Our largest ever Reunion Dinner!
Thank you to everyone who attended this fantastic event.
In our Catering Outlets (Garden Restaurant and Red Brick Cafe) the preferred payment options are -
Professor Lord Martin Rees was recognised by the Royal Society as 'arguably the most distinguished theoretical astrophysicist of his generation'.
Professor Alison Young has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Worcester.
Congratulations to our Robinson sailors who achieved success at this season's races
Dr Jeremy Thurlow, Director of Music at Robinson College, celebrates being awarded a Bogliasco Fellowship
Warwick Morris, elected an Honorary Fellow of Robinson in 2011, was awarded an OBE in the King's Birthday Honours List
Robinson students battle for survival in Invasion! An Alien Musical at the Camden Fringe...
Robinson College alumna, Drew Chateau, (Law, 2018) from South London, was one of the two students awarded the first Stormzy Scholarship in 2018
Michael Stevens (Engineering, 2019) has been awarded the Sir George Nelson Prize
Robinson College invites applications for the Baxandall Visiting Fellowship from outstanding scholars who intend to spend a research period in Cambridge
As part of the University-wide July Open Days, Robinson College runs a number of activities.
Congratulations to Robinson Fellow, Professor Carlos Caldas, on being awarded the prestigious Léopold Griffuel Prize
This first item is offered as a tribute to Commander George Coupe, who played a key role in Robinson College for nearly thirty years.
Photograph of David Robinson, aged about 16, probably taken not long after he left Cambridge High School for Boys, now Hills Road Sixth Form College, whose Robinson Theatre was funded by him and is named after him.
Discussions about a site for Robinson College were taking place as early as 1972. The letters shown here [Archive ref.
Outline of proposed Chapel exterior, sketched by Andy MacMillan, architect, in 1977.
Brickhouse and Robinson Drama: images show a flyer for ‘Popcorn’, 2004 (Archive ref. RCCS 5/3/2) and a poster for ‘Translations’, 2006 (Archive ref. RCCS 5/5).
In 2007 the College Archive received an interesting file on the origins and early years of 4 Adams Road from a Mr Melville, a relative of former owners of the house
The Chandrakala & Mansukhlal Shah Building, the new home for the Robinson College Archive, was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sunday, 3 July 2022.
The box labelled RCPP/Robinson/7/6 has always carried an air of enigma about it. When the majority of the collection you work with is typewritten papers from 1970s-80s, two bubble-wrapped, oddly-shaped artefacts do tend to stand out, containing as they do probably the very last thing you would expect to find in the archive of a late-twentieth century Cambridge college
In 1971, our founder David Robinson gave a speech at York racecourse to an audience mostly populated by members of the Jockey Club. Although he left behind few personal papers, we are very fortunate to have in the College Archive the text from which he gave this speech
One area of the College Archive in which there are many gaps is what is loosely termed the 'ephemera' collections - flyers, leaflets, posters, term cards, programmes, tickets, photos, menus, and ma
A rare treat for the College Archive, we were briefly home to the extraordinary model of the College in miniature which was made to celebrate Sir David Robinson's 80th birthday in April 1984. Made
Robinson May Balls have been around since the early 1980s. An event called Castle Carnival was held in 1983, followed by the Barefoot Ball, the first full blown May Ball, in 1984.
We were delighted this week to make a new home in the Robinson College Archive for the College's Foundation Charter (RCGR 1/1/1).
Helena Mennie Shire (1912-1991, literary scholar) was a Founding Fellow of Robinson and had a particular interest in the poetry and music of Scotland 1500-1700.
This year marks a number of anniversaries in connection with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Historic England have announced that Robinson College has been listed at Grade II* by the Department of Digital Media, Culture and Sport.
A Fellow of Robinson College is first author on an article published today in the prestigious Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Robinson College Virtual Donor Day , Sunday 28 June 2020
THE VARSITY MATCHES | TWICKENHAM STADIUM | SATURDAY 25 MARCH 2023
Robinson Fellow, Professor Rachel Oliver, has been awarded £2.5M by the Royal Academy of Engineering to develop her work on porous semiconductors.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this year's Binson Gives!
On International Womens’ Day, Robinson postgraduate student Ruth Jepkemoi tells us about her journey from Kenya to Cambridge.
Robinson alumna Claire Spencer (Theology, 1991) attended the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday 6 May. Below, she shares her experience of this incredible day.
The Robinson Admissions Office was as busy as ever throughout Lent term and the Easter vacation, organising a diverse range of widening participation and outreach activities both virtually and in college.
Robinson alumna Claire Spencer (Theology, 1991) attended the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday 6 May.
Our Undergraduates may have largely gone home but Robinson is anything but quiet.
Robinson College Newsletter - July 2022
The Chandrakala & Mansukhlal Shah Building, the new home for the Robinson College Archive, was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sunday, 3 July 2022.
A statue of Dante Alighieri is now to be found in the garden of 2 Adams Road.
On 11 to 12 July, Robinson held its first law residential course, generously sponsored by Slaughter and May. The residential course was part of our widening participation programme. We welcomed 12 students from across the UK, all of whom were from backgrounds that do not traditionally apply to Cambridge.
Robinson College is delighted to announce the appointment of Will Sims to the post of Director of Choral Music, starting in September this year
Welcoming our first Head of Student Wellbeing & Welfare...Karen Tate
Nick Lomax, Bursars’ Assistant, grabbed a cuppa with Karen and found out a little more about her...
