What's special about the 11th March? Come along to Mill Road History Society's special pre-Festival talk from Rosie Zanders and discover the unexpected connections between Cambridge events on that date. Rosie Zanders, a local Blue Badge tourist guide for many years, takes a quirky look into Cambridge time and some of the remarkable characters who […]

What exactly is a common and how have these areas featured in the growth and development of Cambridge? This talk by Gerald Smith will examine how these open spaces were used over the centuries and the way their appearance was influenced not only by the underlying topography but also by diverse groups of townspeople - […]

An exhibition unveiled earlier this year revealed the hidden stories of a large number of women from Newnham College, Cambridge, who were quietly recruited for secret work at Bletchley Park in World War II. In this talk Dr Sally Waugh, one of the three curators of the exhibition, will discuss how research identified the women […]