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Robinson College Grange Road, Cambridge Open daily through July, tickets must be pre-booked in advance on the website. 10 original Edwardian gardens are linked to central wild woodland water garden focusing on Bin Brook with small lake at heart of site. findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/10918/r…

#BinsonGives has officially begun! Today marks the start of our 36-hour Giving Day, during which we're raising vital funds for Robinson's Annual and Student Opportunities Funds. Click the link in our bio to visit the Binson Gives website bit.ly/3ooOT8T

One week to go until the launch of this year's #BinsonGives! Click the link below to read more about what funds we're raising money for this year, and how to claim your favourite spot at Robinson! binsongives.robinson.cam.ac.uk/giving-day/1450

BAFTA award-winning film/TV producer and Robinson alumna Pippa Harris will be promoting her latest film at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge on 12 January. Empire of Light is a love letter to cinema, set in 1980s England. You can your book tickets here: bit.ly/HarrisQandA

Very exciting to hear that Robinson alumnus Robert Webb (English, 1992) is on the Booker Prize jury for 2023!

#OnThisDay 150 years ago Ralph Vaughan Williams was born. Over the years his music has featured in the programmes performed by the Chapel Choir of Robinson College and the College’s solo performers. #OTD #VaughanWilliams #RobinsonCollegeChoir

Launching our Student Book Collecting Prize, open to anyone studying at Robinson College #BookCollections

800 trees and rogue squirrels...this is fabulous, take a listen to Guy talking about our beloved garden bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… @BBCCambs

Robinson College expresses its deep sorrow and regret at the death of Her Majesty The Queen. The College recalls with pride its association with the Queen, in particular Her Late Majesty’s visit to the College on the occasion of its opening. bit.ly/3L11qq4

My parents didn’t go to university, let alone become academics. So, brief reflections on my experience of being the first in my family to navigate academia. V short 🧵

We are delighted to announce that Dr Elaine Freer, Fellow of Robinson College, has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor to be a non-judicial member of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales, following a competition. Read more here: gov.uk/.../sentencing…...

We had a wonderful day yesterday at the Open Day and we are looking forward to welcome many more prospective applicants to the College! Many thanks to our Directors of Studies and student helpers for all their work! For more information, see here -> robinson.cam.ac.uk/prospective-st…

Students on our inaugural @slaughterandmay Law Residential are starting their morning with Prof Alison Young, who is speaking on privacy and free speech, and the balancing of rights within the law.

📢 Neuroscientist and psychologist @DuncanAstle is the first Gnodde Goldman Sachs Professor of Neuroinformatics. This important new post in @psychiatry_ucam has been made possible thanks to a generous endowment from the Gnodde family and Goldman Sachs Gives. 👏

Students from @GrangeHarrow and Norbury Primary Schools visited the College today as part of their collaborative music programme with @harrowschool. They were welcomed by Dr Jeremy Thurlow (Music DoS), who can be seen here introducing the chapel's chamber organ.

Some great discussions were had on the connections between music and emotion, and on the different styles of instrumental music available to us today. Thank you to all the Year 5 and Year 6 students who joined us!

Robinson College Hall and the Gardens are ready for our May Ball guests. Have a great time, enjoy yourselves and tag us into your May Ball posts #robinsoncollegemayball

May Ball view from the Library

Congratulations to Phoebe! Queer Street, a play by Phoebe Deller, Robinson's first-year student of Classics, is staged from 14 June until 18 June at Corpus Playroom in Cambridge. Come and be part of the story of Gee, Zae, Rich, Davie, Kallie and Chad. adctheatre.com/whats-on/play/…

50 years and counting: A conversation with Professors Wole Soyinka, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr - a first-hand view of the long and influential friendship shared by these three eminent thinkers. 23 June, 5pm – 6pm. bit.ly/3mrVeMt.