This workshop is a taster session to learn the basics about oral history and how to do it.
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.
The Mill Road History Society will be at Mill Road Winter Fair in the St. Barnabas Centre in the The Old School behind St Barnabas Church. We will have a number of things to see and do such as: Exhibition of local history Old photographs and maps Mill Road building histories from the History Project […]
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.
Ian Bent and Allan Brigham will run a short workshop introducing you to how to research a building. The information is targeted at researching buildings in the Mill Road area but is nearly all applicable to anywhere in Cambridge. You'll learn about the following topics. The structure of a building report The types of resources you can […]
Jon Harris talks about making his distinctive hand drawn maps of Cambridge.
Kay Blayney shares the process of bringing history to life in performance.
Join us at the St Barnabas Centre for a virtual tour of Mill Road. Julia Ewans, treasurer of the society, will be our guide on a photographic tour up and down Mill Road and back and forth through time. All without leaving your seat! As we view pictures of Mill Road old and new we hope […]
A demanding stranger comes to call. Send him on his way. But wait - is there more to him and his visit than meets the eye? So begins a Chekhov play which has been adapted for the Cambridge stage by award-winning local playwright Paul Crossley. This, together with his version of another Chekhov comedy, will form a double bill of plays re-imagined for the city - and, specifically, the area around Mill Road.
