Mill Road History Walk with Cambridge Green Badge Guides
Corner of Mortimer Road and Mill Road 642J+QV Cambridge, United Kingdom10.50am for 11am start, meet at the Mill Road end of Mortimer Rd.
£8 – £10
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Mill Road History Walk with Cambridge Green Badge Guides
Corner of Mortimer Road and Mill Road 642J+QV Cambridge, United Kingdom10.50am for 11am start, meet at the Mill Road end of Mortimer Rd.
£8 – £10
Talk: Mackays – The History of a Local Store
Ross Street Community Centre Ross Street Community Centre, Ross Street, Cambridge, United KingdomDuncan 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 […]
£3
Talk: Courtship and Engagement in Victorian England
Ross Street Community Centre Ross Street Community Centre, Ross Street, Cambridge, United KingdomMaggie 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.
£3
Talk: Town vs. gown – Social divides in Cambridgeshire antiquarian life
Ross Street Community Centre Ross Street Community Centre, Ross Street, Cambridge, United KingdomMariel 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
Workshop: Who Lived Here?
The Bath House The Bath House, Gwydir Street, Cambridge, Cambs, United KingdomWe 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. Mary Naylor leads another beginners workshop to find out who lived in houses in the past, where they came from and what they did. […]
£3
AGM and VE Day ‘Bring an object, tell a story’
Ross Street Community Centre Ross Street Community Centre, Ross Street, Cambridge, United KingdomWe 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 KingdomWe 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 KingdomClaire 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
AGM and Quiz
Our next online event consists of our delayed AGM, followed by a Cambridge/Mill Road themed quiz, which all are invited to attend. 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 anyone to ask questions.7:45pm: The quiz begins. If […]
Free