At the beginning of September, Alison Dickens and her colleague Catherine Collins from Access Cambridge Archaeology led a team of enthusiastic volunteers to excavate the back garden of the David Parr House on Gwydir Street.
Anne Campbell, MP for Cambridge from 1992-2005, will talk about how she managed the important issues for the city.
The curious tale of the building in Willis Road that has housed entrepreneurs, mineral water, typewriters, home computers and more.
Susan Woodall talks about life inside for the women who passed through the doors of this moral reform institution. Preceded by the AGM.
Photo courtesy of the Cambridgeshire Collection.
Join Mill Road History society for a gentle glide through the story of swimming and bathing in Cambridge – from river races to skinny-dipping poets. Doors open at 7pm, the talk starts at 7:30pm. Tea and biscuits served afterwards, fully accessible venue, all welcome.
Dr Helen Geake, well known for being part of Channel 4’s Time Team, will explain how the Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme have revolutionised our views of the past. Thirty years ago, if you found something - even an important archaeological object - there was no systematic recording system. Today archaeological finds made […]
An entertaining evening of fact and fiction, drama and poetry as Eglantyne Jebb takes us for a walk down Mill Road, a place central to her theme and described in detail in her 1906 publication about social issues in Cambridge.
Due to circumstances beyond our control we have had to cancel the scheduled talk "Changing landscapes in Romsey Town", we hope to reschedule it for later next year. In place of that we have something a little different... Come and found out what was actually going on at Mill Road Bridge this summer! Mill Road […]
Duncan Mackay describes exciting projects and turbulent times for one of Cambridge’s favourite family businesses. The story starts in Scotland, via East Road, Cambridge and a deal with wheelwright firm Alsop & Sons in 1912, and reaches as far as Los Angeles. The firm has been involved in several major 20th century developments, including the […]
Maggie Kalenak will talk about love, courtship and engagement in nineteenth century England, considering sources such as love letters, diaries, etiquette manuals, periodicals, novels and the stories of individual couples. For middle-class Victorians finding a spouse was a highly ritualised and high-stakes process.
