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2024
27 Jan 2024
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2023
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31 Oct 2023
Teaching citizenship studies is not new – as the debate on civics education a century ago showsoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2023
21 Aug 2023
4 Aug 2023
Housing and transport planning issues from nearly 50 years ago sound depressingly familiaroriginal ↗
23 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023
20 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023
16 Jul 2023
Building houses or creating communities? What contemporary history of Cambridgeshire tells us – 2006original ↗
16 Jul 2023
6 Jul 2023
The 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ+ stall at the Cambridge University Students’ Freshers’ Fair 1972original ↗
23 Feb 2023
The Cambridge Conservatives’ Manifesto for 2010 – a look at some contemporary political historyoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2023
Conservative banquet flops – the Liberal-supporting Cambridge Independent reported with glee! 1860original ↗
9 Feb 2023
How Duce’s pit became worth a fortune – a short tale of land and property in East Cambridgeoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2023
2022
Ludovic Stewart, Cambridge County’s Music Adviser who led a post-war renaissance in community music-makingoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2022
A reservoir or three for Cambridgeshire – solving East Anglia’s water crisis in the late 1960soriginal ↗
26 Dec 2022
British Newspaper Archive uploads over 134,000 pages of newspaper coverage from the old Cambridge Daily Newsoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2022
James Day of the Eurocentres Language School – and his campaign to get a new concert hall for Cambridge – 1970original ↗
17 Nov 2022
New Cambridge council housing in the late 1960s – and cautionary publications from the 1970s on maintenanceoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2022
Cambridgeshire Association for Local History’s hidden secrets from their archive of annual reviewsoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2022
27 Oct 2022
“Sack Stagecoach!” was the cry back in the late 1990s as councillors complained about bus servicesoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2022
Would Cambridge’s turbulent 1980s make for an interesting extended school/college project for teenagers?original ↗
12 Oct 2022
A congestion charge for Cambridge? The County Council tried it in the early 1990s. And in 2007original ↗
2 Oct 2022
Dorothy Enright, the pioneering Principal who revolutionised vocational learning in interwar Cambridge at what is now Anglia Ruskin Universityoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2022
19 Sept 2022
“What have the trade unions done for us?!? Oh yeah – holiday with pay, there is that” 1937.original ↗
16 Sept 2022
King George III is dead! Let the great bell ring! All day! Cambridge 1820 and the Demise of the Crownoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2022
Former Cambridge MP, Cllr Arthur Leslie Symonds speaks at the National Association for Local Government Officers’ Jubilee. 1955.original ↗
31 Aug 2022
Mike Petty’s summary of the 20th Century Lion Yard Redevelopment and multi-storey car park from 1994original ↗
29 Aug 2022
29 Aug 2022
The opening of the Mill Road Library, Cambridge – June 1897 (Part 1 – the library & attendees described)original ↗
28 Aug 2022
Daisy Hopkins vs The University of Cambridge (Part 2 – the verdict from the Ipswich Jury) – 1892original ↗
23 Aug 2022
Daisy Hopkins sues the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University for false imprisonment. March 1892 – Part 1.original ↗
22 Aug 2022
The Cambridgeshire Technical College and School of Art’s comprehensive calendar of classes 1954-55original ↗
19 Aug 2022