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Talk: Town vs. gown – Social divides in Cambridgeshire antiquarian life

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

Mariel Rodriguez explores how the 1830s national revival of interest in antiquarianism and archaeology was initially dominated by the University in Cambridge, until residents like Frederick Leach and C. H. Evelyn White created their own advocacy spaces. By the 20th century the non-university antiquarian society was at the forefront of national preservation debates.

£3

AGM and VE Day ‘Bring an object, tell a story’

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

We are sorry but this event has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule it for later in the year. This page will be updated when a new date has been fixed. The society's Annual General Meeting plus a special event to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day To mark the 75th Anniversary of VE […]

£3

VE Day ‘Show an object, tell a story’

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

We would like to invite you to join us for a digital history event. In memory of the 75th Anniversary of VE Day, we will be hosting an online "bring an object, tell a story" event. We are looking for Second World War objects with an interesting five minute (or less!) story attached. A Mill Road […]

Free

Talk: Stories from Mill Road Cemetery

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

Claire Martinsen, member of the Friends of Mill Road Cemetery has a passion for local history and researching the stories within Mill Road Cemetery. She has researched and uploaded more than 250 stories on to the website www.millroadcemetery.org.uk and will share her favourite local stories with us in this talk

Free

Barnwell-born but bound for glory: the forces that made Abbey United

Zoom

Unfortunately this talk has had to be cancelled. We hope to be able to run it at a later date. Barnwell in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – poor, hungry, overcrowded and long vilified by the Victorian middle classes as the haunt of wastrels, ne’er-do-wells and the plain wicked – became the focus […]

Free

Talk: Nick Barraclough – ‘A Disorderly House’

Zoom

The Engineer, The Crown, The Flying Pig, the Broadway, the Radio... and me... The story begins as a cowboy in Pontypool, South Wales comes east to a Hills Road inn, taking in Great Wilbraham on the way. There results quite a lot of violence, a dead body in the Cam and, topically, the avoidance of […]

Free

Talk: My Parents’ Story: from Sylhet to Cambridge

Zoom

Our February talk is from award-winning author, writer and publisher Shahida Rahman. My family has been part of the fabric of Cambridge for over 60 years. My late father was a successful restauranteur who settled on Mill Road. Listen to the story of one of the earliest settlers from East Pakistani (now Bangladesh) in Cambridge.  Shahida was born and […]

Free

Talk: Archives and Digital History

Zoom

For our April event we present three short talks on archives and digital history. Mary Burgess (Cambridgeshire Collection) shares details of what materials the collection holds, and how you can access some of these online. Jim Costin (Cambridge University Library) offers tips and tricks on looking after digital records.Mary Naylor (Cambridgeshire Family History Society) looks […]

Free

AGM and Talk – Who Lived & Worked in Victorian Sturton Town?

Zoom

For our May event we have a short Annual General Meeting, followed by a talk from Helen Weinstein about Victorian Sturton Town. The timeline for the evening is as follows. 7:15pm: The Zoom room is open7:30pm: AGM, a short review of the year from our chair, Lucy Walker, a look ahead, and an opportunity for […]

Free

Talk: Stories from Mill Road Cemetery

Zoom

Mary Naylor recounts Stories from Mill Road Cemetery: as told to the Friends of Mill Road Cemetery For every person buried in Mill Road Cemetery, the website has a message which reads If you have any further information about this person or family, please contact us at Friendsofmillroadcemetery@gmail.com. We are fortunate in that this has led to many people […]

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