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 […]
Not the Usual Victorian Parlour Evening with Mill Road History Society & Cambridge Folk Club
Come and enjoy the fun!
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 […]
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 […]
The Mill Road History Society invites you to a live Zoom event to remember the remarkable and much missed Allan Brigham who passed away last September. Allan Brigham was one of the founder members of the Mill Road History Society and a valued contributor to Capturing Cambridge, the website where our research is posted https://capturingcambridge.org/. Allan was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
During 2020, Emily Peasgood led Cambridge North Folk Song Project. Peasgood and songwriters Anna Hester and Bob Hines worked online with local people, musicians and poets to create and compile a body of 35 songs and verses that capture the character of north Cambridge today. The project concluded with Songs and Verses from north Cambridge, […]
As part of our events for Open Cambridge 2021 we present a film from Shahida Rahman on the History of Indian Restaurants in Cambridge.
