The Johnian Blog

As the Lady Margaret Boat Club marks its 200th year, the bicentenary campaign to renovate the boathouse continues to gather momentum.

We spoke with Ed Brewer, an Engineering student at John's (2021), to hear how he got on at the Skyrunning World Tour in Europe over the summer thanks to the Sam Fitzsimmons Travel Award.

The Go Forward, Give Back (GFGB) Garden Party marked the end of the undergraduate journeys of the students who matriculated in 2022, and the beginning of something new.

From gutsy row-overs in blistering heat to well-earned Bumps – and the crowning triumph of another Headship for M1 – LMBC gave everything on the Cam. 

The St John's College gardeners reveal how they keep the grounds looking pristine and share their expert knowledge in this video.

The Frank Merlin detective series by Johnian Mark Ellis (1972) was inspired by his research into the crime wave on the Home Front during World War II

The Choir of St John’s braved the wind to continue the tradition of singing from the roof of the Chapel tower to mark Ascension Day. 

Alumni crews from St John’s enjoyed a nostalgic day rowing together again for the Head of the Cam event followed by a barbecue at the Lady Margaret Boat Club.

A celebrated a palaeoanthropologist and former Fellow of St John’s College, Louis Leakey (1922), is being recognised with a blue plaque on his previous home near Cambridge.

Lament & Liberation features multiple commissions for the Choir conceived with the distinctive environment of St John’s Chapel and organ in mind.

Novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz was the College’s Harper-Wood Creative Writing and Travel Award holder in 1985. Since then, she has written nine novels including You Should Have Known, which was turned into the HBO series The Undoing, as well as bestselling literary thrillers The Plot and The Sequel.

The Beaufort Society’s Spring Meeting took place at the Francis Crick Institute Thursday 20 March.