Scope and Contents
The College Archive includes a variety of student led clubs and societies, ranging from sports teams to debating groups to purely social socities. Records are mainly in the form of minute books, although there are some team photographs, notably for the Chess Club., and theatrical items. These are catalogued separately in the CCCC/Ph classification and include photographs of:
• Alcohol and Sausage Society
• Chess Club
• Corpus Squares
• Gravediggers
• Kaleids
• Medical Society
• Military Groups
• Pelicans
• Pink Elephants
• Strawberries
• University Challenge
• Unknown Clubs (possibly sports
College Sports Clubs:
• Athletics
• Cricket
• Football
• Hockey
• Rugby
• Tennis
• Squash
• Swimming
• Swimming and Water Polo
• Volleyball
Boat Club
• First Boat
• Second Boat
• Third Boat
• Henley Regatta
• Head of the River Races
• Fours
• Unlabeled boats
University Teams
• University Boat Club
• University Swimming Team
• University Union Society
Dates
- Creation: 1833 - 2020
Extent
30 archive box(es)
Language of Materials
English
Processing Information
The clubs and society records are currently being catalogued by an archive volunteer, Laura Araújo De Freitas, and will be added to over the course of 2023.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Corpus Christi College Archives Repository
Corpus Christi College
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1RH United Kingdom
archivist@corpus.cam.ac.uk