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  • Clare woman elected President of CUWBC
    17/05/2013
    Clare graduate student Esther Momcilovic (PhD History & Philosophy of Science) was elected President of Cambridge University Women's Boat Club this week. Many congratulations! 


  • Clare Through Time: Raymond and Agnes
    1/05/2013
    This month’s ‘Clare Through Time’ looks at the May 1966 production of the opera Raymond and Agnes performed at the Cambridge Arts Theatre...


  • Clare Annual Fund 2013: A record-breaking year!
    29/04/2013
    On behalf of the Master and the entire Clare community, we would like say a heartfelt "Thank You!" to all our alumni who have given or pledged a donation to this year's Annual Fund Campaign. Together you have raised a fantastic £370,000! 


  • 'The Secret of Life!': 60th Anniversary
    26/04/2013
    Dr James Watson (1951, Hon Fellow) returned to Cambridge on Thursday 25 April to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of a paper by himself and Francis Crick, outlining their discovery of DNA. 


  • 2013 Alumnus of the Year
    24/04/2013

    Clare’s Alumnus of the Year 2013, Jon Lane OBE, will be coming to speak at College next Thursday, 2 May, hosted by the Master.



  • Meet the 2013 Telephone Campaign Callers!
    12/04/2013

    Our 2013 Telephone Campaign is well and truly underway! We have a fantastic team of callers this year who have been busy calling hundreds of alumni in the past week; click the link to meet them!



  • Professor Philip Ford 1949 - 2013
    10/04/2013

    It is with great sadness that we report the death of MML Director of Studies, Professor Philip Ford. Philip passed away in the early hours on Monday 8 April, with his family beside him. He had been DoS for MML at Clare since the early 1980's, and was a much loved and respected man. 



  • Attenborough launches Cambridge conservation hub
    5/04/2013
    Sir David Attenborough (1945, Hon Fellow) spoke at the launch of the Cambridge Conservation Campus on Tuesday 2 April, declaring the initiative "crucially important" to the protection of the natural world in the future. 


  • Clare through time: Walking over thither
    3/04/2013

    One of Clare’s most notable 17th Century alumni is John Moore who became Bishop of Norwich and Bishop of Ely and later ‘visitor’ to Clare. Evidence of Moore carrying out his visitorial duties can be seen in the archives through the expenses of his first visitation to the College in 1708.



  • Bach St. John Passion
    8/03/2013

    The Choir join forces with Clare Baroque in a performance of J. S. Bach's St John Passion in aid of Turtle Song.



  • Clare Through Time: College Silver
    6/03/2013
    This month sees the biannual exhibition of the College silver in the Great Hall, curated by Dr. Peter Knewstubb. As such it seemed appropriate to write about the College silver in this month's Clare Through Time....

  • Clare celebrates St David’s Day!
    4/03/2013

    St David’s Day was celebrated in College with a Welsh-themed talk in the Fellows’ Library for students, Fellows and staff given by Dr Fiona Edmonds, Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Lecturer in Celtic History, and Clare’s Fellows’ Librarian.



  • Clare in Oxford walk around Ewelme
    2/03/2013

    The Clare in Oxford walk around Ewelme on Saturday 23rd February was the ninth such venture for Clare alumni and their families living in the Oxford area since the inaugural walk three years ago.



  • Calling all alumni golfers
    26/02/2013

    We are looking for keen alumni golfers of all ages and standards to play against Magdalen College Oxford’s alumni golf club in September…



  • Meet Emily Dudgeon
    20/02/2013

    Emily Dudgeon is a second year undergraduate reading Medicine at Clare. Originally from Edinburgh she has already been recognised as one of Britain’s hopeful athletes for the 2016 Olympic Games...



  • Dr Douglas Hedley to lecture at Heythrop College
    19/02/2013

    Dr Douglas Hedley, Reader in Hermeneutics and Metaphysics, Fellow of Clare, will be speaking on 'Image and Imagination' at the Centre for Philosophy of Religion Lecture Series hosted by Heythrop College, University of London, on Tuesday, 5 March at 5pm.



  • Clare Music: Concert performance of Bach's 'St John Passion'
    21/01/2013
    The Chapel Choir, together with celebrated classical musicians Nicholas Mulroy (1995) and Margaret Faultless (1980), will give a concert performance of J. S. Bach’s St John Passion in the College Hall, on Tuesday 12 March. Tickets are on sale now.


  • Dr Yvonne Barbara Perret Distinguished Lecture
    23/10/2012
    Martin Bean
    Watch the inaugural Dr Yvonne Barbara Perret Distinguished Lecture given by The Vice-Chancellor of The Open University, Martin Bean: 'Looking at Education and the World in New Ways'.


  • Clare Through Time: Trouble in Paradise
    15/10/2012
    Clare College has connections with a number important historical figures, many of them famous but some also infamous. One such character is Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (1654-58). 


  • Nicholas Collon to conduct Wallace & Gromit Prom
    18/07/2012
    Wallace & Gromit
    On July 29 Nick Collon (2001) will lead the Aurora Orchestra in the first ever performance of My Concerto in Ee, Lad, at the BBC Proms debut of much-loved animated characters, Wallace and Gromit.