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Carols in the Bar
17:00 – 18th December 2025
The Betjeman Arms, St Pancras, London, N1C 4QL
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- Mildert Alumni Newsletter – Autumn 2025
A message from the Van Mildert Alumni Association It’s hard to believe it’s been three months since our incredible reunion weekend and 60th Birthday celebrations in Durham. It was a wonderful chance to reconnect with our alumni, celebrate six decades of Mildert history, and perhaps even re-live a student moment or two! Christmas is Coming:… Read more: Mildert Alumni Newsletter – Autumn 2025 - Mildert Reunion Weekend 2024
In July, Mildert came alive to the sounds of the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s, as alumni returned for our annual reunion weekend. The weekend began, as all the best memories do, in Mildert bar. After checking into their college rooms, alumni from throughout Mildert’s 59 years gathered for pizza, conversation and astonishingly cheap beer.… Read more: Mildert Reunion Weekend 2024 - Everyone seems to know the score: Memories of Euro 96 at Mildert
I was lucky to be at Mildert in a golden area for football. I arrived in 1994 and by the time I left in summer 1998 there had been the rise of Fergie time at Man United, Blackburn winning the league and, of course, who can forget Bradford City’s promotion to the Championship in the… Read more: Everyone seems to know the score: Memories of Euro 96 at Mildert - Things Could Only Get Better: Mildert Memories of the 1997 General Election
A long-standing Conservative government beset with scandal, challenged by a resurgent Labour Party led by a centrist leader. But it’s not 2024. It’s 1997, I’m a student at Mildert and things could only get better… 1997 was the most culturally and historically important year in the decade, the summer bookended by this seismic general election… Read more: Things Could Only Get Better: Mildert Memories of the 1997 General Election - Toasting Times by George Weeks
Like all civil servants, my working life relies on snacks. As I entered the office kitchenette holding a lunchtime cheese-and-tomato sandwich, a stainless steel sandwich toaster caught my eye. “Wouldn’t this sandwich be nicer with melted cheese?” I thought to myself. Squeezing the Teflon-coated hotplates together, the scent of melted cheddar cheese (slightly burnt at… Read more: Toasting Times by George Weeks
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