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Upcoming lectures:

 

Getting here: There is plenty of parking available on site. 

Public transport: There are regular buses from both Cambridge and St Neots to Cambourne.  

School address: CAMBOURNE VILLAGE COLLEGE
SHEEPFOLD LANE, CAMBOURNE
CAMBRIDGE CB23 6FR 

Recordings of previous lectures:

Please follow the links below to access the recordings of previous lectures and feedback forms.

• The metal fragment and the Cuffley Airship by Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia. Lecture Feedback Form.
• Remarkable women in Medieval History by Sharon Connolly. Lecture Feedback Form
• Let That Be Your Last Battlefield: Tutankhamun and Disability by Alexandra Morris. Lecture Feedback Form.
• The Most Famous of Carthaginians: Hannibal and Dido in the Roman Imagination by Dr. Eve MacDonald. Lecture Feedback Form.
• Oliver Cromwell - the good, the bad and the ugly by Professor Peter Gaunt. Lecture Feedback Form.
• Strikes, Food Riots, and Living Standards in the Yorkshire Coalfield 1786-1801 by Joe Stanley. Lecture Feedback Form.
• The End of The British Empire: Migration, Conflict and the Building of Institutions by Spencer Mawby. Lecture Feedback Form.
• Lecture by Dr Sujit Sivasundaram. Author of Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire. Lecture Feedback Form.
• The papyri of Greek and Roman Egypt by Dr Enrico Emanuele Prodi. Lecture Feedback Form.
• From Democracy to Dictatorship: The Rise of National Socialism in Germany by Alessandro Salvador. Lecture Feedback Form.
• Understanding Roman Violence by Matt Myers. Lecture Feedback Form.
• The Miners’ Strike of 1984-5: a new oral history by Professor Robert Gildea. Lecture Feedback Form.
• Why Homer's Iliad is so popularin the 21st Century by Professor Edith Hall. Lecture Feedback Form.
• The Witch of London Bridge by Dr Rory Naismith. Lecture Feedback Form.
• How Women Won the Vote by Jane Robinson. Lecture Feedback Form.
• The Russian Revolution of 1917 by Dr George Gilbert. Lecture Feedback Form.
• Remembrance and the First World War by Dr Andre Keil. Lecture Feedback Form.
• Danger and Excitement: The Experiences of Women during the British Civil Wars of the 1640s​ by Dr Elaine Murphy, Lecture Feedback Form
• Commemorating the First World War: Then and Now​ by Dr Marjorie Gehrhardt. Lecture Feedback Form
• Pompeii in its own words​ by Dr Nicholas Zair​. Lecture Feedback Form

Reading Lists

• Were the Peasants really Revolting? The Great Revolt of 1381 and its Aftermath by Dr Claire Kennan. Please follow this link to access a reading list put together by our speaker Dr Kennan

Q & As

A number of historians have very kindly answered a range of questions about their work and interests.

Dr R Aitken	Dr A Holmes-Henderson	Prof P Mandler
S Bennett Connolly	Dr A Keil	J Robinson
C Cooper	Dr C Kennan	S P Sivasundaram
Prof M Gaskill	Dr H Lyon	Dr D L Smith
Prof R Gildea