Pembroke College, Oxford

🎨 400 Postcards for 400 Years of Pembroke 🖼️

As part of our Access Week residential earlier this summer, our OxNet participants got a chance to get creative between lectures and tutorials, producing these fantastic postcards of iconic scenes around College!

Check out their artistic skills in today’s 400 Hours drop at the link in comments.

📣 It’s your final chance to sign up for tomorrow’s talk from Walter Isaacson (1974) on ‘Lessons of the great innovators, from Leonardo da Vinci to Elon Musk’!

Walter Isaacson is the bestselling author of biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Jennifer Doudna and most recently Elon Musk. He is a professor of History at Tulane University and was CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time.

Register at the link in comments.

And if one Pembrokian involved in Paris 2024 wasn’t enough… 🎨🚣‍♀️

Earlier this year, former Olympic rower Annabel Eyres (1984, Fine Art) was selected to be one of this year’s six Olympian artists. Chosen out of over 130 applicants of former Olympic athletes who are also professional artists, Annabel produced six pieces of artwork depicting six different sports for a special exhibition in Paris.

Read more at the link in comments.

13 years ago, Erin Kennedy (2011, History & English) set foot in a boat for the first time as part of a Freshers Week taster session for Pembroke College Boat Club. Today, she is preparing to compete for Team GB in the upcoming Paralympics as the coxswain of the PR3 Mixed Coxed Four. 🚣‍♀️🏅📣

We sat down with Erin to discuss her “accidental” journey into professional rowing, winning gold at Tokyo 2020, her time at Pembroke and what it’s like preparing for the biggest sporting event in the world.

Read more at the link in comments, and tune in tomorrow to watch her first race!

⏰ Race times:
Heats: 30 Aug, 11:10am
Repechages: 31 Aug, 10:50am
Finals: 1 Sep, 11:30am

📸: Benedict Tufnell

Earlier this month, our OxNet Access Week residential coincided with the 400th anniversary of Pembroke College’s foundation ceremony back in 1624.

Having been founded out of the benefaction of a man keen for more students to attend Oxford, it seemed only appropriate that the day was celebrated amidst our modern-day commitment to access!

Find out more about the day (which included a re-enactment of the original opening ceremony!) and the story of how Pembroke was founded in today’s 400 Hours drop at the link below.

400 Years On: Recreating the Pembroke College Foundation Ceremony 400 years ago, Pembroke College was formally opened as the newest college of the University of Oxford. To celebrate the occasion, we invited our OxNet Access Week residential students to join us in 17th century music, dance, and a re-enactment of the original opening ceremony.

Congratulations to everyone receiving their A Level results today! And for those of you who found out you’re coming to Pembroke, we’re so excited to meet you in October 🤩

But whatever the outcome, we hope you’re so proud of yourself for all the hard work you’ve put in over the past two years, and we know you’ll end up on the right path ❤️

Yesterday marked 400 years since the Foundation Ceremony of Pembroke College back in 1624! 🎉

To celebrate the occasion, our OxNet Access Week participants were treated to a reenactment of the speech given at the original Ceremony, as well as 17th century music and dance led by musical group Passamezzo!

So lovely to be back at Pembroke College, Oxford to celebrate the 400th anniversary of their foundation day.
We read an oration first given by Thomas Browne in 1624, and and provided some 17th Century music and dance.
The event fell during their Access Week, so we persuaded about 100 sixth formers to dance with us.
Thank you to all involved!

Summer finally made it to Pembroke☀️☀️☀️

(Shoutout to the wisteria for having a second go - apparently this is called ‘remontant flowering’, when plants bloom twice in a season due to unusual weather!)

📣400 Hours is back! Today we’re taking a look back at last month’s Pembroke 400 Festival, with a beautiful video showcasing the highlights of the day.

If you couldn’t make it (or you just want to reminisce) you can watch the video at the link below!

https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/400-hours

On 29th June, 1624, Pembroke College received its Royal Charter from King James I, declaring Pembroke the newest constituent college of the University of Oxford. Four centuries later, hundreds of guests gathered across our four quads to celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the College’s foundation.

Today, one month on, join us as we take a look back at the highlights of the day.

Read more at the link below.

An Anniversary Like No Other: Celebrating 400 Years of Research and Impact at the Pembroke 400 Festival On 29th June, 1624, Pembroke College received its Royal Charter from King James I, declaring Pembroke the newest constituent college of the University of Oxford. Four centuries later, hundreds of guests gathered across our four quads to celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the College’s fou...

We recently welcomed our 1950s and 60s alumni back to College for their Decade Gaudy - so what was Pembroke like in the Swinging Sixties?

A time when a trip to the College Library only took you as far as Broadgates Hall in Chapel Quad, when North Quad was brand new (ish - the buildings themselves weren’t!) and when the College was rather more leafy than it is today.

But some things never change - just look at our iconic window boxes in full bloom, just like they are right now! 🌸💐🌻

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1&4: Will R. Rose Ltd.
2&8: ©️Gillman & Soame/The Oxford Mail
3: ©️Gillman & Soame
6: Studio Edmark/Mark Gudgeon

We are delighted to share that Pembroke student Joel Horsman has recently had an article published in the Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal! 👏

Seeking to reshape how we think about the law of estoppel, Joel’s article identifies the rationale of this area of law and explores its relationship to other related doctrines.

👇 Read more about Joel and his article “Starting Afresh: Reformulating and Reconceptualising the Law of Estoppel” on our website below.

Pembroke Student Published in the Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal Seeking to reshape how we think about the law of estoppel, Joel’s article identifies the rationale of this area of law and explores its relationship to other related doctrines. “Starting Afresh: Reformulating and Reconceptualising the Law of Estoppel” was published earlier this month as one of...

It's a 400 Hours day!

Today's slot brings us a poem by English undergraduate Rohit Ghosh, written for the anniversary edition of the JCR's Pink Times.

Read '400 Years in 400 Words' here:
https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/article/400-years-400-words

It certainly feels like years since it’s been here, but here comes the sun!

With our iconic window boxes in full bloom, it’s only fair to give them their own moment 🌸🌹🌼

A look into our camera roll from Saturday…

We had such an amazing time celebrating our 400th birthday at our Pembroke 400 Festival on Saturday 29th June! Perfect weather, fascinating talks, great food, great people, and dozens of different activities ranging from wine tasting to a performance of our College history… what more could we ask for?

More content on its way, so watch this space 👀

We’re excited to announce the world premiere of Tarik O’Regan’s ‘The Wonders We Seek Without Us’ will be live-streamed at 6pm! 🎶

Watch below at 6, or for 48 hours after the concert.

Festival attendees - get ready to join us in St. Aldate’s Church in 20 minutes!

Tarik O'Regan: The Wonders We Seek Without Us | Pembroke 400 Fesitval Join us live for the world premiere performance of a composition by Tarik O'Regan, commissioned to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Pembroke College, Oxfor...

Today marks 400 years since Pembroke College received its Royal Charter from King James I, the beginning of our four centuries of community, research and impact that bring us to the Pembroke we know today.

As the day gets underway, our celebrations are only beginning. Today’s Pembroke 400 Festival will see a range of the most preeminent Pembrokians of our time sharing their own research and impact, from Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty discussing the latest medical advances all the way to current Fellows such as Professor Lynda Mugglestone exploring the real origins of Samuel Johnson’s supposed ‘dictionary desk’.

Whether you’re with us in person today, or raising a glass from afar, we hope you will join us in celebrating this momentous occasion in Pembroke’s history.

It’s Open Day! Come and say hi to our students, our tutors (see our stories for timings!) and our staff who are all here ready to welcome you to Pembroke.

You can take:
- a tour
- a free donut
- a helpful map of Oxford so you don’t get lost
- a cute little Pembroke sticky note pad
- photos of flower boxes to post on your story (has to be done)
- all of the above!

We’re open until 5 so don’t forget to stop by!

🚨 TWO HOURS left to go! 🚨

Thank you to the 140 donors who have given so far - let’s see if we can make it to 150!

Go to https://pembrokecollege.givingday.co.uk/giving-day/1641 to give now!

⏰ There’s just 6 HOURS to go until our Giving Day ends – thank you to everyone who has helped us unlock matched funding so far. Any gift, of any size, counts towards our goal!

If you still haven’t made a gift, help us complete our challenges:

⭐️If 4 more donors under 30 give, we’ll unlock £1,500!
⭐️We’re 26 donors away from our goal of 150 and unlocking £2,500!

Make your gift here: https://pembrokecollege.givingday.co.uk/giving-day/1641

🎊100 DONORS! 🎊

We are thrilled to announce we have reached 100 donors for our first ever Giving Day! Thank you to all who have taken part.

The Giving Day is still running until 9pm today, so if you haven't made a gift yet, click here to do so: https://pembrokecollege.givingday.co.uk/giving-day/1641

🎉 We have raised an incredible £28,000 for Pembroke students so far – join our donor community and DOUBLE this before the end of Pembroke’s Giving Day at 9pm today!

Visit the Giving Page website to make your contribution here: https://pembrokecollege.givingday.co.uk/giving-day/1641

📣 Pembroke’s first ever Giving Day has arrived! 📣

Hear from our students and staff in the video below and explore the Giving Day website here: https://pembrokecollege.givingday.co.uk/giving-day/1641

We’ve already received a few early donations over the last week – will you be one of the first to make a gift today?

36 Hours | Pembroke 400 Giving Day | Pembroke College, Oxford 2024 https://pembrokecollege.givingday.co.uk/giving-day/1641A 36-hour digital giving appeal on 24-25 June in which we ask the entire Pembroke global community to ...