Event Start Date: 04 September 2025

Event End Date: 05 September 2025


We are looking forward to welcoming you back for your Reunion! B&B is available and bookable using the code SOME1965. Please note: you will need to input this code before checking availability. If you would like to come to the reunion but need help with the booking costs, you are welcome to apply to the Senior Members Fund for financial assistance (applications to Jackie Watson: jacqueline.watson@some.ox.ac.uk)

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Programme:

Thursday 4th:

  • 11am   Arrival and tea/coffee, then drinks, in the Mary Somerville Room
  • 1pm    Informal buffet lunch in Hall, followed by a group ‘catch-up’ in the Mary Somerville Room
  • 4pm     Afternoon tea in the Mary Somerville Room 
  • 5pm    Art Talk and tour of highlights of the College’s Art collection
  • 6.30    Pre-dinner drinks in the Mary Somerville Room
  • 7pm     Reunion Dinner in Hall, followed by second dessert in the Mary Somerville Room 

Friday 5th:

  • Breakfast is from 8am to 9am
  • 10am   Garden talk and tour (weather permitting)
  • 11.30   Tea and coffee in the Mary Somerville Room, with viewing of the archive exhibition, followed by drinks
  • 1pm     Buffet Lunch in Hall

Adding to your year group booklet – a request for EVERYONE

It has become a tradition since this event started in 1959 to produce a booklet to accompany Golden Reunions, so that people can find out about those in their year group they have lost contact with, whether they can come to the Reunion or not. You would have received your booklet a decade ago and it is a really important part of the College archive. This year, members of your year group have asked for entries in the original booklet to be updated. You will have been emailed with the original booklet, so please could you send any additional information to Jackie Watson (jacqueline.watson@some.ox.ac.uk) by the end of July.

  • Any additional photographs (then or now!)
  • You could write about any aspects of life since Somerville: home and family, any community involvement, travels or moves, changes or developments of your interests and opinions. As always, this is not all about amazing successes in life, but about those things that have been important to you. All lives and experiences are worth reading about!
Further reading?

Jaipur Literature Festival – Special Oxford Session

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12 June 2025
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Jaipur Literature Festival – Special Oxford Session

A summer afternoon tea in Newcastle

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Sunday 20th July 2025
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A summer afternoon tea in Newcastle

Drayton and Mackenzie: Alex Starritt in conversation with Rebecca Jones

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Tuesday 23rd Septrmber 2025
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Drayton and Mackenzie: Alex Starritt in conversation with Rebecca Jones