Art, identity and the courage to change
When Yeside Linney looks back on her life, she does not describe a straight path. She talks about change: moving between places, expectations and versions of herself, and slowly finding a way to bring them together.
A decade of belonging, ambition and care
When Homerton welcomed its first Medicine students a decade ago, the programme began on a small scale: six students, all arriving through the pool system. Ten years later, the College has ten medical places each year.
Homerton College Boat Club: Fifty years on the Cam
For almost 50 years, Homerton students have been taking to the River Cam in navy blue and white. While some students arrive with years of rowing behind them, most first get into a boat after arriving at Cambridge.
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Two Kindertransport refugees, two Homerton lives
In the space of seven years, two young Jewish refugees arrived at Homerton after being separated from their homes by Nazi persecution. Both went on to spend their working lives alongside people who were feared, rejected or treated as outsiders.
Jean Robinson: A legacy of care, memory and education
When Jean Robinson arrived at Homerton, Cambridge was a city living under the pressures of war. Travel was restricted, blackout curtains were checked nightly and the windows of King’s College Chapel had been removed for safekeeping.
Homerton for Homerton: College and community
Homerton’s story began in Hackney in East London in 1768. Today, Homerton for Homerton is renewing that historic connection, bringing the academic energy, student commitment and convening power of the College into partnership with young people, schools and charities in Hackney.