King's College, Cambridge

When University of Cambridge post-graduates receive their degrees, the streets of Cambridge become a kaleidoscope. But what do all the different coloured hoods mean?

This particular rainbow of recent King's graduates features a variety of degrees, but each graduate is linked.

Doctor Leow Kah Shin (Left) received his PhD in Land Economy, with a dissertation on “Essays on Real Estate Finance and Machine Learning”.

He is also a co-founder of Quantedge Capital, which established the Quantedge Foundation, which in turn launched the Quantedge-Cambridge Masters Scholarships (International) for students with refugee status or from areas of conflict.

The wonderful thing about these photos is that each of the other graduates featured were recipients of the scholarship Kah Shin helped to create.

Joelle came to Cambridge from Syria in 2025, graduating this summer with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies.

Her dissertation was on “The River and the Museum: The Making of French Mandate Cultural Order in Antakya, 1926–1939”.

Joelle is also the founder of the The Water Commons Archives which documents critical spatial histories on water bordering systems in Syria and its neighbouring countries. She is continuing this work post-graduation.

Originally from Ukraine, Sophia received her LLM this summer and aims to work in international arbitration (cross-border disputes). In particular she hopes to contribute to the postwar reconstruction in Ukraine, specifically with regard to the justice system.

Also from Ukraine, Fedir received his MASt in Astrophysics this summer, having focused on studying the distribution of gas around galaxy clusters. Next year, he will be continuing this work with a PhD at King’s.

The Waldburg shires team will be back at King's next week (August 3,4 and 6) to harvest our wildflower meadow.

Ticket link in comment below 🔗

Each year the meadow is mowed by heavy shire horses, using a 100-year-old mower and a traditional hay wain. The reason we use this traditional method (rather than a tractor) is it both lowers carbon emissions and exerts much less pressure on the soil, which protects the delicate structure of the meadow, helping ensure next year's growth.

The harvest is then distributed across Cambridge to make more wildflower meadows, as well as winter feed for local livestock.

If you want to come see the Waldburg Shires team in action, book a Chapel and Grounds tickets and plan to be on site between 10am-1pm August 3,4 or 6.

📷 Lloyd Mann

What was Alan Turing really like?

The ‘father of modern computing’ has an isolated mathematician image, but new research rips that up.

In the final years of his life, Turing wrote a racy short story. Until now, it’s never been transcribed or fully studied.

‘Pryce’s Buoy’, a six-page, scruffily hand-written fragment of a short story, cared for by archivists at King's College, Cambridge, reveals a playful man overcoming trauma and defiantly embracing his homosexuality.

Professor Sarah Dillon’s findings, published today in The Review of English Studies, will surprise anyone who accepts The Imitation Game’s portrayal of Turing.

“We’ve distilled a version of Turing that is a two-dimensional stereotype,” says Dillon. “His short story reveals a very different man: playful, funny, cheeky, literary, and someone who really liked sex.”

Professor Dillon identifies a fellow Bletchley Park veteran as the inspiration behind Turing’s story, and explains how it relates to his own arrest for gross indecency.

Find out more about this short story through the link in the comments 🔗

📸 Photo credits to the National Portrait Gallery for the photo and King's College, Cambridge for the story page

What better way to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of John Dowland, widely recognised as the greatest English composer of lute music and songs, than visiting the Rowe Music Library at King’s guided by the College Librarian?

Find three of Dowland’s most popular songs in the ‘Turpyn Lute Book’, a manuscript compiled around 1610 and given to the College by John Maynard Keynes (KC 1902).

The songs ‘Now, o now’ and ‘Can she excuse my wrongs’ are part of the Late Night Baroque programme on 21 July at the BBC Proms, performed by tenor Laurence Kilsby with the Jupiter Ensemble directed by lutenist Thomas Dunford.

King's College Library, Cambridge

Lutes, Frogs and Teares: Celebrating John Dowland 400 Years on This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of composer and lutenist John Dowland (born ca. 1563) who is widely recognised as the greatest English composer of lute music and lute songs. It g…