Many celebratory dinners have occurred within St Anselm Hall including balls, London dinners and reunion dinners.
Below is a collection of material and photographs from the dinners that have occurred overs the years.
Below are photographs of a signed menu from the farewell dinner held for Duncan Armytage in 1933. The signatures include Tom South, the incoming Warden, and two of the Fallen men, Ken Graves and Tom Wood. Amongst the signatory's is also John Smith Roskell, a scholarship student, who became a
professor at the University of Nottingham and then chair of medieval history at the University of Manchester. After graduating J.S. Roskell supported the hall for a further six decades, an association ended only by his death in 1998.
Commemoration Day (which continued until the 1980s) was created by Warden Duncan Armytage, to mark the feast day of St Anselm (21 April) but this meaning was later lost, with records referring to the 'Commemoration of Founders and Benefactors'
This menu, from 1951, also celebrates the 21st Anniversary of the SCR (Senior Common Room). Duncan Armytage, who gave the SCR toast, was its founder and Professor Raper, who replied,was one of the first members.
An Easter term formal event has long been a hall tradition. It began life as the 'Formal Dinner Dance' but have since become the Easter Ball. Each year the Ball has a distinct theme, as decided by the JCR.
This menu comes from the 1993 , when the theme was 'Spaceball 2093'
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