University of Cambridge

Peterhouse, Cambridge's first college, was founded in 1284

Newnham College is one of two extant women's colleges

The Mathematical Bridge over the River Cam (at Queens' College)

The entrance to the original Cavendish Laboratory on the New Museums Site

View over Trinity College, Gonville and Caius, Trinity Hall and Clare College towards King's College Chapel, seen from St John's College chapel whereas on the left, just in front of King's College chapel, is the university Senate House

The President's Lodge at Queens' College

The Bridge of Sighs at St John's College

Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall.

The Old Schools (left) are the administrative centre of the university

Officers of the Regent House, including Vice- Chancellor Borysiewicz, after a graduation ceremony

Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University

Light show on the Senate House, for the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the university

Senate House Passage in the snow with Senate House on the right and Gonville and Caius College on the left

Great Court of Trinity College, dating back to the 16th Century

Percentage of state-school students at Oxford and Cambridge

Results for the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos are read out inside Senate House and then tossed from the balcony

Graduands enter the Senate House at a graduation ceremony

University officials leading the Vice-Chancellor's deputy into the Senate House

The Fitzwilliam Museum, the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge

The boathouse of the Cambridge University Boat Club

Stephen Fry in the Main Chamber of the Cambridge Union

The bridge over the River Cam at Clare College during its 2005 May Ball

Charles Darwin—whose family was also benefactor of Darwin College

The Marlowe portrait, often claimed to be Christopher Marlowe, playwright

The Cavendish Building, Homerton College

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Fitzwilliam Museum

Saint Geminianus, from a pentaptych by Simone Martini (c.1284–1344)

View of one of the museum's entrance halls

Copy K of William Blake's The Ancient of Days, 1794

Life mask of William Blake; plaster cast by James De Ville (September 1823)

Henry Moore, Large Reclining Figure, 1984 (based on a smaller model of 1938), outside the museum in 2004

The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Library

Construction of the main UL building in the 1930s

The University Library (background) and Trinity College's Wren Library (foreground), as viewed from St John's College chapel tower

12th-century manuscript of the Dover Bible, in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Bronze book bollard by Harry Gray in front of Library

Cambridge University Library is the main research library of the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge Union

The Cambridge Union Society, also known as the Cambridge Union, is a debating and free speech society in Cambridge, England, and the largest society in the University of Cambridge.

Colleges of the University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is composed of 31 colleges in addition to the academic departments and administration of the central University.

Peterhouse, Cambridge

St Peter's College, view from Trumpington Street, 1815

The Chapel cloisters, through which Old Court can be seen

I and H staircases, Gisborne Court, Peterhouse

Whittle Building in Gisborne Court, Peterhouse.

Exterior of the Hall, leading to the Deer Park.

William Stone Building, Scholars' Garden

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Part of St Peter's College, view from the private gardens, 1815

Peterhouse is the oldest constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.

Tutorial system

Method of university education where the main teaching method is regular, very small group sessions.

A teacher of a Latin school and two students, 1487

This system is found at the collegiate universities of Oxford and Cambridge, although other universities use this method to various degrees.

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Heraldic emblem of Sidney Sussex College, a porcupine (statant) azure quills collar and chain or, being the crest of the Sidney family

A view of the College from Sidney Street

David Owen, former leader of the Social Democratic Party, now a member of the House of Lords

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth

Carol Vorderman, British media personality

Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

Downing College, Cambridge

The Maitland Robinson Library by Quinlan Terry, completed in 1992.

Downing College Chapel (behind the portico), built in 1951

Downing College boathouse on the River Cam, it was rebuilt in 2000. Here a trailer of rowing boats is shown outside the building.

East Range, Downing College, November 2006

The Paddock, the green space between the trees. The church on the skyline is on Lensfield Road.

North east view of the lawns outside the chapel.

A sundial commemorating the bicentenary of the college

Ai Weiwei Trees, part of a 2016 exhibition at the Heong Gallery

Aitzaz Ahsan, senior Pakistani politician

John Leslie Green, Victoria Cross recipient

Sir Ray Lankester, invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist

Thandiwe Newton, BAFTA award-winning actress

William Philip Schreiner, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony during the Second Boer War

Michael Winner, film director and producer

David Lloyd Jones, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Yong Pung How, former Chief Justice of Singapore

Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 650 students.

Christ's College, Cambridge

Lady Margaret Beaufort, Christ's College Library

The chapel, with a viewing window from the Master's Lodge

Christ's College Boat Club's boathouse on the River Cam

Christ's College Cambridge, Dining Hall, Back

Fellows' Garden, showing rear of Fellows' Building

Third Court: Memorial and Stevenson Buildings

New Court: Lasdun Building, known as "The Typewriter"

Darwin Garden, New Court, w. Darwin statue by Anthony Smith

Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

Homerton College, Cambridge

The Great Hall (1889) with Jane Benham Hay's 'The Florentine Procession' on display.

Olivia Colman (born 1974), Academy Award and BAFTA Award-winning English actress. (Matriculated ; did not graduate)

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CH, CBE (1934–2016) Honorary Fellow. English composer and conductor; Master of the Queen's Music.

Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL (born 1955) Honorary Fellow. British poet and playwright; Poet laureate since May 2009.

William Johnson Fox (1786–1864) English religious and political orator.

Dame Evelyn Glennie, CH, DBE (born 1965) Honorary Fellow. Scottish virtuoso multi-percussionist.

Leah Manning (1886–1977) British educationalist, social reformer, and Member of Parliament (MP).

Tamzin Merchant (born 1987), English actress.

Samuel Morley (MP) (1786–1864) English manufacturer, philanthropist, dissenter, abolitionist, political radical, and statesman.

Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL (born 1952) Honorary Fellow. English poet, novelist, and biographer; Poet laureate from 1999 to May 2009.

Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.