Academic Year 2023-2024

Michaelmas TermLent TermEaster Term

All dates are Thursdays unless indicated otherwise.

President: Jan MacKinnon (Trinity Hall)

C.U. Heraldic and Genealogical Society was founded in 1950 and C.U. Society of Genealogists in 1954; they were refounded together as “C.U.H.&G.S.” in 1957.

A member of the Federation of Family History Societies

Michaelmas Term, 2023

Saturday, 7th October, 7.00 for 7.30 p.m. – The Accession Banquet
Guest Speaker: David White O.St.J., Garter King of Arms
“Cambridge Aspects of the Coronation”
Clare College
White tie with decorations, or Black Tie

Thursday, 19th October
Dr. Paul Coxon, The Keeper of Ties
“Their Thankless Task: The 1930s Systemisation of Cambridge Academical Dress”

Thursday, 2nd November
Julian Torres H.-Bonilla, Junior Treasurer, 2019-2021
“The De Mauley Window in York Minster: Understanding the Early Law of Arms in England”

Lent Term, 2024

Thursday, 15th February
Richard van der Beek, Honorary Vice-President
“An Almanac of Gablestones: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Buildings and Their Inhabitants”

Thursday, 22nd February
Dr. Duncan Sutherland
“Heraldry, Pomp and Power: The Use of Parliamentary Symbols in Coats of Arms”

Thursday, 29th February
David Broomfield, Vice-President
“The History and Heraldry of the Herberts of Highclere Castle”


Events of previous years


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