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"title": "Cambridge City Council Architect Gordon Logie calls for a pedestrianised town centre. 1964", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/28/cambridge-city-council-architect-gordon-logie-calls-for-a-pedestrianised-town-centre-1964/", "published_at": "2021-05-28T21:40:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd9-f1cb-70fb-ba44-6e51e0cdeefc", "title": "The view of a busy newly elected Cllr Mrs Jean Barker – before she became famous – 1964", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/27/the-view-of-a-busy-newly-elected-cllr-mrs-jean-barker-before-she-became-famous-1964/", "published_at": "2021-05-27T14:37:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd9-f1cb-70fb-ba44-6e51e0f31143", "title": "The Cambridge Independent on mid-19thC Emigration to the USA and to the UK’s colonies", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/25/the-cambridge-independent-on-mid-19thc-emigration-to-the-usa-and-to-the-uks-colonies/", "published_at": "2021-05-25T11:48:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd9-f1cb-70fb-ba44-6e51e0fa5bd9", "title": "Tories Riot in Cambridge on Queen Victoria’s Birthday – and get smashed up by workingmen when they tried again the next day. 1839.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/21/tories-riot-in-cambridge-on-queen-victorias-birthday-and-get-smashed-up-by-workingmen-when-they-tried-again-the-next-day-1839/", "published_at": "2021-05-21T21:33:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd9-f1cb-70fb-ba44-6e51e11de07b", "title": "Liberal/Whig MPs George Pryme & Thomas Spring Rice threatened by Tory gang. 1837.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/20/liberal-whig-mps-george-pryme-thomas-spring-rice-threatened-by-tory-gang-1837/", "published_at": "2021-05-20T21:07:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd9-f1cb-70fb-ba44-6e51e1d3d629", "title": "Village College Pioneer Henry Morris in defence of local government. 1955", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/19/village-college-pioneer-henry-morris-in-defence-of-local-government-1955/", "published_at": "2021-05-19T21:37:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd9-f1cb-70fb-ba44-6e51e274ad2c", "title": "A century of Chinese students in Cambridge. The Bull Hotel, 1925.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/a-century-of-chinese-students-in-cambridge-the-bull-hotel-1925/", "published_at": "2021-05-18T17:29:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd9-f1cb-70fb-ba44-6e51e34f083a", "title": "Opening of Cambridge’s first modern water works. 1855", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/17/opening-of-cambridges-first-modern-water-works-1855/", "published_at": "2021-05-17T21:04:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd9-f1cb-70fb-ba44-6e51e430b563", "title": "The Cambridge radical press & the fight for democracy: 1841", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/the-cambridge-radical-press-the-fight-for-democracy-1841/", "published_at": "2021-05-16T21:43:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd9-f1cb-70fb-ba44-6e51e51e0390", "title": "Capt Robert Falcon Scott RN of The Antarctic at Cambridge Guildhall. 1905", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/capt-robert-falcon-scott-rn-of-the-antarctic-at-cambridge-guildhall-1905/", "published_at": "2021-05-15T22:14:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd9-f1cb-70fb-ba44-6e51e5cc783d", "title": "Professor Henry Fawcett and the Elementary Education Act 1870", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/12/professor-henry-fawcett-and-the-elementary-education-act-1870/", "published_at": "2021-05-12T23:36:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdd-9c22-7344-b4e0-48f584a3f563", "title": "The importance of the secret ballot – Cambridge Liberals learn the hard way. 1859", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/02/the-importance-of-the-secret-ballot-cambridge-liberals-learn-the-hard-way-1859/", "published_at": "2021-05-02T21:13:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdd-9c22-7344-b4e0-48f5851f9e93", "title": "Cambridge Chartists fail to convince the local press. April 1848", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/02/cambridge-chartists-fail-to-convince-the-local-press-april-1848/", "published_at": "2021-05-02T17:39:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdd-9c22-7344-b4e0-48f585da5508", "title": "Dr Hugh Dalton’s speech to trade unionists on May Day 1920 on Parker’s Piece.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/05/01/dr-hugh-daltons-speech-to-trade-unionists-on-may-day-1920-on-parkers-piece/", "published_at": "2021-05-01T15:06:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdd-9c22-7344-b4e0-48f5861cb3ff", "title": "The death of John Charles Horobin of Homerton College, July 1902.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/the-death-of-john-charles-horobin-of-homerton-college-july-1902/", "published_at": "2021-04-26T12:45:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdd-9c22-7344-b4e0-48f5869de4df", "title": "The opening of Morley Memorial Primary School – purpose-built for Homerton College, Cambridge – Part 2", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/04/25/the-opening-of-morley-memorial-primary-school-purpose-built-for-homerton-college-cambridge-part-2/", "published_at": "2021-04-25T18:34:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdd-9c22-7344-b4e0-48f587939180", "title": "The opening of Morley Memorial Primary School – purpose-built for Homerton College, Cambridge – Part 1", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/the-opening-of-morley-memorial-primary-school-purpose-built-for-homerton-college-cambridge/", "published_at": "2021-04-24T21:59:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdd-9c22-7344-b4e0-48f587a764aa", "title": "The lost theses of the Cambridgeshire Collection", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/04/19/the-lost-theses-of-the-cambridgeshire-collection/", "published_at": "2021-04-19T20:41:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdd-9c22-7344-b4e0-48f587e066c6", "title": "Did Cambridge town have no history between the English Civil War and the Great Reform Act of 1832?", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/04/10/did-cambridge-town-have-no-history-between-the-english-civil-war-and-the-great-reform-act-of-1832/", "published_at": "2021-04-10T23:30:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdd-9c22-7344-b4e0-48f588b51f24", "title": "Arbury council estate built without community facilities. 1965", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/03/27/arbury-council-estate-built-without-community-facilities-1965/", "published_at": "2021-03-27T19:53:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdd-9c22-7344-b4e0-48f58969f4ef", "title": "The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/the-demise-of-the-once-mighty-cambridge-and-district-co-operative-society/", "published_at": "2021-03-12T21:56:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-0bb7-71db-b3f7-c6d6eab7bbb4", "title": "Mrs Pankhurst faces down rowdy Cambridge undergraduates. 1910", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/mrs-pankhurst-faces-down-rowdy-cambridge-undergraduates-1910/", "published_at": "2021-02-16T23:32:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-0bb7-71db-b3f7-c6d6eaed1959", "title": "Thug burns down possible venue for a possible Cambridge Atheist Tabernacle Choir. 1986.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/02/09/thug-burns-down-possible-venue-for-a-possible-cambridge-atheist-tabernacle-choir-1986/", "published_at": "2021-02-09T23:14:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-0bb7-71db-b3f7-c6d6ebbb23c8", "title": "The history of Alex Wood Hall – by the late Mayor Cllr John Durrant. 06 Sept 1985", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/02/08/the-history-of-alex-wood-hall-by-the-late-mayor-cllr-john-durrant-06-sept-1985/", "published_at": "2021-02-08T17:47:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-0bb7-71db-b3f7-c6d6ec9dbbeb", "title": "The decline and fall of The Beaconsfield Club – Petersfield, Cambridge 1982.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/02/08/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-beaconsfield-club-petersfield-cambridge-1982/", "published_at": "2021-02-08T15:39:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-0bb7-71db-b3f7-c6d6ed74076d", "title": "Mayor Foster slammed the Tories for being “Naughty, naughty…very naughty!” Cambridge Market Hill 1823", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/mayor-foster-slammed-the-tories-for-being-naughty-naughty-very-naughty/", "published_at": "2021-02-06T17:25:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-0bb7-71db-b3f7-c6d6ee558440", "title": "Prof George Pryme MP – The man who smashed the Rutland stranglehold on Cambridge", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/prof-george-pryme-mp-the-man-who-smashed-the-rutland-stranglehold-on-cambridge/", "published_at": "2021-02-05T20:24:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-0bb7-71db-b3f7-c6d6eec935a6", "title": "“You can’t live there! It’s against regulations!” Cambridge’s housing crisis of 1946.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/you-cant-live-there-its-against-regulations-cambridges-housing-crisis-of-1946/", "published_at": "2021-02-03T23:54:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-0bb7-71db-b3f7-c6d6ef5e2c89", "title": "Labour’s Freda and David Hardman demand council takeover of privatised public utilities. 1938", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/27/labours-freda-hardman-demands-council-takeover-of-privatised-public-utilities-1938/", "published_at": "2021-01-27T22:45:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-0bb7-71db-b3f7-c6d6f016e912", "title": "Cllr Robert Davies – MP-candidate for Cambridge Labour Party, 1964.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/cllr-robert-davies-mp-candidate-for-cambridge-labour-party-1964/", "published_at": "2021-01-24T22:01:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-0bb7-71db-b3f7-c6d6f0cdddd5", "title": "3,000 people protest against plans for an enlarged Cambridgeshire County Council. 1960. Spoiler. They lost.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/3000-people-protest-against-plans-for-an-enlarged-cambridgeshire-county-council-1960-spoiler-they-lost/", "published_at": "2021-01-24T18:51:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-446c-7189-993c-6e4b0f1e90f7", "title": "Cambridge University blocks Silver Street Railway Station. 1847.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/cambridge-university-blocks-silver-street-railway-station-1847/", "published_at": "2021-01-24T15:15:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-446c-7189-993c-6e4b0f4dad4f", "title": "Lost Cambridge and the General Strike of 1926 – when thousands of undergraduates rose up against the workers", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/17/lost-cambridge-and-the-general-strike-of-1926-when-thousands-of-undergraduates-rose-up-against-the-workers/", "published_at": "2021-01-17T20:31:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-446c-7189-993c-6e4b0f818b35", "title": "Rev William Boothby Selbie of Emmanuel Congregational Church & the Labour Movement.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/rev-william-boothby-selbie-of-emmanuel-congregational-church-the-labour-movement/", "published_at": "2021-01-14T23:32:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-446c-7189-993c-6e4b0fa24e23", "title": "James Essex, architect of the old Cambridge Guildhall, and the Great Stone Bridge of Cambridge", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/james-essex-cambridge-guildhall-and-the-great-stone-bridge-of-cambridge/", "published_at": "2021-01-08T23:54:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-446c-7189-993c-6e4b108eaf7b", "title": "When Keynes, Jebb, and Darwin appeared on a public platform to defend free trade against new Tory tariffs. Cambridge 1910.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/04/when-keynes-jebb-and-darwin-appeared-on-a-public-platform-to-defend-free-trade-against-new-tory-tariffs-cambridge-1910/", "published_at": "2021-01-04T14:03:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-446c-7189-993c-6e4b1098e389", "title": "Cllr Clara Rackham slams pointless Labour branch meetings.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/cllr-clara-rackham-slams-pointless-labour-branch-meetings/", "published_at": "2021-01-03T19:12:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-446c-7189-993c-6e4b10f8599d", "title": "Partisan papers pulling few punches – how Cambridge Tories & Liberals sparred in print.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/partisan-papers-pulling-few-punches-how-cambridge-tories-liberals-sparred-in-print/", "published_at": "2021-01-02T21:31:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-446c-7189-993c-6e4b1101c2d5", "title": "Cambridge Tories respond in war of words against Whigs and Liberals, 1840.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/cambridge-tories-respond-in-war-of-words-against-whigs-and-liberals-1840/", "published_at": "2021-01-02T13:37:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-446c-7189-993c-6e4b1160c7d4", "title": "Angry mob demands Freedom From Information Act while driving resident dissenters out of town – to America. Cambridge 1792.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/angry-mob-demands-freedom-from-information-act-while-driving-resident-dissenters-out-of-town-to-america-cambridge-1792/", "published_at": "2021-01-01T23:09:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-446c-7189-993c-6e4b12152ef0", "title": "Author Henry Gunning slams Tory bribery to back Professor Starkie in 1840 Parliamentary election.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/author-henry-gunning-slams-tory-bribery-to-back-professor-starkie-in-1840-parliamentary-election/", "published_at": "2021-01-01T22:26:24+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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Cambridgeshire County Council to sell the old Mill Road Library building original ↗

12 Aug 2022

Cllrs Clara Rackham and Lilian Mellish Clark appoint Brinley Newton-John as Headmaster of the Cambridge County High School for Boys – Christmas 1945 original ↗

9 Aug 2022

Cambridge’s Unbuilt Concert Hall – with Open Cambridge 2022 original ↗

8 Aug 2022

What children thought about school in the 1960s – and what they wanted to see changed, at a time of huge structural change in education. And not just in Cambridge.original ↗

4 Aug 2022

The Co-operative women’s guild magazines of the mid-1980s – produced in Cambridge original ↗

25 Jul 2022

Museum of Cambridge seeks to ‘develop its retail experience’ – how have other museums done this well?original ↗

24 Jul 2022

Imagining a schools and colleges art programme for children and teenagers on Cambridgeshire’s past, present, and future.original ↗

20 Jul 2022

Cambridgeshire Archives Service Forward Plan 2022-24 – and the Museum of Cambridge’s Strategic Plan 2022-27.original ↗

15 Jul 2022

Analysing Cambourne’s contemporary history original ↗

28 Jun 2022

“When I am MP” – July 1923 – also when Cambridge University’s MPs tried to change the University’s rules to enable women to graduate original ↗

30 May 2022

Digitising old documents for new generations learning about Lost Cambridge original ↗

27 May 2022

Comparing Oxford, Cambridge, and Brighton’s post war development planning in the motor car age original ↗

19 May 2022

Central Cambridge’s townscape in the 1970s original ↗

9 May 2022

The plan for a new indoor swimming pool at Parkside in 1935.original ↗

12 Apr 2022

Charles Henry Cooper – the Father of Modern Cambridge original ↗

15 Mar 2022

The Andrew Murden Centre for Unemployed and Unwaged Citizens original ↗

13 Mar 2022

Army brass band opens St Matthew’s Piece, Petersfield, Cambridge, 1898.original ↗

2 Jan 2022

2021

What became of the old trade union banners?original ↗

29 Dec 2021

What Lost Cambridge rediscovered in 2021 – a review and summary original ↗

26 Dec 2021

Eglantyne Jebb prosecuted for handing out protest leaflets without permission from the military censor. May 1919.original ↗

23 Dec 2021

The Soldiers’ Christmas – Winter 1914 original ↗

20 Dec 2021

Cllr Ruth Bagnall – one of the best MPs Cambridge never had.original ↗

5 Dec 2021

“Top officials reject city super-plans” – Cambridge 1974 original ↗

20 Nov 2021

Historical Cambridge documents informing current housing and transport consultations – 2021 original ↗

11 Nov 2021

The Romsey Local Plan 1986 and a proposal for a station at Addenbrooke’s in the 1990s original ↗

3 Nov 2021

Why did Cambridgeshire County Council reject the Six Mile Bottom Light Railway plan in February 2003?original ↗

22 Oct 2021

Abandoned proposals for Cambridge Light Rail Transport – 1991 by Colin Buchanan & Partners original ↗

15 Oct 2021

Why did it all kick off in The Kite, Cambridge? The redevelopment plans from the late 1960s speak volumes original ↗

12 Oct 2021

Cambridge’s asks its residents to make a Blueprint for Cambridge after Parry Lewis is rejected by the councils original ↗

9 Oct 2021

“Take the shackles off the town so I can plan…!” John Parry Lewis’s impossible job original ↗

8 Oct 2021

“He said “I’ve been to the Year 2000″”original ↗

7 Oct 2021

Vice Chancellor Sir Ivor Jennings QC says Cambridge University has a duty to improve the city – and says University will contribute 50% of the cost of a new large public hall. 1962 original ↗

6 Oct 2021

Life at the rough end of Cambridge with the Salvation Army – who weren’t always the good guys. Lost Cambridge 1885.original ↗

24 Sept 2021

How the Royal Commission on Local Government 1969 could have left Cambridgeshire looking very different original ↗

24 Sept 2021

“An informal, friendly place to stroll through, peer into shop windows, chat with friends, lounge in pubs or sit in the sun”original ↗

16 Sept 2021

What should the role of local historians be in the local planning process?original ↗

14 Sept 2021

Cambridge Architect Gordon Logie assesses the need for a new large concert hall. March 1967 original ↗

2 Sept 2021

Son of Florence Ada Keynes on the future of the new Arts Council original ↗

9 Aug 2021

The opening of the new Cambridge Corn Exchange – the dedication to the people of Cambridge. November 1875 original ↗

8 Aug 2021

“I want to ride my bicycle – I want to ride it where I like!”original ↗

6 Aug 2021

Frida Knight on Vietnam at the time of the Tet Offensive in 1968 – two years before she returned to Cambridge with her husband original ↗

23 Jul 2021

The Holford-Wright Maps of the Cambridge Development Plan 1950 original ↗

16 Jul 2021

Professor Alexander Macalister accuses King’s College of running off with all of the stone from Cambridge Castle. 1895 original ↗

7 Jul 2021

“And we’re gonna party like it’s 1899!”original ↗

7 Jul 2021

Mayor of Cambridge hosts railway summit shortly after the new station opens original ↗

4 Jul 2021

To the River Cam – 03 May 1794 original ↗

30 Jun 2021

Dame Leah Manning’s early teaching philosophy before WWI.original ↗

29 Jun 2021

Why did Robert Richard Torrens choose Cambridge? Cambridge 1865.original ↗

25 Jun 2021

Cambridge Liberals prepare to lose another election contest – amid allegations of Tory corruption and bribery. 1865 original ↗

25 Jun 2021

Lamenting the loss of old buildings by the Late Victorians in Cambridge. 1894.original ↗

22 Jun 2021

More unbuilt law courts – proposed extensions on Castle Hill, 1967.original ↗

21 Jun 2021

Brinley Newton John’s Cambridge – in the immediate postwar era. From the National Library of Scotland original ↗

20 Jun 2021

Catherine Tillyard’s summary of local issues in early 1906 – when there was a general election on.original ↗

16 Jun 2021

Cambridge Borough Council approves the principle of electric trams for Cambridge. 1904 original ↗

15 Jun 2021

The gradual renewal of The Kite – the proposals rejected by the Conservative-led city council.original ↗

12 Jun 2021

Radical newspaper the Cambridge General Advertiser slams Cambridge University Dons for backing former slave-owning Tory MP Sir Alexander Grant original ↗

10 Jun 2021

“Where’s our city cycling network?” Gordon Logie’s future shape of Cambridge – 1966 original ↗

9 Jun 2021

Sedley Taylor tells Cambridge Liberals to scrutinise socialist document carefully – in anticipation of an electoral challenge from the left. 1884 original ↗

6 Jun 2021

Thomas Spring Rice presents himself as the Whig candidate for Cambridge. 1832.original ↗

5 Jun 2021

Cambridge City Council Architect Gordon Logie calls for a pedestrianised town centre. 1964 original ↗

28 May 2021

The view of a busy newly elected Cllr Mrs Jean Barker – before she became famous – 1964 original ↗

27 May 2021

The Cambridge Independent on mid-19thC Emigration to the USA and to the UK’s colonies original ↗

25 May 2021

Tories Riot in Cambridge on Queen Victoria’s Birthday – and get smashed up by workingmen when they tried again the next day. 1839.original ↗

21 May 2021

Liberal/Whig MPs George Pryme & Thomas Spring Rice threatened by Tory gang. 1837.original ↗

20 May 2021

Village College Pioneer Henry Morris in defence of local government. 1955 original ↗

19 May 2021

A century of Chinese students in Cambridge. The Bull Hotel, 1925.original ↗

18 May 2021

Opening of Cambridge’s first modern water works. 1855 original ↗

17 May 2021

The Cambridge radical press & the fight for democracy: 1841 original ↗

16 May 2021

Capt Robert Falcon Scott RN of The Antarctic at Cambridge Guildhall. 1905 original ↗

15 May 2021

Professor Henry Fawcett and the Elementary Education Act 1870 original ↗

12 May 2021

The importance of the secret ballot – Cambridge Liberals learn the hard way. 1859 original ↗

2 May 2021

Cambridge Chartists fail to convince the local press. April 1848 original ↗

2 May 2021

Dr Hugh Dalton’s speech to trade unionists on May Day 1920 on Parker’s Piece.original ↗

1 May 2021

The death of John Charles Horobin of Homerton College, July 1902.original ↗

26 Apr 2021

The opening of Morley Memorial Primary School – purpose-built for Homerton College, Cambridge – Part 2 original ↗

25 Apr 2021

The opening of Morley Memorial Primary School – purpose-built for Homerton College, Cambridge – Part 1 original ↗

24 Apr 2021

The lost theses of the Cambridgeshire Collection original ↗

19 Apr 2021

Did Cambridge town have no history between the English Civil War and the Great Reform Act of 1832?original ↗

10 Apr 2021

Arbury council estate built without community facilities. 1965 original ↗

27 Mar 2021

The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society original ↗

12 Mar 2021

Mrs Pankhurst faces down rowdy Cambridge undergraduates. 1910 original ↗

16 Feb 2021

Thug burns down possible venue for a possible Cambridge Atheist Tabernacle Choir. 1986.original ↗

9 Feb 2021

The history of Alex Wood Hall – by the late Mayor Cllr John Durrant. 06 Sept 1985 original ↗

8 Feb 2021

The decline and fall of The Beaconsfield Club – Petersfield, Cambridge 1982.original ↗

8 Feb 2021

Mayor Foster slammed the Tories for being “Naughty, naughty…very naughty!” Cambridge Market Hill 1823 original ↗

6 Feb 2021

Prof George Pryme MP – The man who smashed the Rutland stranglehold on Cambridge original ↗

5 Feb 2021

“You can’t live there! It’s against regulations!” Cambridge’s housing crisis of 1946.original ↗

3 Feb 2021

Labour’s Freda and David Hardman demand council takeover of privatised public utilities. 1938 original ↗

27 Jan 2021

Cllr Robert Davies – MP-candidate for Cambridge Labour Party, 1964.original ↗

24 Jan 2021

3,000 people protest against plans for an enlarged Cambridgeshire County Council. 1960. Spoiler. They lost.original ↗

24 Jan 2021

Cambridge University blocks Silver Street Railway Station. 1847.original ↗

24 Jan 2021

Lost Cambridge and the General Strike of 1926 – when thousands of undergraduates rose up against the workers original ↗

17 Jan 2021

Rev William Boothby Selbie of Emmanuel Congregational Church & the Labour Movement.original ↗

14 Jan 2021

James Essex, architect of the old Cambridge Guildhall, and the Great Stone Bridge of Cambridge original ↗

8 Jan 2021

When Keynes, Jebb, and Darwin appeared on a public platform to defend free trade against new Tory tariffs. Cambridge 1910.original ↗

4 Jan 2021

Cllr Clara Rackham slams pointless Labour branch meetings.original ↗

3 Jan 2021

Partisan papers pulling few punches – how Cambridge Tories & Liberals sparred in print.original ↗

2 Jan 2021

Cambridge Tories respond in war of words against Whigs and Liberals, 1840.original ↗

2 Jan 2021

Angry mob demands Freedom From Information Act while driving resident dissenters out of town – to America. Cambridge 1792.original ↗

1 Jan 2021

Author Henry Gunning slams Tory bribery to back Professor Starkie in 1840 Parliamentary election.original ↗

1 Jan 2021