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Activity: Memory Café – Fairs and Festivals

Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

From the excitement of the rides to the delicious food and treats on sale. From the music playing to the things available to buy. Did you or your family work at a fair? Did you look forward to them for weeks beforehand?

Fun fairs, markets and festivals, we want to hear your stories. Join us on Friday 31 August and share your recollections at our second August Memory Café.

Exhibition: At Last! Votes for Women

Fresh from the Women's Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science, we are proud to showcase banners, sashes, badges and documents that tell the story of the fight for equal voting rights for women.

The exhibition also includes the diaries of imprisoned campaigners and contemporary leaflets detailing protest tactics such as a plan to 'rush' the House of Commons.

Talk and Signing: Cambridge Women and the Struggle for the Vote

Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Did you know that Cambridge was at the forefront of the struggles for women's rights to vote a century ago?
Join author Sue Slack and learn about role of Cambridge women in the struggle for voting rights, from the late 19th century to 1928 and the Act that granted equal voting rights to women.

Free

Talk: Cambridge Suffragists 1884-1913, Mary Ward and the Ladies Dining Society

Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Mary WardActive between 1890 and 1914, the Ladies Dining Society was a discussion club formed by eleven Cambridge women, including some with connections to Newnham College. Few people realise how important this group of 'University Wives' were to voting equality

Join Dr Ann Kennedy Smith in the Enid Porter Room and learn more about this notable group of women and most especially Mary Ward, author of the play Man and Woman: the Question of the Day and for many years the Honorary Secretary of the Cambridge Women’s Suffrage Association.

Talk: Cambridge Banners and Suffrage

Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Convicts, Lunatics and Women Have No Vote!Banners were an essential part of equality protests and the choice of design and material were critical to their success

Join us in the Enid Porter Room on Wednesday 10 October to learn more about the manufacture of the banners used during the long struggle for voting equality.

Walking Tour: Newnham Ladies

Arbury Community Centre Campkin Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Map of the suburb of NewnhamNewnham Ladies have helped to shape the city of Cambridge and contributed much to the education of women and the success of the suffrage campaign

Join us on a walking tour of the streets and colleges of Newnham to learn more.

Activity: Memory Cafe – Traditions Around Death

Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

This special Memory Café session will be an opportunity to talk about beliefs around death and related traditions and is held in collaboration with Dying for Life.

Activity: Oral History Training

Enid Porter Room, Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

- Always wanted to know more about the amazing things that your neighbours have done? Ever wondered about the life of that fascinating old person who lives down the road? Are you interested in learning more about your local area and how it has changed over the years?

Our recent training session was so successful that we're offering another opportunity to learn how to conduct oral history interviews, and it's FREE!