Workshop: Oral History – Capturing Memories, Creating History
This workshop is a taster session to learn the basics about oral history and how to do it.
This workshop is a taster session to learn the basics about oral history and how to do it.
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 […]
Kay Blayney shares the process of bringing history to life in performance.
This workshop is an opportunity to share current research projects.
What is involved in designating heritage landscapes? Allan Brigham will use his research into George Bolton and his warehouses in the Mill Road area to illustrate the conservation issues raised.
Find out more about using photographs for historical research.
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 […]
Mike Petty talks about his free 4000 page Chronicle covering 100 years of Cambridge history.
We 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. […]
Join Mill Road History Society for a creative writing workshop using local history as inspiration.