Thursday 9 February
Enid Porter Memorial Lecture Science and Industry in Victorian Cambridge: the laboratory and the observatory by Simon Schaffer 7.00 – 8.00pm Castle Hill Methodist Church
Tickets cost £8.50/£6.00 (to include a glass of wine afterwards at the Museum of Cambridge) Scientific institutions need major infrastructure – a trained workforce, equipment and support staff and resources. Victorian Cambridge did not always have these resources in sufficient abundance, yet it witnessed the establishment of some major and ultimately globally significant scientific institutions, such as an astronomical observatory on Madingley Road and an experimental physics laboratory on Free School Lane. The relation between these new sites of scientific work and wider issues of industry and culture has much to reveal about more recent critical developments in the city’s recent past. Prof. Simon Schaffer teaches history of science at the University of Cambridge. He has recently co-edited ‘Material cultures of enlightenment arts and sciences’ and ‘Aesthetics of universal knowledge’, both from Palgrave Macmillan.
Friday 10 February
Celebrating Local History with Capturing Cambridge 2.00 – 4.00pm Museum of Cambridge
Free, drop in Come along to the Enid Porter Room at the Museum of Cambridge if you are interested in local history and want to meet like-minded people and share your stories and memories. This will also be an opportunity to meet the people behind the Capturing Cambridge Project and our community editors. 4
Saturday 11 February
LGBT history walking tour 11.00am – 12.30pm Meeting place: Outside King’s College Ending place: The Anchor Pub
Tickets: £8.50/£6.00 Come and walk with us on a LGBT+ history tour of Cambridge.The tour will feature some of Cambridge’s famous and more closeted LGBT haunts including both University and town sites. Profits from the tour will go to local LGBT youth charity SexYOUality.
Sunday 12 February
From Castle Hill to the Cavendish: the Story of Cambridge 11.00am – 12.30pm Meeting place: Museum of Cambridge Ending place: City Centre
Tickets: £8.50/£6.00 Cambridge has a rich history stretching back to the time of the Romans. Occupiers along the way have included the Saxons, the Vikings and the Normans. Before the students arrived in 1209, Cambridge was already flourishing as a trade centre and inland port. Through the centuries Cambridge became home to one of the world’s top Universities, with 95 Nobel Prize winners to its name. Today it is the biggest technology cluster in Europe. This tour will look at the people and places, both town and gown, that make up the extraordinary story of Cambridge. Chris Skilton is an accredited Cambridge Green Badge guide. He runs his own walking tour company, Cambridge Tour Guides.
Sunday 12 February
Bridging the Cam: Family Engineering Activity 2.00 – 4.00pm Museum of Technology
Free, drop in Come and learn the technology behind the bridges that cross the river. Design, build and test your own bridge! Pick up one of our family