Talk

With Eva Clarke.  

With Tony Kirby. Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start. Entrance in Stockwell St. After the talk, we will agree a constitution for the Mill Road History Society and elect officers (ie. Chair and Treasurer). Please look at the draft constitution before-hand if you wish to make comments. If you'd like to get involved in establishing the new Mill Road History Society, […]

Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start. Entrance in Stockwell St. By the Pye History Trust  

Nick Mansfield is Senior Research Fellow in History at UCLan in Preston, but was born and brought up in Sturton Street, Cambridge. His talk Buildings of the Labour movement is based on his 2013 book for English Heritage. It will partly focus on labour movement buildings in the Cambridge area, including Sturton Town Hall (later the Kinema), the Romsey Town Labour […]

Comparing Covent Garden and Hemingford Road

Author Catherine Seymour will be talking about the lives of the Cambridge 'Bedders' following the recent launch of her book on the subject, The Staircase Girls.

As a lead up to the Festival of Ideas, Mill Road History presents a trio of talks on the Festival theme of movement.

In the opening months of the First World War, 1,500 men from Cambridgeshire came forward to serve their country as a battalion in Kitchener's New Army, many from the Mill Road area. Join us to listen to author Jo Costin tell the personal stories of these men.

Victorian Cambridge had a flourishing prostitution economy, one that came to centre on the working-class neighbourhood of Barnwell to the east, extending up Newmarket Road in particular, but taking in East Road and Mill Road. Dr Philip Howell considers the ‘moral geography’ of prostitution in Victorian Cambridge, the relationship between the University authorities and prostitute women, and the place of Mill Road’s inhabitants in this history.