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The Spinning House

Ross Street Community Centre Ross Street Community Centre, Ross Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

The Spinning House is the untold story of how Cambridge University locked up women in their prison - and how the town fought to free them. Caroline Biggs will be talking about her new book, The Spinning House, which exposes how the University of Cambridge once imprisoned women suspected of ‘evil.’ Mistakes were made, violence and […]

£3

Cambridge’s Original Green Belt: Our Urban Commons

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What exactly is a common and how have these areas featured in the growth and development of Cambridge? This talk by Gerald Smith will examine how these open spaces were used over the centuries and the way their appearance was influenced not only by the underlying topography but also by diverse groups of townspeople - […]

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