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”

Date to be confirmed – Eve Logan Lecture
Richard van der Beek, President, 2016-2018
“Gablestones: Heraldic and Otherwise”

Date to be confirmed – The St. Nicholas Feast
College to be confirmed
White tie with decorations, or Black Tie


Events of previous years


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Last updated St. Thomas Aquinas, 2023