Homerton College, Cambridge

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These moments are what it’s all about 🥹✨

At Homerton we know the importance of community, and there’s no better feeling than celebrating your achievements with the ones you love. 

Here are some magic moments from today’s Graduation Day, as graduands celebrate with peers at Homerton before heading to the Senate House to receive their degree🎓

Congratulations to everyone graduating today, we couldn’t be more proud! 🎉

Homerton College was transformed into the wonderful world of Winnie-the-Pooh as we celebrated a Hundred Years of a Hundred Acres! 🍯🌳
 
The celebrations included:

🐝 A private viewing of the original Winnie-the-Pooh manuscripts at the Wren Library
🐝 Pooh-sticks on the River Cam
🐝 A Pooh-themed ‘smackerel’ of afternoon tea
🐝 ‘The Hundred Acre Wood That Was’ Nature Trail, linking much-loved characters from the Hundred Acre Wood with the animals that would once have roamed prehistoric Homerton
🐝 Academic talks and panel discussions, including from Professor Peter Hunt and Kathryn Aalto
🐝 Much much more!
 
Take a look through the photos to see just some of the fun we got up to celebrating the birthday of a beloved bear  🎉💛

🖼️ Art with a purpose, beyond our walls

Homerton's Art Collection exists to be seen, not stored — and right now three of its works are helping tell a powerful story of artists who united against fascism and war, and stood for peace, democracy and art for all.

Nan Youngman and Betty Rea, both founding members of the Artists' International Association, understood that art is never neutral. Their work is attuned to land, community and lived experience, surfacing the forces through which we come to understand the places we inhabit.

That story is now at the heart of Comrades in Art: Artists' International Association 1933–56 at , Eastbourne - the most comprehensive exhibition ever dedicated to the AIA, running until 18 October 2026.

🎨 Nan Youngman — Flowerpiece (1948), Above Aberdare (1962), Ebenezer Chapel (1970)
🎨 Betty Rea — Girl with a Bird (1950), Mother and Two Children (1950s)

Sharing works like these isn't incidental. It's part of how Homerton thinks about its collection: as something to circulate and put into public conversation, both within the College and well beyond it.

Homerton's Art Curator Eddie Ade Akin puts it simply: Youngman and Rea "did not simply reflect society, they actively shaped the terms on which it could be seen."

Read more 🔗 https://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/homerton-lends-comrades-art-towner-eastbourne

⚽ HOMERTON FOOTIEFACTS ⚽

Homerton were already kicking a ball around before Manchester City were even called Manchester City 😱

Back in 1893-94, football as a serious fixture of College life. That same year, 1894, Homerton made the big move to Cambridge.

Meanwhile, a certain Ardwick Association Football Club up north was just about to rename itself... Manchester City ⚽🔵

We're not stopping there. Several current Premier League and EFL clubs didn't even exist yet when Homerton were already organising matches:

⚒️ West Ham United (founded 1895 as Thames Ironworks)
🍒 AFC Bournemouth (founded 1899 as Boscombe FC)
🔵 Brighton & Hove Albion (founded 1901)
🔵 Chelsea (founded 1905)

Homerton's first match on Cambridge soil was played on Parker's Piece in March 1894, against a Mr F.W. Morris's XI, and our first proper college fixture was a win over Fitzwilliam Hall that February, which "really opened our football account at Cambridge" 🙌

Just imagine it: if we'd carried on down that road, we could've been lifting the Prem trophy by now instead of degree certificates 🏆📚 Some sacrifices had to be made 😅

But we're glad we stuck with in higher education!