Frankie Enticknap is an Art History student at Glasgow. She’s been working at the Pembroke Library on and off since 2014. One of her last tasks at Pembroke this summer was to create a display in College using Library material. The display is titled “Another Gaze: the Gender-politics of seeing in twentieth century photography’, and features three female photographers who were working around the same time that women were first…
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Professor Antony Hopkins is a distinguished historian who has written extensively on African history, imperial history, and globalization. His latest book American Empire: A Global History offers a fresh perspective…
Read moreThe Parmee Prize competition is an annual event that offers students a chance to win £2000 to kickstart their business. Richard Parmee (1970) is the driving force behind the prize. He began at Pembroke in the Natural Sciences Tripos, but after two years had migrated to Electrical Sciences in Engineering. This, it transpired, was a good decision, as he did well enough there to begin research in what is now signal processing. However, he also started his first business around this time, and although it took a while to grow, it began to take off after a year or so: “The problem was that by the time I got to the…
Read moreThe Pembroke Politics Society is a platform for interesting and influential speakers and their first talk of 2018 fulfilled the brief perfectly. Lord Chris Smith, Master of Pembroke, spoke on…
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On Saturday the 20th January PCBC held their second annual charity ergathon. The ergathon began last year as a race between the boat clubs of Pembroke College Cambridge and Pembroke…
Read moreJanuary can be a slow month, but if you’re wondering what to do with yourself, wonder no more! Because terms at Cambridge are only eight weeks long they tend to…
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