“The Shop Girls, the true story of Cambridge’s own Mr Selfridge who at one time lived in Mill Road.” This is a talk by Ellee Seymour about shop workers who worked in an elegant ladies department store in Cambridge between the 1940s-60s. The store, called Heyworth’s, had all but faded from living memory until Ellee […]
Tamsin Wimhurst, Chair of the David Parr House Trust Find out about progress made during the first year of conservation at David Parr House (“the dirty phase”); what’s been found, and what’s planned for the future. http://davidparrhouse.org/
A talk by Gareth Rees of Oxford Archaeology East about the small 1830s cemetery which was rediscovered and excavated during building work at St Matthew’s School. This talk will be preceded by the Society’s AGM. You can read more about the excavation in the report at https://library.thehumanjourney.net/1677/1/Report%201437_final_LR.pdf
Find out more about the mapping project in Mill Road Cemetery, where volunteers working with the Ordnance Survey aim to record and map precise co-ordinates for every headstone.
How did late 19th/early 20th century radical demands for social justice impact on Cambridge and Mill Road? Dr Deborah Thom introduces our theme with an overview of contemporary campaigns for social change; Mary Burgess will explore Women’s Suffrage in Cambridge and Mill Road; and Antony Carpen will tell us more about Cambridge women who brought […]
On 11 November 1918, at 11am, guns stopped firing and peace broke out. Bells were rung, Cambridge rioted, and the war was over. But men did not return instantly; fighting continued in Russia, the Armistice was not, technically, a peace treaty, and many men would never return.
At the beginning of September, Alison Dickens and her colleague Catherine Collins from Access Cambridge Archaeology led a team of enthusiastic volunteers to excavate the back garden of the David Parr House on Gwydir Street.
Anne Campbell, MP for Cambridge from 1992-2005, will talk about how she managed the important issues for the city.
The curious tale of the building in Willis Road that has housed entrepreneurs, mineral water, typewriters, home computers and more.
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.