection.
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Magdalene College Fellows' Garden

The Year that Really was a First

It is a custom for a new Master to write some brief reflections on their first year in office. Reflecting on my first year, one thing is clear – whatever I thought it would be like bore no resemblance to reality.
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