February's talk is from Hill's Road student Michael Large who has been sketching some of Cambridge's famous, and less famous, buildings. Cambridge is too often seen as nothing but a university city. The town outside the gown is packed full of rich historical, global and personal colour, which I have always wanted to share as […]
The Cambridgeshire Regiment recruited local men from all walks of life, and many served side by side on the field of battle. John Mansfield, and George Bowes were two such men, from different walks of life but both from the Mill Road area. John, decorated for gallantry, was Elsie Palmer’s father and thus connected to […]
Unfortunately this talk has had to be cancelled due to Covid. We hope to reschedule it for later in the year. The AGM will be run at a future meeting, details to be announced. “Fenner’s” is well known in Cambridge, even amongst those who know little about cricket, but being named after the University Cricket […]
Education from Hills Road to Mill Road is an informative and fascinating talk on the history and evolution of schools in the Mill Road area. We hope this will spark memories, inviting discussion about formal and informal education in schools and in the community. The talk will review social and economic factors driving political and […]
This event was originally planned for April 2022 and has now been rescheduled for August. From Gwydir Street to Vancouver – how local history research unravelled an extraordinary story Local resident and former BBC journalist FIONA CHESTERTON will talk about how she came to write a book about what started as a small amateur research […]
Join artist Emma Smith to learn about her artistic inventions, created in collaboration with residents of Cambridge, from future predicting machines to musical instruments that allow you to hear subterranean music. In this special evening of artistic exploration, the artist will share insights into a number of projects across Cambridge that have involved working collaboratively […]
This talk is about the remarkable life and work of Lettice Ramsey, who as a young widow in the early 1930s set up a photographic studio with her professional partner Helen Muspratt in Petty Cury, Cambridge. Ramsey & Muspratt became one of the most celebrated 20th century photographers, and their portraits of the Bloomsbury group and […]
The recent centenary of WW1 provided many opportunities to explore overlooked and forgotten aspects of local history. The 1st Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge treated tens of thousands of returning casualties between 1914 and 1919. The pre-fabricated wooden huts housed up to 1,700 beds, operating theatres, ancillary buildings, a Post Office, shop, cinema and other recreational […]
Our talk for January is by Evelyn Lord and will take place over Zoom. An alms house is a house founded by a charity offering accommodation to poor people. Cambridge is fortunate in having a number of these surviving today with sources that enable us to look at the history of these foundations. Using a […]
For our February talk we are remaining online which means we are able to welcome Tasmanian resident James Boyce to Mill Road History Society. James is the author of Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens (2020) amongst many other award-winning historical books and in this talk he will tell us about the history of […]