Mill Road History Society’s annual festive get together with music, songs and stories, featuring musicians from the Cambridge Folk Club, and other entertainers. Booking is essential, please email millroadhistory@gmail.com to reserve your place. There is a suggested donation of £5 per person, payable on the door. The event takes place at the Bath House on Gwydir […]
Friends of Mill Road History the Mill Road Guides, who are all qualified Green Badge guides, are running two walking tours over New Year.
Friends of Mill Road History the Mill Road Guides, who are all qualified Green Badge guides, are running two walking tours over New Year.
Anne Campbell, MP for Cambridge from 1992-2005, will talk about how she managed the important issues for the city.
Mary Naylor will lead a beginner’s workshop about finding who lived in houses on Mill Road, where they came from and what they did. Please bring a laptop if you have one.We will be looking at ‘free to use’ websites and resources at the Cambridgeshire Archives and Cambridgeshire Collection. Booking required; this workshop is limited […]
The curious tale of the building in Willis Road that has housed entrepreneurs, mineral water, typewriters, home computers and more.
Mike Petty talks about his free 4000 page Chronicle covering 100 years of Cambridge history.
A one-woman performance of live music and theatre by acclaimed singer and songwriter Louise Jordan, charting the rise of working-class suffragette Hannah Mitchell from a remote hilltop farm in the Derbyshire moorlands to Manchester city magistrate.
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.
In May 1937, a month after the bombing of Guernica, 4,000 young children were evacuated from Bilbao to Southampton aboard the SS Habana. Through words and music, Rob Garcia (the son of a niño) and Paul McNamara will tell their story
