Archive of the month: Marmaduke Ramsay
On 11 th February 1814, Marmaduke Ramsay was admitted to Jesus College. The fifth son of Sir Alexander Ramsay of...
Find out moreOn 11 th February 1814, Marmaduke Ramsay was admitted to Jesus College. The fifth son of Sir Alexander Ramsay of...
Find out moreA diary entry written on 27 th January 1919 records how one young man serving on board the hospital ship...
Find out moreScattered throughout the College’s 16th, 17th and 18th century financial records are multiple payments being made to Waits. But who...
Find out moreEarlier this month, a colleague at Trinity sent the Archives a message to say that they’d walked past the Oxfam...
Find out moreA burgeoning spate of building in the late 1950s and 1960s combined with an underdeveloped planning system led to new...
Find out moreWhen archivist Robert Athol came across a chair in a store room with a plaque attached which read: ‘Here sat Laurence Sterne’, he assumed it was some sort of joke.
Find out moreThe formal period of Public Notice has begun today for the College’s application to the Diocese of Ely to relocate...
Find out moreIn Cambridge, June is usually the time for College May Balls and June Events. Since I wrote the article about...
Find out moreJesus College has submitted an application to the Diocese of Ely to relocate Tobias Rustat’s memorial from our Chapel to a permanent educational exhibition space in College.
Find out moreJoin us to hear from project leader Preston Boyles and Jesus College archivist Robert Athol about the findings of the archaeological dig in Pump Court, and learn how they relate to what we already know about the site.
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