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SUMMARY:AGM & Talk: A Summer School of their Own - The Newnham College Summer Schools for Working Women
DESCRIPTION:Between 1922 and 1950 Newnham College and the Workers’ Educational Association ran a pioneering series of residential summer schools specifically to meet the educational needs of working women. Organised largely by women for other women\, these remarkable schools were inter-generational\, inclusive and non-hierarchial. Mary Joannou’s richly illustrated presentation draws on the voices\, reports\, letters and personal testimonies of the  factory workers\, domestic servants and seamstresses who attended\, many of whom came from the ‘distressed areas’ of the country\, as well as the recollections of their teachers. The talk pieces together a fascinating story of women’s creativity\, aspirations and determination to expand their own  educational horizons using materials from the college archives by kind permission of the Principal and Fellows. \n\n\n\nMary Joannou loves finding out more about women’s lives\, literature and history and is Emerita Professor at Anglia Ruskin University attached to the Labour History Research Unit. She was the founder and key organiser of CAMVOTE 100 and involved in securing Blue Plaques in Cambridge to commemorate the lives of Millicent Garrett Fawcett\, Clara Rackham and Leah  Manning. Her biography\, The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham\, Suffragist\, Socialist and Social Reformer was published by Routledge in 2022.  \n\n\n\nThis talk will take place in Ross Street Community Centre\, a fully accessible venue\, and is open to everyone\, with a suggested donation of £3. Note we can now take cardless payments.  \n\n\n\nIt will be preceded by a short Annual General Meeting of the society. \n\n\n\n7pm: Doors Open 7:30pm: AGM7:45pm: Talk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere is no recording of the talk however much of the content can be found in pages 4 to 13 of Women’s History Today\, Spring 2023. \n\n\n\nWomens-History-Today-Spring-2023Download
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/agm-talk-a-summer-school-of-their-own-the-newnham-college-summer-schools-for-working-women/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Around the world with Richarda Morrow-Tait
DESCRIPTION:2024 is the 75th anniversary of the first woman to fly around the world but do you know her name? A blue plaque is being unveiled to commemorate her flight later this year at Marshall’s Airfield. \n\n\n\nRicharda Morrow-Tait (1923 – 1982) known as ‘Dikki’\, was a local girl who was inspired to learn to fly whilst at school in Cambridge. After only 80 hours of flying experience at Marshall’s Airfield on Newmarket Road she took off from Cambridge in her Percival Proctor Mark IV called ‘Thursday’s Child’ with her navigator\, Michael Townsend. After many adventures in many countries including a crash in Canada she returned a year and one day later in her second plane a BT-13 Vultee Valiant called ‘Next Thursday’s Child’. Come and hear Dikki’s story – her connections to Ickleton and Cambridge\, her flight around the world\, and how she still provides inspiration for female pilots today. \n\n\n\nEmma Easterbrook grew up and was educated in and around Cambridge. She was a local in the Mill Road area for nearly 20 years and has recently moved back to the villages. She has had a life-long interest in history and was inspired by a Facebook post by Mike Petty\, creator of the Cambridgeshire Collection\, to re-discover the story behind the first round the world flight by a woman\, and to campaign for a blue plaque to celebrate that achievement.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can watch the recording of the talk here or on our YouTube channel.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/richarda-morrow-tait-1923-1982/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Festival: Does Mill Road Matter? Local History and Museums in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Roger Lilley looks at the relationship between a local history museum and a local history group and the opportunities presented for their interaction. \n\n\n\nRoger will be talking about the Museum of Cambridge\, its history\, trials and tribulations and future development. He’ll be talking about the way it can interact with local history societies and in particular with the Mill Road History Society. He’ll look at their legacy to the Museum\, Capturing Cambridge\, and how the Museum has used that resource to widen its outreach and collect more resources. \n\n\n\nHe’ll also look at new material that the Museum has collected on people and events in the Mill Road area and talk about opportunities to enrich that collection of data further. In comparison\, he will look at other roads\, communities and villages in Cambridgeshire and how the Museum has and continues to play a role in fostering a knowledge of local history. \n\n\n\nHe will ask how communities such as those living in the Mill Road area would like to see the future of the Museum of Cambridge\, and whose responsibility it is ultimately is to ensure that its collection and influence continues into the 21st century. \n\n\n\nRoger is currently the chair of the Trustees of the Museum of Cambridge. He is a former Cambridge primary school teacher with a mixed background in classics\, religious polyphony\, catastrophe reinsurance and environmental campaigning. He’s lived in Cambridge for over thirty years and devoted himself to local history research for the last ten. \n\n\n\nThis talk is a joint venture between the Mill Road History Society and the Museum of Cambridge. Entry is free and open to all. Booking is recommended via an email to bookings@millroadhistory.org.uk but everyone is welcome on the night subject to space. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of Cambridge Festival 2024 run by the University of Cambridge. \n\n\n\nNote the entrance to the Community Centre is on Hazell Street. To reach it from Mill Road walk down Headly Street past the old Library\, turn right onto Hazell Street and then the entrance is on your right. If you arrive after 7:30pm please press the buzzer and we will let you in.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/does-mill-road-matter-local-history-and-museums-in-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:Mill Road Community Centre\, 6 Hazell Street\, Cambridge\, Cambs\, CB1 2GN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Chimney Boy: George Brewster
DESCRIPTION:On a cold February in 1875 George Brewster\, an 11-year-old Chimney Sweep’s ‘apprentice’\, was sent up a boiler chimney at Fulbourn Lunatic Asylum by his master. He sadly suffocated – nothing out of the ordinary for Victorian England – however\, the story afterwards is remarkable!  \n\n\n\nHear Joanna’s story about how she ‘Found George’ and how meeting people along the journey is turning a forgotten story about a young boy into a (soon to be) household name known to all! \n\n\n\nJoanna Hudson is a Communications Manager for the University of Cambridge and\, when not doing her day job and bringing up two kids\, is an amateur historian. \n\n\n\nThis event was presented on Zoom and can be viewed below.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/george-brewster/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240109T193000
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SUMMARY:The Story of Cambridge in One Hole
DESCRIPTION:Excavation in a sewer shaft in central Cambridge revealed evidence from almost the entirety of Cambridge history – and not a few surprises along the way! \n\n\n\nAlison Dickens BA MCIfA is the Director of Granta Heritage Ltd. and has been a professional archaeologist in the region for over 30 years. A Project Manager for the University Archaeological Unit for many years (during which the work at the centre of this talk was carried out)\, she started her own company in 2019 specialising in historic buildings and church archaeology. She became Cathedral Archaeologist at Bury St Edmunds Cathedral in 2020. \n\n\n\nThis event will be held on Zoom. The link will be sent to our Mailing List a few days beforehand.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/the-story-of-cambridge-in-one-hole/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:The Great Plague in Cambridge 1665-1666
DESCRIPTION:Every school child hears about the Great Plague of London but what happened in the rest of the country? For our November talk Dr Evelyn Lord takes us nearly 450 years back to look at the plague’s effect on Cambridge. \n\n\n\nThis is the story of the people who lived\, worked and died in Cambridge during the great plague of 1665-1666. It traces the plague from house to house\, and looks at what happened in the colleges and university as the students went home\, fellows fled to the countryside\, and the university closed. It uses primary sources such as parish registers\, lease books\, diaries and letters as well as state papers\, to show what it was like living in Cambridge at that time. It aims to remind us today that like us those struggling to survive in 1665-1666 were people with the same aspirations\, emotions and sorrow as we have today. \n\n\n\nDr Evelyn Lord was the course director for the University of Cambridge’s Master of Studies in Local History and tutor for local history at the University of Cambridge\, Institute for Continuing Education. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College\, Cambridge\, and is currently chair of the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History and a member of the Cambridgeshire Records Society executive committee. \n\n\n\nThis talk takes place at Ross Street Community Centre which is a fully accessible venue. Doors open at 7pm\, the talk starts at 7:30pm. Admission £3\, all are welcome. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can view the video of the talk below:
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/the-great-plague-in-cambridge/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T193000
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SUMMARY:The Gray Family of Cambridge 
DESCRIPTION:Claire Martinsen will talk about the Gray family – five Cambridge born brothers who achieved world renowned status in the sport of racquets. Indeed it is said ‘there is no record of any family obtaining such a high standard in one sport as that of the Gray family’. Three of the siblings were world racquets champions\, and eldest brother Henry founded the eponymous sports company\, still in business today. How the brothers did it promises to make an interesting evening\, full of Cambridge sporting history. \n\n\n\nClaire has been a member of the Mill Road Cemetery History Group for several years. By day Claire is a successful entrepreneur and runs Breckland Orchard which makes carbonated drinks. She is also a member of the Mill Road WI. \n\n\n\nThis event takes place at Ross Street Community Centre on 10 October 2023 at 7:30pm\, doors open at 7pm\, all are welcome. Admission £3. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can view a recording of the talk below:
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/the-gray-family-of-cambridge/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Talk: Thomas Hobson and his brook – the problem of fresh water in Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:In 1614\, Thomas Hobson founded a Trust and left money in his will to ensure that Cambridge had a permanent fresh water supply. This talk will examine why Cambridge needed a fresh water supply\, who suggested the idea\, where the water came from\, how it came about and who has benefitted from this innovation. \n\n\n\nMax Field was born in Cambridge and went to University in London. He has worked in Yorkshire\, Oxford\, London and finally in Glasgow before retiring in 2013 to Cambridge.  He and his wife live in Trumpington. He retrained as a Green Badge Cambridge Guide and volunteers for The Arts Society Cambridge\, The Society of Cambridge Tourist Guides and helps for The Arthur Rank Hospice and The Museum of Cambridge. He has been a Trustee for Hobson’s Conduit since 2014. \n\n\n\nThis talk takes place at Ross Street Community Centre. Doors open at 7pm and the talk will start at 7:3pm. Full accessible venue. All are welcome\, admission is a suggested £3. \n\n\n\nPlease note unlike many of our other events this talk will not be recorded.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/thomas-hobson-and-his-brook-the-problem-of-fresh-water-in-cambridge/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:AGM & Talk: Frank Fenner - Hero or Villain?
DESCRIPTION:“Fenner’s” is well known in Cambridge\, even amongst those who know little about cricket\, but being named after the University Cricket Ground is currently Frank Fenner’s only legacy. When he died in the late 19th century no obituary was published in local papers. Why? \n\n\n\nNigel Fenner is related to Frank Fenner\, currently writing a book on his life. Nigel arrived in Cambridge in 1981 to train as a teacher at the University\, where he also secured his football Blue. Over the last 40 years Nigel has lived locally\, including just off Mill Road (for a period of 5 years)\, and worked in education\, mostly with vulnerable and challenging young people. You can read more about Nigel at www.cambridgesportstours.co.uk. \n\n\n\nThe talk will be preceded by a short Annual General Meeting. Doors open at 7pm\, the AGM will be at 7:30pm and the talk will start at 7:45pm. All are welcome.  \n\n\n\nThis event takes place at Ross Street Community Centre. \n\n\n\nNote: Nigel will have copies of his book\, Cambridge Sport: in Fenner’s Hands\, for sale and signing at the talk. It is also available for sale on his website https://www.cambridgesportstours.co.uk/book-for-sale. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can now view the recording of Nigel Fenner’s talk here or on YouTube.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-fenners-2/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Talk: The History of the Cambridge Townscape\, 1500 – 2023
DESCRIPTION:In this illustrated talk\, Tony Kirby looks at the changing built environment of Cambridge from the eve of the Reformation to the present day\, using what survives today as a guide to what had happened over the past five centuries as a result of the combined – and often conflicting – activities of the Colleges\, private developers large and small\, architects and local government\, together with the railways and the attempts to deal with growing road traffic in the 20th and 21st centuries. So we shall go from the few surviving late mediæval houses\, through the private affluence and public squalor of the Georgian era\, the activities of Victorian and Edwardian developers and the public and private housing schemes of the 20th century to today’s delights of CB1\, Eddington and Marleigh\, with a quick look at Bar Hill\, Cambourne and Waterbeach. \n\n\n\nTony Kirby was\, before retirement\, Co-ordinator of Strategic and Curriculum Planning at Anglia Ruskin University. He is Acting Co-President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society\, Secretary of the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History and also of the County Advisory Group on Archives and Local Studies. \n\n\n\nThis event takes place at Ross Street Community Centre on 11 April 2023 at 7:30pm\, doors open at 7pm\, all are welcome.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-history-of-the-cambridge-townscape-1500-1914/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230314T210000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Fighting for Women's Rights in Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:Cambridge has been home to a vibrant women’s movement from Suffragette times\, through the 70s onwards\, and continuing today. Yet many women in the city continue to be in a precarious position\, affected disproportionately by any crises such as the rise in the cost of living. \n\n\n\nOn the 14 March 2023\, representatives from Cambridge Women’s Aid\, Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre and Cambridge Women’s Resources Centre\, all based in the Mill Road area\, will talk about the early years of their organisations\, the issues they were set up to tackle\, what they do now and the current services they provide. Come to this talk if you would like to hear more about the fight to secure women’s rights in Cambridge and what this means. \n\n\n\nThe talk will examine whether women’s equality and rights have progressed since the 1960s\, whether responses to violence against women and girls have changed over this time and why safe\, women-only spaces remain relevant today. It will also look at public policy and decision making\, reviewing whether the Government and agencies such as local authorities deliver according to their strategies for women\, particularly when commissioning services. It will ask if public discussions\, e.g. in the media\, cover issues in a gendered way or if women continue to be invisible. \n\n\n\nFinally\, we hope the talk and discussion will demonstrate the tangible benefits to society of ensuring women’s equality and rights and of investment in social infrastructure. \n\n\n\nOur speakers are: \n\n\n\nAngie Stewart\, Chief Executive Officer\, Cambridge Women’s Aid. Since 1977\, CWA provides dedicated and specialist services for women and children affected by domestic abuse. \n\n\n\nNorah Al-Ani\, Director\, Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre. CRCC is a specialist sexual violence organisation\, since 1982\, delivering a range of support services each year to thousands in Cambridgeshire who are survivors of rape\, sexual abuse and sexual violence. \n\n\n\nStef Martinsen-Barker\, Chief Executive Officer\, Cambridge Women’s Resources Centre. Since 1982\, CWRC has provided a welcoming and accessible women’s community space and has a rich history of supporting\, training and encouraging women seeking positive change for themselves and their families. \n\n\n\nThis event takes place at Ross Street Community Centre on 14 March 2023 at 7:30pm\, doors open at 7pm\, all are welcome. \n\n\n\nPlease reserve your tickets at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fighting-for-womens-rights-in-cambridge-tickets-534796700327. Tickets will be available on the door if available.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-fighting-for-womens-rights-in-cambridge/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230214T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
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SUMMARY:Talk: Imperial Mud - The Fight for the Fens
DESCRIPTION:For our February talk we are remaining online which means we are able to welcome Tasmanian resident James Boyce to Mill Road History Society. James is the author of Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens (2020) amongst many other award-winning historical books and in this talk he will tell us about the history of the Fens and how it related to Cambridge and Cambridgeshire. \n\n\n\nThe synopsis for his book is as follows: \n\n\n\nBetween the English Civil Wars and the mid-Victorian period\, the proud indigenous population of the Fens of eastern England fought to preserve their homeland against an expanding empire. After centuries of resistance\, their culture and community were destroyed\, along with their wetland home – England’s last lowland wilderness. But this was no simple triumph of technology over nature – it was the consequence of a newly centralised and militarised state\, which enriched the few while impoverishing the many. \n\n\n\nIn this colourful and evocative history\, James Boyce brings to life not only colonial masters such as Oliver Cromwell and the Dukes of Bedford but also the defiant ‘Fennish’ themselves and their dangerous and often bloody resistance to the enclosing landowners. We learn of the eels so plentiful they became a kind of medieval currency; the games of ‘Fen football’ that were often a cover for sabotage of the drainage works; and the destruction of a bountiful ecosystem that had sustained the Fennish for thousands of years and which meant that they did not have to submit in order to survive. \n\n\n\nThis event will take place on Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent to our mailing list a few days before\, and again on the afternoon of the talk for new subscribers. If you haven’t joined the mailing list or didn’t receive the link then please email us through the Contact form.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-imperial-mud/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230110T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
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SUMMARY:Talk: Housing the Poor – Cambridge Alms Houses
DESCRIPTION:Our talk for January is by Evelyn Lord and will take place over Zoom. \n\n\n\nAn alms house is a house founded by a charity offering accommodation to poor people. Cambridge is fortunate in having a number of these surviving today with sources that enable us to look at the history of these foundations. Using a chronological narrative structure this talk asks the following questions – what was the motivation of the benefactors who founded the alms houses\, how were these funded\, who could live in an alms house and how were they maintained\, was the accommodation in the alms houses better than elsewhere\, and finally how do alms houses fit in with national policies on poverty? In the course of the talk we will meet the alms men and women and those who looked after them. \n\n\n\nBefore retirement Evelyn Lord was Director of the University of Cambridge Masters in Local History. She is now the chair of the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History\, convenor of the Landscape and Local History Research Group\, on the editorial committee of the Cambridgeshire Records Society\, and on the Cambridgeshire Archives advistory group.  \n\n\n\nThis event will take place on Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent to our mailing list a few days before\, and again on the afternoon of the talk for new subscribers. If you haven’t joined the mailing list or didn’t receive the link then please email us through the Contact form. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can watch the event here
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-cambridge-alms-houses/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221108T210000
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SUMMARY:From the Front to the Backs: Revisiting the 1st Eastern General Hospital\, Cambridge - Film & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The recent centenary of WW1 provided many opportunities to explore overlooked and forgotten aspects of local history.  The 1st Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge treated tens of thousands of returning casualties between 1914 and 1919. The pre-fabricated wooden huts housed up to 1\,700 beds\, operating theatres\, ancillary buildings\, a Post Office\, shop\, cinema and other recreational facilities. ‘This small city on the Backs’ stood on the site now occupied by the Cambridge University Library\, and yet – a century later – it seemed to have disappeared from public memory.  \n\n\n\nIn ‘From the Front to the Backs’\, a documentary film (2014\, 36 mins) produced by the University of Cambridge\, Dr Sarah Baylis tells the story of the military hospital and its site and asks how it was possible that a building of such local and national significance should have been so widely forgotten. The film draws on a range of images and archives and includes interviews with local people who help us to remember. \n\n\n\nBut there are still many stories waiting to be uncovered. Stories about the people who worked there. The local businesses and tradespeople who supported it. The families for whom the hospital buildings represented home.  The impact of the Spanish Flu pandemic that coincided with the ending of the War\, with devastating consequences. \n\n\n\nSarah Baylis is a Cambridge-born writer and heritage consultant who works with community groups – helping them to explore and share aspects of their histories. She has a particular interest in the legacy of WW1 and trying to understand its impacts on individuals\, families and communities. \n\n\n\nIn this event we will screen the film and then Sarah Baylis will lead a discussion of the film and its themes.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/from-the-front-to-the-backs-revisiting-the-1st-eastern-general-hospital-cambridge/
LOCATION:St Philips Church\, 185 Mill Road\, Cambridge\, CB1 3AN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221011T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221011T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
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SUMMARY:Talk: A Cambridge Photographer - Lettice Ramsey 1898-1985
DESCRIPTION:This talk is about the remarkable life and work of Lettice Ramsey\, who as a young widow in the early 1930s set up a photographic studio with her professional partner Helen Muspratt in Petty Cury\, Cambridge. Ramsey & Muspratt became one of the most celebrated 20th century photographers\, and their portraits of the Bloomsbury group and 1930s Cambridge spies are still widely reproduced today. In 1938 Muspratt moved to Oxford and the studio continued in both university towns. In the 1950s and 1960s Lettice Ramsey took Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’s wedding photographs (which they hated and kept hidden away) and travelled widely\, including to Cambodia. She worked as a professional photographer almost until her death in 1985 and was described as ‘Cambridge’s First Lady’. Many Cambridge people will still have memories of her\, and perhaps even some of her photographs. \n\n\n\nDr Ann Kennedy Smith is a freelance writer and independent researcher based in Cambridge. Her reviews and essays are published in the Times Literary Supplement\, History Today and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography\, and she was awarded a Women’s History Network Independent Researcher fellowship for 2021-22. \n\n\n\nA special request: If you have any images taken by Ramsey & Muspratt\, or memories of Lettice Ramsey you would like to share\, Ann would love to hear from you. Please contact admin@millroadhistory.org.uk or go to Ann’s ‘Cambridge Ladies’ Dining Society’ blog here: https://akennedysmith.com/
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-lettice-ramsey/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220913T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220913T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221016T145959Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: Emma Smith - Artistic Inventions
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Emma Smith to learn about her artistic inventions\, created in collaboration with residents of Cambridge\, from future predicting machines to musical instruments that allow you to hear subterranean music. In this special evening of artistic exploration\, the artist will share insights into a number of projects across Cambridge that have involved working collaboratively with local residents to create new ways of seeing and experiencing the city. Emma is an award-winning artist based in Cambridge who works internationally. She is current artist in residence for Cromwell Road Public Art Programme. Previous exhibitions include Kettle’s Yard\, Fitzwilliam Museum\, Tate Modern\, Barbican and Whitechapel Art Gallery among many others. \n\n\n\nThis event is free but you will need to book a ticket on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emma-smith-artistic-inventions-tickets-389227940247 \n\n\n\nPhotos:  Emma Smith\, HUNCH\, Parker’s Piece\, 2017\, commissioned by UNIVERSITY ARMS HOTEL. Photography by Toby Peters.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-artistic-inventions/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220809T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220809T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
CREATED:20211128T114839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220911T162225Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: ‘Secrets Never to Be Told’ - RESCHEDULED
DESCRIPTION:This event was originally planned for April 2022 and has now been rescheduled for August. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom Gwydir Street to Vancouver – how local history research unravelled an extraordinary story \n\n\n\nLocal resident and former BBC journalist FIONA CHESTERTON will talk about how she came to write a book about what started as a small amateur research project into a distant cousin called Jessie Underwood.  She wanted to find out more about how she came to inherit thirty-five thousand Canadian dollars from this woman’s son – a couple completely unknown to her and her family.  \n\n\n\nIn her talk\, Fiona will tell how she pieced together the story of Jessie’s life in Cambridge and then in London\, Scotland and Canada with the help of local historians\, the resources of the Cambridge Collection\, and a range of digital archive material. She found out much more than the Canadian authorities ever did\, including the identity of Jessie’s father.  \n\n\n\nFiona will also reveal how memorabilia she was fortunate to receive from Canada\, including photographs and a birthday book\, could be used as additional resources to build up the jigsaw of the life of an ordinary Cambridge woman who kept no diaries and about whom there were few formal records. \n\n\n\nFiona Chesterton lives in the Petersfield ward and came to Cambridge in 2015\, having lived before that for the previous twenty-odd years in a small village near the Cambridgeshire/Northamptonshire border. She had a long career in television\, having been a journalist\, producer and commissioning editor for the BBC and Channel 4.  She is now enjoying writing\, having made several contributions to books and journals on media issues. ‘SECRETS NEVER TO BE TOLD’ her first full-length book was published by the Conrad Press in November 2021\, copies will be available to buy on the night. \n\n\n\nThis talk will take place at Ross Street Community Centre. We ask for a suggested donation of £3 to cover our costs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe video of the talk can be watched on our YouTube channel.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-secrets-never-to-be-told/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220614T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220614T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
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SUMMARY:Talk: Education from Hills Road to Mill Road & AGM
DESCRIPTION:Education from Hills Road to Mill Road is an informative and fascinating talk on the history and evolution of schools in the Mill Road area. We hope this will spark memories\, inviting discussion about formal and informal education in schools and in the community. The talk will review social and economic factors driving political and policy developments to reflect on how things have changed and why. It will consider the impact on children\, young people and families of Mill Road. \n\n\n\nThe speakers Dr. Peter Cunningham and Dr. Melanie Keene are connected with Homerton College. Dr. Cunningham is an Emeritus Fellow\, a historian and educationist with specialist interests in social and cultural history\, histories of childhood and pedagogy\, educational policy and practice\, visual and oral history. His interests extend from curriculum history and teachers’ professional lives and careers\, to the social and cultural history of education in many forms and phases. He has published and contributed to many books including: Beyond the Lecture Hall: Universities and community engagement from the middle ages to the present day; Politics and the Primary Teacher; Education through the Arts for Well-Being and Community: The Vision and Legacy of Sir Alec Clegg and Curriculum Change in the Primary School since 1945: Dissemination of the Progressive Ideal. \n\n\n\nMelanie Keene is the Director of Studies for History and Philosophy of Science at Homerton College\, Cambridge.  Her research focuses primarily on the history of science for children in the 18th and 19th centuries\, particularly in Britain.  In 2015 her first book was published\, ‘Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain’. \n\n\n\nThe talk will be preceded by a short Annual General Meeting (rescheduled from last month’s cancelled event). \n\n\n\nWe ask for an optional donation of £3 for live events to cover the cost of room hire etc. \n\n\n\n7 pm Doors Open7:30 pm AGM7:45 pm Talk and Q&A9 pm Finish \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe video of the talk can be watched on our YouTube channel.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-schools/
LOCATION:Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street Community Centre\, Ross Street\, Cambridge\, CB1 3UZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
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SUMMARY:AGM and Talk: Frank Fenner - Hero or Villain? - CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately this talk has had to be cancelled due to Covid. We hope to reschedule it for later in the year. The AGM will be run at a future meeting\, details to be announced. \n\n\n\n“Fenner’s” is well known in Cambridge\, even amongst those who know little about cricket\, but being named after the University Cricket Ground is currently Frank Fenner’s only legacy. When he died in the late 19th century no obituary was published in local papers. Why? \n\n\n\nNigel Fenner is related to Frank Fenner\, currently writing a book on his life. Nigel arrived in Cambridge in 1981 to train as a teacher at the University\, where he also secured his football Blue. Over the last 40 years Nigel has lived locally\, including just off Mill Road (for a period of 5 years)\, and worked in education\, mostly with vulnerable and challenging young people. You can read more about Nigel at www.cambridgesportstours.co.uk. \n\n\n\nThe talk will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting of the society (see timings below). \n\n\n\nThis event will take place in Fenner’s Cricket Pavilion which can be accessed through the gates into the car park at the top of Mortimer Road. Please note there is no guest car parking at Fenner’s (use Queen Anne Terrace Car Park) and also we’re afraid that there is no accessible access to the Pavilion as it is on the first floor up a flight of steps. \n\n\n\n7 pm Doors Open7:30 pm AGM7:45 pm Nigel Fenner’s talk and Q&A9 pm Finish
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-fenners/
LOCATION:Fenner’s Cricket Pavilion\, Mortimer Road\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
CREATED:20211128T114721Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: Military Town and Gown of Mill Road - two wartime veterans of the Cambridgeshire Regiment
DESCRIPTION:The Cambridgeshire Regiment recruited local men from all walks of life\, and many served side by side on the field of battle. John Mansfield\, and George Bowes were two such men\, from different walks of life but both from the Mill Road area. John\, decorated for gallantry\, was Elsie Palmer’s father and thus connected to David Parr House\, and George was a member of the Bowes family who owned the historic publishing company and bookshop now owned by the Cambridge University Press.  \n\n\n\nThis presentation by Robin James hopes to introduce you to both men and tell you a little bit more about their interesting lives. \n\n\n\nThis talk will take place on Zoom. To join in then please sign up to our mailing list. Alternatively you can watch the live stream on our Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can watch the recording of the talk here or on YouTube.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-the-cambridge-territorial-army-in-ww1/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
CREATED:20211128T114552Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: Sketching Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:February’s talk is from Hill’s Road student Michael Large who has been sketching some of Cambridge’s famous\, and less famous\, buildings. \n\n\n\nCambridge is too often seen as nothing but a university city. The town outside the gown is packed full of rich historical\, global and personal colour\, which I have always wanted to share as a native of the city. Buildings tell the most fascinating stories from our shared histories\, so I have chosen 25 buildings and neighbourhoods from across the city to tell the story of Cambridge\, my home. This ‘Sketching Cambridge’ project\, composed of 25 sketches and written pieces (including Mill Road’s own Mosque and Library\, the former Indian community centre) was part of an EPQ project for my Sixth Form\, Hills Road.  In this talk I’d love to share the process of researching\, writing and sketching the project\, as well as the connections and stories I’ve discovered in the process!  \n\n\n\nYou can see Michael’s sketches on Capturing Cambridge at https://capturingcambridge.org/self-guided-tours-linked-to-capturing-cambridge/sketching-cambridge/ \n\n\n\nThis talk will take place on Zoom\, please sign up to our mailing list to join us\, or you can watch on our Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can watch the recording of the talk here or on YouTube
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-sketching-cambridge/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220111T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
CREATED:20211128T114440Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: ‘Twas on a Monday morning’ - Laundry Work in Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:Local historian Tamsin Wimhurst uncovers the fascinating and often hidden history of the laundresses of Cambridge. \n\n\n\nWhy a talk about laundry and washing?  In 19th century Cambridge there were more women involved in the industry than in any other work. It was a job that they could turn to even during the toughest of times and one that if you could pay someone else to do it for you\, you would. As the century progressed steam laundries began to compete with the washerwomen but eventually even these were gazumped as laundry was brought back into the home and the ‘automatic’ took pride of place in the kitchen. Tamsin Wimhurst will take us through all these changes and hopefully bring back memories that many of us might have of washday. \n\n\n\nTamsin Wimhurst is a Trustee and founder of the David Parr House Charity which was set up in 2014 in order to conserve it and open up the house to the public.  Her first job was as a teacher where she spent many an hour taking her classes to museums and art galleries\, during which time her passion for history and collections grew.  This experience persuaded her to pursue a career in museum education\, curation and project management.  She has worked with a wide variety of communities and organisations in order to help them access their history and encourage an interest in their past.  Personally\, she has researched into a wide variety of themes including Laundry work\, River swimming\, Women workers and Celebrations.  She is a passionate supporter of small independent museums\, with a special interest in the ‘local’ where she sees the nation’s history unfold through the lives of individuals and their families. \n\n\n\nThis event takes place on Zoom. You can sign up to our mailing list to receive the joining details\, or watch live on our Facebook page at https://facebook.com/millroadhistory
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-twas-on-a-monday-morning-laundry-work-in-cambridge/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211012T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
CREATED:20210725T165609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220911T162615Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: Objects from 22 Ainsworth St - the working class world of the Crouch family
DESCRIPTION:A group of several score objects from a working class home in are being donated to the Museum of Cambridge. They were owned by Charles (1867-1912) and Clara Crouch (nee Peacock) (1872-1949) of and some of their 9 children. This survival is rare because it is so well documented and supplemented by family photographs. \n\n\n\nThis illustrated talk will explore the working\, political and cultural life of the Crouch family as it coped with the impact of economic hardship and war in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is given by Professor Nick Mansfield (UCLAN) and Robin Mansfield\, Charles and Clara’s grandsons. \n\n\n\nThe event takes place on Zoom – to join in please sign up to our mailing list. It will also be live streamed on our Facebook page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can watch the recording of this talk here or on YouTube.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-objects-from-22-ainsworth-st-the-working-class-world-of-the-crouch-family/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210910T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210919T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211128T115241Z
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SUMMARY:The History of Indian Restaurants in Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:As part of our events for Open Cambridge 2021 we present a film from Shahida Rahman on the History of Indian Restaurants in Cambridge. \n\n\n\nBritain’s relationship with Indian cuisine has a long history\, dating back over 400 years to the 1600s. In the years between WWI and WWII\, the Indian restaurant community started to expand beyond London. As the number of Asians entering Britain increased so did the demand for more Indian restaurants\, and so business within the Indian cuisine market gathered momentum. \n\n\n\nIt was during the 1950s and 60s when a large influx of Asians migrated to Britain that the Indian restaurant concept started to spread even further throughout the UK. Some settled in Cambridge. The first Indian restaurant was the Kohinoor which opened in 1943 on Mill Road. \n\n\n\nShahida Rahman explores the history of the restaurants in Cambridge and tells her father’s story who established 2 restaurants in the 1960s and 70s. Find out how Indian cuisine has been adapted over the years to suit the English palate.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/the-history-of-indian-restaurants-in-cambridge/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210608T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210608T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220911T162804Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: Stories from Mill Road Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:Mary Naylor recounts Stories from Mill Road Cemetery: as told to the Friends of Mill Road Cemetery \n\n\n\nFor 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 corresponding with us\, sometimes sending us valuable stories and photographs\, sometimes leading us to make further connections or to go down a quite different avenue of research; often the flow of information is two way. Mary Naylor tells us some of the resulting stories. \n\n\n\nThis event will be held on Zoom. If you want to join in then please sign up to the mailing list at https://millroadhistory.org.uk/mailing-list/ – the connection details will be sent to the list a few days before the talk.  \n\n\n\nThe talk will also be streamed on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/millroadhistory from 7:30pm where it can be watched by anyone – no Facebook account needed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can watch a recording of the talk here or on YouTube.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-stories-from-mill-road-cemetery/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210511T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210511T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T181039
CREATED:20210403T104025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220911T162855Z
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SUMMARY:AGM and Talk - Who Lived & Worked in Victorian Sturton Town?
DESCRIPTION:For our May event we have a short Annual General Meeting\, followed by a talk from Helen Weinstein about Victorian Sturton Town. \n\n\n\nThe timeline for the evening is as follows. \n\n\n\n7:15pm: 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: Helen’s talk.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIf you want to join in on Zoom then please sign up to the mailing list at https://millroadhistory.org.uk/mailing-list/. The event will also be streamed on this page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/millroadhistory from 7:30pm. \n\n\n\nYou are of course welcome to join for just the talk or just the AGM or both as you prefer. \n\n\n\nDocuments for the AGM\n\n\n\nAgenda2020 AGM Draft MinutesChair’s ReportDraft AccountsCommittee Members standing for election\n\n\n\nYou can also read the current status of the Building Reports created by the Mill Road History Project and Society. \n\n\n\nReport on Building ReportsList of Building Reports\n\n\n\nWho Lived & Worked in Victorian Sturton Town?\n\n\n\nHelen Weinstein will talk about life\, work and welfare of the people who lived in the area via an illustrated tour of historical sources and stories. \n\n\n\nThe talk will take you from open fields to the coming of the railway and Eagle Iron Foundry\, to the building of the houses and early occupants of skilled working class men and women\, often running their own businesses from home. Helen will share her recent research in the Cambridgeshire Archives to give insights into welfare issues including public health\, sanitation\, and the residents’ activism to fight for clean air\, access to green spaces and growing places\, play parks and allotments. \n\n\n\nThis talk accompanies the ‘FORGE’ Exhibition in partnership with Museum of Cambridge and Cambridge Museum of Technology. FORGE has been created as part of the IronWorks programme of new homes being built by Cambridge Investment Partnership.  The FORGE exhibition can be viewed online at http://resonance-cambridge.co.uk/forge/. \n\n\n\n\nHelen Weinstein\, Director of HistoryWorks\, is the Community Historian for IronWorks. This talk accompanies Helen’s community history project volunteering with Sturton Town’s residents learning together to research the area using original sources.  This next year the project will cover Sturton Town’s streets with entries for the Capturing Cambridge website. For the AGM talk\, the recent research on Hooper Street & Ainsworth Street will be published here: https://capturingcambridge.org/projects/sturton-town/ \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHelen Weinstein thanks Jo Edkins for sharing the horse delivery photo. Helen has researched the histories of local dairies and farms. This is a wonderful photograph of a working horse & wagon delivering milk from Biggs family business known as ‘Sturton Town Dairy’ with 3 milk rounds and the dairy located adjacent to their 89 Sturton Street shop with the Biggs family operating two other shops at 29 Gwydir Street and 123 Fitzroy Street. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can watch a recording of the talk section of the evening here or on YouTube.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/agm-and-sturton-town/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Talk: Archives and Digital History
DESCRIPTION:For our April event we present three short talks on archives and digital history.  \n\n\n\nMary 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 at digitised parish records and what you can learn from them.\n\n\n\nOur presenters will also be able to answer your questions. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will be held on Zoom\, the link will be sent to our mailing list a couple of days before the event starts. It will also be live streamed to our Facebook page\, which can be viewed without a Facebook account. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can watch a recording of the talks here or on YouTube.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/workshop-archives-and-digital-history/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Talk: My Parents' Story: from Sylhet to Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:Our February talk is from award-winning author\, writer and publisher Shahida Rahman. \n\n\n\nMy 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.  \n\n\n\nShahida was born and raised in Cambridge. She currently works at Cambridge Assessment and is a trustee of Cambridge Central Mosque and the Karim Foundation and an advisor at The Museum of Cambridge. With her son Ibrahim she recently launched the Cambridge Muslim Heritage Project to explore the untold stories of Muslims who lived in Cambridge before the 1960s. You can read some of her work on Capturing Cambridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held using Zoom. To take part in the Zoom session and be able to ask questions of Shahida then please sign up to our mailing list. The meeting link will be sent by email in a newsletter a few days before the talk. \n\n\n\nThe meeting will also be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/millroadhistory/ and can be watched there instead. \n\n\n\nThe event is free to watch but if you enjoy it please consider making a donation to our PayPal account\, see the button on the home page of this website.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-my-parents-story-from-sylhet-to-cambridge/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Talk: Nick Barraclough – 'A Disorderly House'
DESCRIPTION:The Engineer\, The Crown\, The Flying Pig\, the Broadway\, the Radio… and me… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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 vaccination. Then a move to the Broadway introduces the radio to Cambridge – back to the Hills Road inn with Cambridge’s own radio station\, Great Wilbraham revisited and that Hills Road inn comes under threat. \n\n\n\nNick Barraclough is a British radio producer\, presenter\, musician and writer\, who is best known for hosting shows related to specialist American music. He has for many years been the presenter of various music shows and documentaries on BBC Radio. \n\n\n\nThis event will be held using Zoom. To take part in the Zoom session and be able to ask questions of Nick then please sign up to our mailing list. The meeting link will be sent by email in a newsletter a few days before the talk. \n\n\n\nThe meeting will also be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/millroadhistory/ and can be watched there instead. \n\n\n\nThe event is free to watch but if you enjoy it please consider making a donation to our PayPal account\, see the button on the home page of this website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can watch a recording of the talk here or on YouTube.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/talk-nick-barraclough-a-disorderly-house/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Barnwell-born but bound for glory: the forces that made Abbey United
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately this talk has had to be cancelled. We hope to be able to run it at a later date. \n\n\n\nBarnwell 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 of well-meaning efforts to improve its lot.  \n\n\n\nNothing raises a community’s spirits quite so much as a successful football team\, and out of Barnwell rose a club that\, in the form of Cambridge United\, would eventually knock on the door of the all-powerful Premier League. \n\n\n\nAbbey United was born in unpromising circumstances but\, drawing on the strength of its people – people who had been shaped by their surroundings and were perhaps influenced by the interventions of philanthropic agencies – grew and went on growing. \n\n\n\nThis talk by Pat Morgan\, of 100 Years of Coconuts\, examines the social and economic background behind the birth of a remarkable club. \n\n\n\nIt will be held using Zoom. To take part in the Zoom session and be able to ask questions of Pat then please sign up to our mailing list. The meeting link will be sent by email in a newsletter a few days before the talk. \n\n\n\nThe meeting will also be live streamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/millroadhistory/ and can be watched there instead. \n\n\n\nThe event is free to watch but if you enjoy it please consider making a donation to our PayPal account\, see the button on the home page of this website.
URL:https://millroadhistory.org.uk/oldevent/barnwell-born-but-bound-for-glory/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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