The College Archive includes a variety of student led clubs and societies, ranging from sports teams to debating groups to purely social socities. Surviving records are mainly in the form of minute books, although there are some team photographs, notably for the Chess Club, invitations and theatre programmes etc. Most photographs are catalogued separately in the CCCC/Ph classification, particularly sporting and May Ball photographs.

The society papers are being gradually listed at file or item level as time allows. The following is a list of clubs and covering dates of archives held in the collection which can be consulted in the archive reading room:

Areopagitities (1938)

Amalgamated clubs (1883-1974)

Bats (1887-1889)

Bene’t Club (1919-2019)

The Benedictine: Corpus Historical Society (1926-40)

Benediction History

Birds 1909

Boat Club

Bursar’s Wine Society

Cambridge Bird Club (1970-1978)

Cambridge Society (2006)

Chess Club (1871-1991)

Classical Society

Corpus Campers Club (1909)

Corpus Christi College Bible Reading (1907)

Corpus Christi College Debating Society (1908)

Corpus Christi College Theologicial Society (1908-09)

Corpus Christi Literarary Society (c.1908)

Corpus Dining Club (1937)

Corpus Fishing Club (1969-2002)

Cricket Club (1835-1985)

Christian Union (CU)

County Club (1896-1897)

Fireflies (1891)

Fletcher Players (1951-2008)

Football

Gordon Square Club (1922-1989)

Gravediggers (1885-2014)

Hockey (1938)

Honest Cods (1904- 1952)

Kaleidoscopes (1881- 1951)

Leckhampton Players (1966-1993)

Literary (1904-1906)

Marlow Society

May Balls (1906-2017)

May Week Concerts (1957-1995)

Musical Society (1896-1919)

Pelican Poetry Society (2009-2018)

Peterhouse and Corpus Historical Society (1908-1910)

The Philologues (1982-1994)

Reading Room (1860-1913)

Rugby Union Football Club (1927)

Society for the Study of English Church Doctrine (c.1908)

The Stephen Hale Society (1963-1994)

The Strawberries (1909-1914)

Shakespeare Reading Society 1882-1950

Sailing Club (1949-1970)

Theological Discussion Society (1894-99)