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Recording of Linacre lecture, entitled 'Folding Protein: Nature's Origami', given in February 2022 by Professor Sheena Radford, OBE, Astbury Professor of Biophysics and Royal Society Professor at the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology at the University of Leeds, and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s

Lists of benefactors' names for the Senior Dean to read aloud during the annual service to commemorate the College's benefactors.
Reading lists and lists of changes, 2002-2022, transferred to the Archivist electronically and kept as digital files, but also printed out and added to this file.

2 volumes known as the Benefactorum Nomina or Names of Benefactors. The first volume begun in 1838 was initially compiled by William Keeling, Senior Dean, based on the list in SJGR/5/1/2 and other sources. It is marked by Keeling, "for the use of the Dean on Commemoration Days". The volume has approximately 40 pages of benefactors with a considerable amount of detail, all in Latin. Towards the end of the volume, in a later hand, there is a list which for the most part records names only, and it became customary for the Master add to the volume.

The second volume was begun in 2013 is added to every year by the current Master.

Includes: black and white photos of College staff. There is finding aid listing the position and name of each individual.

1923-1959 and 2022
Programmes for plays performed at St. John's College, including productions by the Cambridge Arts Theatre Trust, the Footlights Dramatic Club, and St. John's College School; also includes poster for 'Dante's Virgil: the Tragedy of a More-than-Father', scenes from Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio, directed by Patrick Boyde, 2022

Also includes programmes of productions staged at other locations within Cambridge, including a cycle of mystery plays, performed by the Cambridge Christian Drama Group; "The Last Chronicle of Blaydencroft, or Why go to the Zoo?" by the Young Writers' Group; and Ben Jonson's "Volpone", by the Marlowe Dramatic Society

Material kept by an individual staff member and donated to the archives in 2023. College staff social events (including weddings of staff members and photos of staff being given presents when leaving College); orders of service for services taking place at the College chapel, including memorial services; photos of College including the horse chestnut in the Master's garden being taken down. Also includes some press cuttings and a certificate for a donation to charity of money raised by staff

Includes: menus, table plans, notices, invitations, reply cards and lists. Also includes seating plan for first Foundation Dinner in December 1934.
1936 menu and seating plan donated by Dr Peter Tinkler, from the library of John Eric Tinkler

Speeches made by Fellows on reaching their 80th (and 90th) birthdays, made by invitation at the St John the Evangelist's Day Dinner. The Dinner in 2021 being cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, octogenarian speeches were made at the Domus Day, January 2022. Speeches by:
1) Prof. Louis Mordell (1968)
2) Sir Frank L. Engledow and Claude Guillebaud (1970)
3) Sir Harold Jeffreys (1971)
4) John S. Boys Smith (1981)
5) George Watson and Dr Reginald Prince (2007)
6) Prof. John Emerton (2008) this disc would not play when tried (2022) so access copy could not be made
7) Col. Richard Robinson (2013)
8) Prof. Peter Matthews (2014)
9) Dr Keith Matthews; Prof. James [Jim] Staunton and Prof. Roger Griffin (2015)
10) Dr Andrew Macintosh and Dr Christopher Robinson (2016)
11) Dr D. J. H. [Ben] Garling (2017)
12) Dr Gilbert Lewis and Dr John B. Hutchison (2018)
13) Dr George Reid, Dr Martin Richards, Prof. Nicholas McCave (2022)
14) Prof. Lane (2022)

In-house magazine produced by the College's Communications department containing articles about news and special events in College

1919 and 1946-2022. Notices and orders of service of memorial and funeral services for College members held in the Chapel. Includes order of service for Memorial Service for members of the College and Choir School and College servants who died on active service in the First World War. Also included is a list of those invited to the College's memorial service for those who lost their lives in the Second World War held on 8 Dec 1946; College guidelines and seating plan for memorial services held in Chapel and the order of service for the funeral of Alan Herbert Illingworth Swift held in the Church of St Mary the Great.

Notices and orders of service of memorial and funeral services for College members held in the Chapel, including memorial service for those who died in the First World War, a list of those invited to the College's memorial service for those who lost their lives in the Second World War, and College guidelines and seating plan for memorial services held in Chapel

To augment the provision for the 24 foundation scholars and fund two further scholarships; also founding the Burghley sermons. Also recording the gift of a Bible by Lady Burghley and an agreement between Lady Burghley, St John's, the Haberdashers' Company and others concerning a charitable bequest by Lady Burghley. A gift of plate is recorded in SJAR/5/1/15/1/1 (former reference C13.1).

Poetry by students and staff

Includes programmes, tickets and correspondence.

Choral music sung by the Gentlemen of St John's (formed of the choral and organ scholars of the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge)

Including exhibitions

Audio recording of lecture by Professor Patricia Clavin