Events

Emmanuel Society City and Finance Dinner

7:00pm – Haberdashers' Hall, 18 West Smithfield, London, EC1A 9HQ

You’re warmly invited to a special evening hosted by the Emmanuel Society at London’s Haberdashers’ Hall.

This special dinner brings together Emmanuel members working in financial services, fintech, investing, and related sectors.

We are delighted to announce our guest speaker for the evening will be Sarah Pritchard (1995), Deputy Chief Executive at the FCA.

The Master, Doug Chalmers (2021), and Harry Hickmore (2011), Chairman of the Emmanuel Society, will be in attendance and will welcome you to the dinner.

Whether you’re reconnecting with familiar faces or meeting new ones across matriculation years and professional paths, this evening is a wonderful opportunity to share experiences, spark conversations, and enjoy a relaxed evening over a delicious three-course meal with wine.

Numbers for this special dinner are limited and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Members are welcome to attend with a guest, subject to availability.

Supporting students and recent graduates

As is tradition at these dinners, the Society is delighted to invite undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in a career in finance to this special evening. Students attending will have a rare opportunity to meet, network and explore their ambitions with members working in fields they hope to enter.

This is only possible thanks to the generosity of members who choose to sponsor student places. If you’re able, we warmly invite you to support a student or recent graduate by contributing towards their attendance:

• £140 sponsors a full place
• £70 sponsors half a place

Any contributions not used for this event will go towards supporting student and recent graduate attendance at future Emmanuel Society gatherings.

Booking

The cost is £140 per person, which includes a drink on arrival, three courses, wines, and coffee and petit fours.

A limited number of places are available at £70 per person for those who graduated between 2019 and 2025 (inclusive).

Members are welcome to bring a guest.

The dress code for the evening is lounge suits or equivalent.

Book your place. Booking closes on Sunday 1 February 2026.

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Listen In, a talk by Beaty Rubens (1979)

6:00pm – Online, via Zoom

Join us for a talk by Beaty Rubens (1979), an award-winning radio producer who worked at the BBC for 35 years. In this talk, she explains how she researched her book on the impact of early radio on home-life, and shares the thrilling story of an archive discovery which hugely expands our understanding of what it meant for our parents and grandparents to 'Listen In' for the very first time.

In 2025, Bodleian Libraries commissioned an exhibition on Beaty's work on the early 20th-century radio craze. The exhibition was accompanied by a book, entitled Listen In: How Radio Change the Home.

This talk will be chaired by Rosanna Moseley Gore (1979), an author with an interest in social history and exploring identity through memoirs, and a contemporary of Beaty's. There will be time for questions after Beaty's talk.

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Mozart’s World: The Last Symphonies at the Royal Festival Hall: Concert, exclusive tour and reception

5:30pm – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX

The Emmanuel Society invites you to a very special musical experience at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London.

Through the summer of 1788 Mozart was consumed in a burst of inspiration. The result was the three remarkable symphonies that turned out to be his last. Rarely heard together, Robin Ticciati takes us inside Mozart’s bold, stormy and divine creations, performed by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE).

Over the evening, you’ll go inside the production with behind-the-scenes access to the Hall before the performance, meeting some of the musicians. You’ll hear from Harry Hickmore (2011), Chairman of the Emmanuel Society and Development Director for the OAE, who will share his thoughts on the evening’s programme and the unique and radical story of the OAE.

During the interval, you will be invited to a sparkling wine reception with fellow music-loving Emma members.

How to book

Tickets for this event are priced at £70, which includes your seat for the performance, an exclusive behind-the-scenes experience before the concert begins and sparkling wine during the interval at a special reception.

Members are welcome to bring guests along for the evening.

Book your place. Registration closes on Friday 12 February 2026.

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Walking the Mildmay Legacy: Newington Green and Beyond

2:00pm – Outside Canonbury station, Wallace Road, London, N1 2PG

You are invited to join fellow members of Emmanuel College for a fascinating walking tour through 400 years of history around the Newington Green and surrounding Mildmay area, a corner of London deeply connected to the legacy of the college’s founder, Sir Walter Mildmay.

This engaging and accessible walk will explore how the Mildmay name was woven into the fabric of this part of the city, from the historic estate of Sir Walter’s descendants (many of them Emmanuel men) to the 19th-century missionaries and healthcare pioneers who carried the Mildmay name into new realms of social action.

We’ll visit the site of the Mildmay Mission Hospital, born out of the evangelical zeal of William and Catherine Pennefather, whose work with the urban poor and early nursing deaconesses echoed Sir Walter’s own commitment to education, reform, and public service. The tour also takes in Newington Green, a historic hub of dissent and radical thought, home to figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Daniel Defoe, and a place where the values of nonconformity and social justice flourished.

Led by guide Debbie Kent, an alumnus of Open City’s Golden Key Academy, this walk offers a unique opportunity to reflect on the broader impact of the Mildmay legacy – not only in the founding of Emmanuel, but in shaping communities, challenging norms, and caring for the vulnerable.

Whether you're interested in college history, social reform, or simply a good story well told, this promises to be a memorable afternoon.

£25 per person. Members are welcome to attend with one guest.

This event is fully booked. Join the waiting list. You will be contacted if a place comes available.

Places for this walking tour are limited. Please book early to avoid disappointment.

Registration closes on Monday 23 February 2026.

Emma Entrepreneurs London Networking Drinks

5:00pm – Bunghole Cellars, 57 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6DT

Following the success of this informal networking event in September 2025, we're delighted to bring it back for March 2026.

Join fellow Emma entrepreneurs, business owners or executives for an evening of conversation, connection and collaboration in Holborn, London.

Whether you’re running a start-up, scaling a business, exploring your next venture or you have lots of experience in venture creation, this is a chance to build your network within the Emma member community.

Grab a drink at the bar on arrival and come ready to share ideas, swap stories, advise and be advised, and make meaningful connections.

There is no cost to attend but registration is essential: book your place.

This event takes place before our regular Emmanuel Society London Drinks event, taking place in the same venue. We’d love you to stay on after!

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Emmanuel Society London Drinks (3 March 2026)

6:00pm – Bunghole Cellars, 57 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6DT

You are warmly invited to our next London Drinks event. This is a great opportunity for networking and a chance to catch up with fellow Emma members from across the subjects and years. As is tradition, there'll be the chance for all attendees to win a bottle of Emmanuel College port.

You don't need to book a place for this event but, to give us an idea of expected numbers, please do register.

RSVP

Members may choose to sponsor this event, which helps us keep it free for all to attend and provide some drinks. There is an option to sponsor the event on registration. Any funds received will go towards this event and subsequent events for members.

Burnaby Recital: Karolos, playing Mozart Divertimento in E Flat K563

6:15pm – Emmanuel College

Acclaimed string trio Karolos (Graham Walker, Emmanuel's Director of Music, cello; Harriet Mackenzie, violin; Sarah Jane Bradley, viola) performs Mozart's Divertimento in E Flat K563 at this term's Burnaby Recital.

"Expressive ... brilliant ... virtuosic" The Observer
"An absolute joy, the performances little short of ideal, perfect in intonation and ensemble, lively and delicate as required" Gramophone
"Given the top-notch gallery of players, it is only necessary to relate the excellence of the performances, individually impressive and with meaningful interaction“ ***** Editor's Choice, Classical Source

Entry is free on the door, and members are invited to book to dine at High Table afterwards.

Booking for High Table closes on Friday 20 February.

A Japanese Art Journey, a talk by Meher McArthur (1986)

6:00pm – Online, via Zoom

Japanese art historian and curator Meher McArthur (1986) was born in India to a Scottish father and Persian mother and grew up in Scotland, Canada, and England, feeling very out of place. Hoping to go into international business, she studied Japanese at Emmanuel and then lived for two years in Japan, where she fell in love with the country’s art and changed the direction of her life. She became a Japanese art historian, moved to Pasadena, California, where she was a curator at Pacific Asia Museum for 8 year, and has been passionately curating Japanese art exhibitions in museums and galleries and for national tour for over 25 years.

In her new memoir, A Japanese Art Journey: A Curator’s Memoir of Polka Dot Pumpkins, Paper Dolls and Woodblock Prints (Tuttle, 2025), Meher shares her journey through the extraordinary world of Japanese art — from ceramics, swords, prints and textiles to Buddhist art, folk painting, contemporary art, and animation. In this talk based on her memoir, she will demonstrate the power of art, not only to inspire but to illuminate one's place in the world.

This talk will be hosted by Rosanna Moseley Gore (1979). There will be time for questions and discussion after Meher's talk.

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