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18 Jun 2024: General AdmissionFriday 28 June 2024. Welcome. It will be an honour and a privilege forme to confer your degrees at the Senate-House, and especially significant for meas this will be my first General Admissionas Master. Your admission to your degree

13 Oct 2017: Frederick Charles Davies (1884 - 1917). First World War Roll of Honour. Frederick Charles Davies was born in 1884, the youngest son of Mr. William Davies J.P., the first Mayor of Battersea, and his wife Ellen. He was educated at St Paul’s School

25 Nov 2016: From the Archives: 250 years since Downing wasn’t founded! The 250th anniversary of the death of Sir Jacob Downing, 4th Baronet. 2014 marked the 250th anniversary of a significant event in the history of Downing College. On 6th February 1764, Sir

13 Nov 2023: Downing College Student. Accommodation Handbook 2023–2024. 2. Table of Contents. Table of Contents. 2. 1. Welcome to Downing College. 5. 2 College Accommodation. 6. 2.1 Your Accommodation. 7. 2.2 Furniture, Fittings and Decorations. 8. 2.3

4 Sep 2017: Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy. The following guidance and procedures have been designed to work alongside the University procedure for handling cases of harassment and sexual misconduct:

23 Feb 2021: Film of Downing and Cambridge life, 1928-30, by Air Commodore Iliffe Cozens (1904-1995) A fascinating 30 minute cine film showing student life in Downing and Cambridge between 1928 and 1930, kindly donated to the College in the 1990s by the family

23 May 2022: Plantation Society and Economy: A Case Study of Indentured Labour in Seventeenth Century Barbados’ (PhD Thesis, University of Hull, 1980) https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/2732011.pdf 32 Simmons, Frederick

28 Nov 2016: WWI Roll of Honour: Sydney Garner Bennett (1888 – 1916) Sydney Garner Bennett was born in 1888 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the only son of Henry and Mary Bennett. His father served as a Primitive Methodist Minister at various churches in Suffolk and

24 Sep 2021: Together with his team of PhD students and Postdocs, Nick was able to travel into the Highlands in August 2020 and download crucial data from around volcanoes such as Askja and

17 Jan 2022: 40 YEARS OF WOMEN AT DOWNING COLLEGE. A VIRTUAL ARCHIVE EXHIBITIONDowning College admitted its first twenty-four female students in October 1980, two years after the first female Fellow had been elected. This online exhibition. brings together