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"https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/09/14/the-women-who-made-modern-cambridge-for-open-cambridge-2019/", "published_at": "2019-09-14T23:39:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfa-9396-70eb-bd63-1fbd9aea6bbf", "title": "Cambridge residents denied the vote meet at the guildhall. 1859.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/09/01/cambridge-residents-denied-the-vote-meet-at-the-guildhall-1859/", "published_at": "2019-09-01T18:21:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfa-9396-70eb-bd63-1fbd9bda47a5", "title": "First mass demonstration of trade unionists in Cambridge demand an 8 hour working day. 1913", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/24/first-mass-demonstration-of-trade-unionists-in-cambridge-demand-an-8-hour-working-day-1913/", "published_at": "2019-08-24T00:28:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfa-9396-70eb-bd63-1fbd9beae470", "title": "The guildhall question returns. 1908", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/the-guildhall-question-returns-1908/", "published_at": "2019-08-22T23:24:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfa-9396-70eb-bd63-1fbd9c95e23f", "title": "The shambles of Cambridge Borough Council’s deliberations on a new guildhall in the 1890s", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/21/the-shambles-of-cambridge-borough-councils-deliberations-on-a-new-guildhall-in-the-1890s/", "published_at": "2019-08-21T12:27:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfa-9396-70eb-bd63-1fbd9cccba6e", "title": "William Milner Fawcett – the Architect for Victorian Cambridge", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/william-milner-fawcett-the-architect-for-victorian-cambridge/", "published_at": "2019-08-18T21:19:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfa-9396-70eb-bd63-1fbd9d783f33", "title": "The Other Cambridge – 1964", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/15/the-other-cambridge-1964/", "published_at": "2019-08-15T21:50:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfa-9396-70eb-bd63-1fbd9e4eb0a4", "title": "The Annals of Cambridge – Charles Henry Cooper’s comprehensive record of our city", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/the-annals-of-cambridge-charles-henry-coopers-comprehensive-record-of-our-city/", "published_at": "2019-08-14T20:57:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfa-9396-70eb-bd63-1fbd9ed16985", "title": "Making Cambridge’s schools accessible to children – 1893", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/making-cambridges-schools-accessible-to-children-1893/", "published_at": "2019-08-12T22:42:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfa-9396-70eb-bd63-1fbd9f099e60", "title": "Henry Fawcett stands for Parliament in Cambridge Borough. 1863.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/henry-fawcett-stands-for-parliament-in-cambridge-borough-1863/", "published_at": "2019-08-12T19:47:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfa-9396-70eb-bd63-1fbd9fad2ac4", "title": "Voting rights in Cambridge – a petition to Parliament. 1820.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/voting-rights-in-cambridge-a-petition-to-parliament-1820/", "published_at": "2019-08-12T18:38:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfe-9d62-73b7-914c-ec31d4e66106", "title": "Cllr Florence Ada Keynes votes Labour in 1918 General Election.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/cllr-florence-ada-keynes-votes-labour-in-1918-general-election/", "published_at": "2019-08-06T18:49:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfe-9d62-73b7-914c-ec31d57fd1f3", "title": "The Cambridge Folk Festival", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/the-cambridge-folk-festival/", "published_at": "2019-08-02T22:26:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfe-9d62-73b7-914c-ec31d6465799", "title": "A radicalised Eglantyne Jebb slams UK for breaking its word with Germany. January 1919", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/a-radicalised-eglantyne-jebb-slams-uk-for-breaking-its-word-with-germany-january-1919/", "published_at": "2019-07-19T14:47:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfe-9d62-73b7-914c-ec31d7194bab", "title": "Dr Alice Roughton; medic, peace campaigner, provider of sanctuary", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/dr-alice-roughton-medic-peace-campaigner-provider-of-sanctuary/", "published_at": "2019-06-15T20:47:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfe-9d62-73b7-914c-ec31d80c3268", "title": "The Monty Python Bishop and the Suez Crisis in Cambridge – 1956", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/the-monty-python-bishop-and-the-suez-crisis-in-cambridge-1956/", "published_at": "2019-06-14T22:03:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfe-9d62-73b7-914c-ec31d86e631d", "title": "Cambridge’s first police station 1836-40", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/06/10/cambridges-first-police-station-1836-40/", "published_at": "2019-06-10T22:37:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfe-9d62-73b7-914c-ec31d8d8a3fc", "title": "Trees and town planning – Cambridge 1939.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/06/09/trees-and-town-planning-cambridge-1939/", "published_at": "2019-06-09T20:46:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfe-9d62-73b7-914c-ec31d944c86f", "title": "Bribery and corruption allegations at The Guildhall – 1841", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/06/07/bribery-and-corruption-allegations-at-the-guildhall-1841/", "published_at": "2019-06-07T22:14:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfe-9d62-73b7-914c-ec31d968e0a9", "title": "People’s Suffrage Federation meet in Cambridge, 1913.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/05/23/peoples-suffrage-federation-meet-in-cambridge-1913/", "published_at": "2019-05-23T18:47:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfe-9d62-73b7-914c-ec31d98f2d20", "title": "The River Cam’s sewage problem – 1870", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/the-river-cams-sewage-problem-1870/", "published_at": "2019-05-10T23:12:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-418e-70fa-9838-3100a033a38e", "title": "Clara Rackham in Newmarket for Women’s Suffrage. 1913.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/05/02/clara-rackham-in-newmarket-for-womens-suffrage-1913/", "published_at": "2019-05-02T13:24:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-418e-70fa-9838-3100a03cb970", "title": "Future of Cambridge plans from the 1970s", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/05/01/future-of-cambridge-plans-from-the-1970s/", "published_at": "2019-05-01T22:04:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-418e-70fa-9838-3100a0b01f8f", "title": "Direct action by Cambridge teenagers in 1985 leads to the construction of The Junction Arts Centre", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/direct-action-by-cambridge-teenagers-in-1985-leads-to-the-construction-of-the-junction-arts-centre/", "published_at": "2019-03-01T22:39:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-418e-70fa-9838-3100a0d98d94", "title": "Cambridge needs more museum space to display recent local archaeological finds says county council’s head of archaeology", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/02/28/cambridge-needs-more-museum-space-to-display-recent-local-archaeological-finds-says-county-councils-head-of-archaeology/", "published_at": "2019-02-28T22:33:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-418e-70fa-9838-3100a14e5591", "title": "Hidden works on Lost Cambridge by researchers predating the social media age", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/02/09/hidden-works-on-lost-cambridge-by-researchers-predating-the-social-media-age/", "published_at": "2019-02-09T20:38:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-418e-70fa-9838-3100a237ac42", "title": "Lella Secor Florence – stepping up equalities campaigning in interwar Cambridge", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/lella-secor-florence-stepping-up-equalities-campaigning-in-interwar-cambridge/", "published_at": "2019-02-04T23:31:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-418e-70fa-9838-3100a28f69c3", "title": "Cambridge undergraduates have punch-up with anti-war activists outside The Tivoli Cinema – November 1933", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/01/21/cambridge-undergraduates-have-punch-up-with-anti-war-activists-outside-the-tivoli-cinema-november-1933/", "published_at": "2019-01-21T16:09:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-418e-70fa-9838-3100a2b9ecdd", "title": "Cambridge’s first birth control clinic of 1925 and the study of its first 300 service users in 1930", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/cambridges-first-birth-control-clinic-of-1925-and-the-study-of-its-first-300-service-users-in-1930/", "published_at": "2019-01-17T23:51:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-418e-70fa-9838-3100a2e6f744", "title": "John Cornford and the fight against the Fascists in the 1930s.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/john-cornford-and-the-fight-against-the-fascists-in-the-1930s/", "published_at": "2019-01-14T23:06:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-418e-70fa-9838-3100a3ad2b18", "title": "Cambridge Industrial School and Rev Harvey Goodwin. 1847.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/01/13/cambridge-industrial-school-and-rev-harvey-goodwin-1847/", "published_at": "2019-01-13T17:25:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc03-d294-735e-817a-010ef361a505", "title": "Roguishness and vagabondery in Victorian Cambridge – 1851.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/roguishness-and-vagabondery-in-victorian-cambridge-1851/", "published_at": "2019-01-03T23:16:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc03-d294-735e-817a-010ef3c5ed5c", "title": "Cambridge Newspaper slams Cambridge University over the Spinning House. 1846.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/cambridge-newspaper-slams-cambridge-university-over-the-spinning-house-1846/", "published_at": "2019-01-01T19:48:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc03-d294-735e-817a-010ef43ac97a", "title": "Proposal to turn the Spinning House in Cambridge into a hospital. 1840.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2018/12/31/proposal-to-turn-the-spinning-house-in-cambridge-into-a-hospital-1840/", "published_at": "2018-12-31T18:10:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc03-d294-735e-817a-010ef4b0a011", "title": "Inquest of Elizabeth Howe at the Spinning House, Cambridge University’s private prison. 1846.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2018/12/31/inquest-of-elizabeth-howe-at-the-spinning-house-cambridge-universitys-private-prison-1846/", "published_at": "2018-12-31T00:29:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc03-d294-735e-817a-010ef4f53316", "title": "Replacing ‘the Cam-Bridge’ with an Iron Bridge. 1822-23.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2018/12/24/replacing-the-cam-bridge-with-an-iron-bridge-1822-23/", "published_at": "2018-12-24T17:01:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc03-d294-735e-817a-010ef5f04d61", "title": "Cambridge MP Stanley Buckmaster KC called to account by a young Clara Rackham and Lady Frances Balfour. 1908.", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2018/12/23/cambridge-mp-stanley-buckmaster-kc-called-to-account-by-a-young-clara-rackham-and-lady-frances-balfour-1908/", "published_at": "2018-12-23T15:15:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc03-d294-735e-817a-010ef6c458b1", "title": "The first anniversary of the old Barnwell Working Men’s Reading Room (now under a widened East Road!) 13 Jan 1855", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/the-first-anniversary-of-the-old-barnwell-working-mens-reading-room-now-under-a-widened-east-road-13-jan-1855/", "published_at": "2018-12-19T23:11:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc03-d294-735e-817a-010ef74fa29e", "title": "Neptune’s horses keeping guard of Cambridge – since 1575", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/neptunes-horses-keeping-guard-of-cambridge-since-1575/", "published_at": "2018-12-17T20:16:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc03-d294-735e-817a-010ef7933696", "title": "Planning for the future of shopping in Cambridge – July 1966", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2018/12/10/planning-for-the-future-of-shopping-in-cambridge-july-1966/", "published_at": "2018-12-10T22:04:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc03-d294-735e-817a-010ef7a81470", "title": "Clara Rackham – a blue plaque for a civic hero", "url": "https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/clara-rackham-a-blue-plaque-for-a-civic-hero/", "published_at": "2018-11-21T23:03:15+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2021

How did Cambridge Liberal Thomas Starkie lose an election contest with a slave-trading Tory in 1840?original ↗
1 Jan 2021

2020

Cambridge Tories nominate slave-owner as MP-candidate – gets heckled by crowds on Parker’s Piece protesting against slavery. May 1840.original ↗
31 Dec 2020
Henry Thomas Hall’s Fitzroy Discussion Club – 1870s Barnwell, Cambridge.original ↗
29 Dec 2020
A commentary on a selection of images of Lost Cambridgeoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2020
1840s Lost Cambridge – the British Library’s collection of etchingsoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2020
Cllr Henry Thomas Hall (Liberal – Barnwell), 1823-94original ↗
19 Dec 2020
“I heard it through the Cambridge Grapevine” – resisting comprehensive redevelopment in The Kite pre-Grafton Centreoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2020
Victorian-style Charity for Christmas in Cambridge.original ↗
15 Dec 2020
Cllr Gotobed sent to bed by Cllr Henry Thomas Hall in library funding vote. 1864.original ↗
14 Dec 2020
Cllr Henry Thomas Hall of the Cambridge Liberals gets into trouble with pro-Royalist councillors. 1871/72.original ↗
11 Dec 2020
Catherine Tillyard leads a large protest on Mill Road against Prime Minister Balfour’s Education Act 1902.original ↗
4 Dec 2020
The untimely death of Cambridge Labour’s Arthur Leslie Symonds MPoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2020
Public services in late 1960s Cambridgeoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2020
The Nelson Street Massiv and the Adult School Movementoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2020
Cambridge’s lost early cinemas, 1912.original ↗
27 Oct 2020
The Newnham College graduate who made the case for nationalising the Bank of Englandoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2020
On ‘New old books’ and their importance to history as well as today’s current affairsoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2020
William Robert Davidge and the Cambridgeshire Regional Plan of 1934original ↗
10 Oct 2020
The politics of the motor car and its impact on 20th Century Cambridgeoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2020
Capt Geoffrey Theodore Garratt M.B.E. of Cambridge County Labour – author, journalist, anti-fascist.original ↗
27 Sept 2020
Redeveloping the Mill Road Playhouse Cinemaoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2020
Calls for a new Museum of Cambridge – in 1858original ↗
17 Sept 2020
“Labour’s plan for Cambridge” – Cambridge Borough Council election, October 1945original ↗
6 Sept 2020
Doctors Zacharias Peter Fernandez and Upendra Duttoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2020
A walk through Eglantyne Jebb’s Cambridgeoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2020
#VJDay75 and the return of the survivors of the Cambridgeshire Regimentoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2020
PYE of Cambridge at the Cambridge Museum of Technologyoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2020
Communists for the Borough Council? The policies of the Cambridge Communist Party 1945original ↗
8 Aug 2020
Book Review: The Memoirs of Frida Stewart, published 01 July 2020.original ↗
13 Jul 2020
Frida Stewart – a Cambridge woman of actionoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2020
The diaries of “The Guv’nor” John Edis of Cambridge Town Gaoloriginal ↗
4 Jul 2020
Clara Rackham and the Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962original ↗
30 Jun 2020
Cambridge residents call for new concert hall – 1961.original ↗
30 Jun 2020
Death of Albert Stubbs MP, (Lab – Cambridge County 1945-50) in 1962original ↗
30 Jun 2020
Rev. Alexander Crummell – one of the first Black students at Cambridge University, 1848.original ↗
28 Jun 2020
Sir David Robinson’s example to those who made their fortunes in Cambridgeoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2020
Brinley Newton-John, Headmaster of the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys – today Hills Road Sixth Form Collegeoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2020
Prof Helen Maud Cam on the ‘Corruptocracy’ of John Mortlock’s Cambridge in early 1800soriginal ↗
14 Jun 2020
Predicting the future of motor-car transport in 1902original ↗
13 Jun 2020
Original documents on reforming the civil service in Victorian Englandoriginal ↗
24 May 2020
80 years of public health reports for Cambridge Borough/City Counciloriginal ↗
15 May 2020
Oversight of mental health provision at Fulbourn Hospital in the 19th Centuryoriginal ↗
12 May 2020
The case for public hospitals like Addenbrooke’s – 1776original ↗
11 May 2020
How a ratepayers’ rebellion finally sank John Belcher’s magnificent guildhall plan. 1913.original ↗
4 May 2020
“The field gun is too big – can we have a couple of trench mortars instead?”original ↗
2 May 2020
The Cambridge District Scout Archive & Cllr Howard Mallett OBEoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2020
Cambridge University & Town Gas-Light Company Presentation: Dr Gordon Davies. 20 April 2020original ↗
30 Apr 2020
Labour’s Reuben Slingsby’s 1893 election address to voters in St Matthew’s Wardoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2020
Cllr Reuben Slingsby – the first Labour councillor on Cambridge Borough Council – 1893.original ↗
27 Apr 2020
J.J. Overton of Cambridge Labour Partyoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2020
Demolition of the old Wrestlers Inn, Petty Cury, 1884/85original ↗
20 Apr 2020
Albert Stubbs MP – speech in Gamlingay, 13 Feb 1948 in defence of the Labour Government.original ↗
5 Apr 2020
Town and country planning in interwar Cambridgeoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2020
Influenza pandemic – Cambridge 1918original ↗
17 Mar 2020
Dame Leah Manning’s Blue Plaque – life in Barnwell, Cambridge in 1900soriginal ↗
16 Jan 2020

2019

Sedley Taylor and the first council-run dental clinic in the country. 1907.original ↗
17 Nov 2019
Cambridgeshire Association for Local History – call for volunteersoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2019
A Cambridge Blue Plaque for Dame Leah Manningoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2019
Could Anglia Ruskin University host a Cambridge Local History Institute?original ↗
15 Sept 2019
The women who made modern Cambridge – for Open Cambridge 2019original ↗
14 Sept 2019
Cambridge residents denied the vote meet at the guildhall. 1859.original ↗
1 Sept 2019
First mass demonstration of trade unionists in Cambridge demand an 8 hour working day. 1913original ↗
24 Aug 2019
The guildhall question returns. 1908original ↗
22 Aug 2019
The shambles of Cambridge Borough Council’s deliberations on a new guildhall in the 1890soriginal ↗
21 Aug 2019
William Milner Fawcett – the Architect for Victorian Cambridgeoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2019
The Other Cambridge – 1964original ↗
15 Aug 2019
The Annals of Cambridge – Charles Henry Cooper’s comprehensive record of our cityoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2019
Making Cambridge’s schools accessible to children – 1893original ↗
12 Aug 2019
Henry Fawcett stands for Parliament in Cambridge Borough. 1863.original ↗
12 Aug 2019
Voting rights in Cambridge – a petition to Parliament. 1820.original ↗
12 Aug 2019
Cllr Florence Ada Keynes votes Labour in 1918 General Election.original ↗
6 Aug 2019
The Cambridge Folk Festivaloriginal ↗
2 Aug 2019
A radicalised Eglantyne Jebb slams UK for breaking its word with Germany. January 1919original ↗
19 Jul 2019
Dr Alice Roughton; medic, peace campaigner, provider of sanctuaryoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2019
The Monty Python Bishop and the Suez Crisis in Cambridge – 1956original ↗
14 Jun 2019
Cambridge’s first police station 1836-40original ↗
10 Jun 2019
Trees and town planning – Cambridge 1939.original ↗
9 Jun 2019
Bribery and corruption allegations at The Guildhall – 1841original ↗
7 Jun 2019
People’s Suffrage Federation meet in Cambridge, 1913.original ↗
23 May 2019
The River Cam’s sewage problem – 1870original ↗
10 May 2019
Clara Rackham in Newmarket for Women’s Suffrage. 1913.original ↗
2 May 2019
Future of Cambridge plans from the 1970soriginal ↗
1 May 2019
Direct action by Cambridge teenagers in 1985 leads to the construction of The Junction Arts Centreoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2019
Cambridge needs more museum space to display recent local archaeological finds says county council’s head of archaeologyoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2019
Hidden works on Lost Cambridge by researchers predating the social media ageoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2019
Lella Secor Florence – stepping up equalities campaigning in interwar Cambridgeoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2019
Cambridge undergraduates have punch-up with anti-war activists outside The Tivoli Cinema – November 1933original ↗
21 Jan 2019
Cambridge’s first birth control clinic of 1925 and the study of its first 300 service users in 1930original ↗
17 Jan 2019
John Cornford and the fight against the Fascists in the 1930s.original ↗
14 Jan 2019
Cambridge Industrial School and Rev Harvey Goodwin. 1847.original ↗
13 Jan 2019
Roguishness and vagabondery in Victorian Cambridge – 1851.original ↗
3 Jan 2019
Cambridge Newspaper slams Cambridge University over the Spinning House. 1846.original ↗
1 Jan 2019

2018

Proposal to turn the Spinning House in Cambridge into a hospital. 1840.original ↗
31 Dec 2018
Inquest of Elizabeth Howe at the Spinning House, Cambridge University’s private prison. 1846.original ↗
31 Dec 2018
Replacing ‘the Cam-Bridge’ with an Iron Bridge. 1822-23.original ↗
24 Dec 2018
Cambridge MP Stanley Buckmaster KC called to account by a young Clara Rackham and Lady Frances Balfour. 1908.original ↗
23 Dec 2018
The first anniversary of the old Barnwell Working Men’s Reading Room (now under a widened East Road!) 13 Jan 1855original ↗
19 Dec 2018
Neptune’s horses keeping guard of Cambridge – since 1575original ↗
17 Dec 2018
Planning for the future of shopping in Cambridge – July 1966original ↗
10 Dec 2018
Clara Rackham – a blue plaque for a civic herooriginal ↗
21 Nov 2018
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