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Activity: A Visit to View the Newnham College Suffrage Artefacts

Newnham College Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

A rare opportunity to view some of the unique items that comprise the Newnham College collection

Join us on a visit to Newnham College to see their acclaimed suffrage banner. First seen during a procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies on 13 June 1908. The visit will include a chance to see items donated by the artist and collector Christiana Herringham (1852-1929), an early benefactor of the college and an influential suffrage campaigner.

Activity: Cambridgeshire Characters Memory Café

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

From Snowy Farr on the Market Square to the Singing Binman on King’s Parade

Join us in the Enid Porter Room from 1:00pm on Friday 23 November and share your memories over tea and biscuits

January Walking Tour: Hidden Cambridge and the Museum of Cambridge

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Join us and explore Hidden Cambridge, taking in the streets, alleys, buildings and history of the people living in the area between St John's College and Quayside — the centre of trade that made the town a thriving inland port long before the first students arrived — before crossing the river to Castle Hill and the location of the Roman settlement of Duroliponte.

The January 2019 Hidden Cambridge and the Museum of Cambridge walking tour is fully booked

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Exhibition: Barnwell at War

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

The everyday lives of working-class people in the east of Cambridge during the Great War

Showcasing research by 100 Years of Coconuts, Wolfson College and the Everyday Lives in War First World War Engagement Centre at the University of Hertfordshire that explores the cultural memory of everyday Cambridge and examines the changes to the pattern of life during an era of previously unparalleled trauma

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Talk: Growing Up and Getting On in the 1960s

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Three stories of education and everyday life

Join us as Dr Laura Carter explores the experience of growing up in the region using three local life stories that have been reconstructed from information derived from the 1946 British Birth Cohort — a longitudinal study that has followed more than 5,000 postwar babies from cradle to old-age.

Tickets are free, but you must book so that we can manage attendance.

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February Walking Tour: Hidden Cambridge and the Museum of Cambridge

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Join us and explore Hidden Cambridge, taking in the streets, alleys, buildings and history of the people living in the area between St John's College and Quayside — the centre of trade that made the town a thriving inland port long before the first students arrived — before crossing the river to Castle Hill and the location of the Roman settlement of Duroliponte.

The February 2019 Hidden Cambridge and the Museum of Cambridge walking tour is fully booked

Activity: Twilight at the Museums – Torches! Trinkets! Treasures!

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Join us for a Twilight event at the Museum of Cambridge Explore some weird and wonderful objects from the Museum’s collection in an interactive session with arts and crafts, object handling and more. Follow the trail and discover hidden secrets