“This project has become a visual chronicle of the University today. Howard Guest has that rare gift as a photographer of being able to capture something more than a simple likeness; his images are lively impressions of the people they catch, posed or unaware, as they go about their different occupations. As a prelude to our octocentenary celebrations I can think of no better way than this to portray our University through the people who make it what it is.”
Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Master of Magdalene College, 2008

A selection of these photographs was originally shown in the Mellon Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge between June and September 2008 as part of the celebrations of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Cambridge.