Talk

Nick Mansfield is Senior Research Fellow in History at UCLan in Preston, but was born and brought up in Sturton Street, Cambridge. His talk Buildings of the Labour movement is based on his 2013 book for English Heritage. It will partly focus on labour movement buildings in the Cambridge area, including Sturton Town Hall (later the Kinema), the Romsey Town Labour […]

Comparing Covent Garden and Hemingford Road

Author Catherine Seymour will be talking about the lives of the Cambridge 'Bedders' following the recent launch of her book on the subject, The Staircase Girls.

As a lead up to the Festival of Ideas, Mill Road History presents a trio of talks on the Festival theme of movement.

In the opening months of the First World War, 1,500 men from Cambridgeshire came forward to serve their country as a battalion in Kitchener's New Army, many from the Mill Road area. Join us to listen to author Jo Costin tell the personal stories of these men.

Victorian Cambridge had a flourishing prostitution economy, one that came to centre on the working-class neighbourhood of Barnwell to the east, extending up Newmarket Road in particular, but taking in East Road and Mill Road. Dr Philip Howell considers the ‘moral geography’ of prostitution in Victorian Cambridge, the relationship between the University authorities and prostitute women, and the place of Mill Road’s inhabitants in this history.

Jon Harris talks about making his distinctive hand drawn maps of Cambridge.

Nick 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. Nick says “Mill Road has been a thread all through my life...I was born there, […]

Where Does Truth Lie? Experiences of myth and reality in India and the UK.

Spies have long been a Cambridge tradition.