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Saffron: a Cambridge spice

17 Jan 2023

An investigation into the local histories of saffron in Cambridgeshire.

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Criminals, miscreants and misdemeanours

12 Jun 2019

Two centuries of Isle of Ely court records illuminate the darkest corners of the region's past.

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Revealed: face of ‘ordinary poor’ man from medieval Cambridge

20 Mar 2017

New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college sheds light on how ordinary poor...

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Stourbridge Common

Stirbitch: mapping the unmappable

16 Jan 2015

Dr Michael Hrebeniak describes himself as inveterately curious about people and places. His fascination for a messy patch of Cambridge, best known...

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Detail from Richard Lyne's 1574 map of Cambridge.

Mapping the story of a very famous city

22 Aug 2013

A map dating from 1574 describes Cambridge as a very famous city. A copy of this exquisite document is one of the many thousands of treasures...

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