CAM: Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Published three times a year in print and online, CAM is a magazine for the 200,000-plus Cambridge alumni around the world.
By just about any metric, it’s Britain’s most successful university magazine. In 2010, it was the first alumni title from outside the United States to win CASE’s Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year, and it has earned regular commendations ever since.
I have been a contributor to CAM since 2009. Here’s a selection of my writing.
▶ WAKING TERROR
The psychology of lifelong exam nightmares
▶ BULL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
When American troops formed their own college
▶ PREPRANDIAL PLEASURES
Why dons and sherry traditionally go together
▶ POP VOX
Mary Beard and others on public intellectuals
▶ FRINGE BENEFITS
The trials of taking the Footlights to Edinburgh
▶ HOT METAL
Student newspapers before desktop publishing
▶ OXBRIDGE (AND CAMFORD)
An etymological history of a troublesome word
▶ WE HAD A BALL
How to put on a May ball at Cambridge
▶ PULLING TOGETHER
Women’s rowing and its struggle for acceptance
▶ THIS HOUSE
Two hundred years of the Cambridge Union
▶ TICKET TO RIDE
The 1965 Commonwealth Expedition to India
▶ FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS
A fond history of Heffers bookstore
▶ 800 YEARS OF HISTORY
A profile of Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
▶ THE LOST KEY
The changing role of the college porter
▶ PHILANTHROPY MATTERS
How benefactors are driving new discoveries
▶ RIOT AT THE GARDEN HOUSE
The protest that landed eight students in prison
A version of ‘Riot at the Garden House’ also appeared in The Independent. CAM is produced by YBM Limited, which holds copyright over these articles.
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University of Cambridge
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Writer, interviewer, copy editor