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  "editorialMarkdown": "[Back to Cambridge guide](<https://above.guide/cambridge>)\n\nCambridge’s colleges / an Above Guide story\n\n## The colleges that *shaped Cambridge.*\n\nA defining chapter within the complete city guide—alongside Cambridge’s neighbourhoods, museums, pubs, culture and people.\n\n01 / 35 **The Medieval Foundations**\n\nI\n\nScholars settle by the Cam\n\n### The Medieval Foundations\n\n 1284–1400\n\nFrom Peterhouse in 1284 to Corpus Christi — the only college founded by the townspeople — Cambridge’s first six colleges rise, three of them in the five-year shadow of the Black Death.\n\n 06 institutions\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/peterhouse>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/clare>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/pembroke>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/gonville-and-caius>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/trinity-hall>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/corpus-christi>)\n\nII\n\nKings, queens and chapels\n\n### The Royal Century\n\n 1401–1500\n\nHenry VI stakes his claim with King’s and its chapel, two queens found and refound Queens’, and monastic hostels and a nunnery are remade as colleges along the river.\n\n 05 institutions\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/magdalene>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/kings>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/queens>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/st-catharines>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/jesus>)\n\nIII\n\nFaith remade, colleges refounded\n\n### Tudor & Reformation\n\n 1501–1600\n\nLady Margaret Beaufort’s two foundations open the century; Henry VIII merges two medieval colleges into Trinity; and dissolved friaries become Emmanuel and Sidney Sussex, colleges of the Protestant cause.\n\n 05 institutions\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/christs>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/st-johns>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/trinity>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/emmanuel>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/sidney-sussex>)\n\nIV\n\nTwo centuries without a founding\n\n### The Long Quiet\n\n 1601–1850\n\nAfter Sidney Sussex, no new college for 204 years — Newton’s Cambridge flourishes while the collegiate map freezes, until Downing is wrung out of a contested will and the dissenting academies edge toward the city.\n\n 03 institutions\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/homerton>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/downing>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/westminster-college>)\n\nV\n\nThe university opens its doors\n\n### Reform & the Women’s Colleges\n\n 1851–1900\n\nGirton and Newnham bring women to Cambridge against the grain, Fitzwilliam opens the university to students of modest means, and new theological houses gather at its edges.\n\n 08 institutions\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/fitzwilliam>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/girton>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/newnham>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/ridley-hall>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/westcott-house>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/selwyn>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/hughes-hall>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/st-edmunds>)\n\nVI\n\nGraduates, science and new communities\n\n### Modern Cambridge\n\n 1901–today\n\nThe scientific century builds its own colleges — Churchill as a national memorial, graduate societies from Darwin to Clare Hall, and Robinson, the newest of all, funded by a single gift.\n\n 08 institutions\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/wesley-house>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/murray-edwards>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/churchill>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/darwin>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/lucy-cavendish>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/wolfson>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/clare-hall>)\n\n[Explore the college profile](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/robinson>)\n\n1284—today\n\n### The story is still being written.\n\nCambridge’s colleges remain working communities—not exhibits. Their next chapter is already underway."
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