Open Day at Madingley Hall, Cambridge

~ Linda Rollitt

The University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education invites you to join us for our annual Open Day at Madingley Hall on Saturday 1 April 2017.

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Madingley Hall

Throughout the day, there will be opportunities to attend taster sessions on a variety of different subjects:

  • “The ideal home in the 18th century”, a local history taster session with Dr Ken Sneath.
  • “The Georgian ‘child support agency’: poor unmarried mothers, fathers and local history”, a local history taster session with Dr Samantha Williams.
  • “A cuckoo in the nest? Medieval Cambridge and its university”, a history taster session with Dr Rosemary Horrox.
  • Tours of Madingley Hall and Gardens.

There will also be the opportunity to chat with our academics 1 to 1 about your future study options here at the Institute, as well as special offers and discounts for enrolling on to our courses on the day.

View the full programme and book online at: Open Day

Rival Market Towns

~ Linda Rollitt

Don’t forget our final talk for this season is on Wed 8 Mar, by Julian Hunt, Buckinghamshire historian, ‘Berkhamsted, Tring and Aylesbury: rival market towns’. This meeting will be preceded by the AGM. Society meetings take place at 8:00pm in the Wellcome Great Hall, Town Hall, Berkhamsted. Visitors are always welcome @ £3 at the door.

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Map of Buckinghams. and Hertfords. in 1887

Map shows the close proximity of markets in Aylesbury, Tring and ‘Berk Hempsd’ (from Vision of Britain website)

The Bucks and Herts Rothschilds

~ Linda Rollitt

On Wed 8 Feb 2017, it’s our sixth talk of the season, by Bill Willett, Society member: ‘The Bucks and Herts Rothschilds’. Society meetings take place at 8:00pm in the Wellcome Great Hall, Town Hall, Berkhamsted. Visitors are always welcome @ £3 at the door.

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Photo is of Lord Rothschild driving his zebra team. He was the first man to tame these animals for draught purposes. For some years they were kept at Tring Park, the family seat in Hertfordshire, but were afterwards presented to the London Zoological Gardens (Sunday Mirror, Apr 1915).