Possibly Cambridge Museum of Technology is an example of Big Society in action. It’s also the perfect place to spend a few hours on a wet bank holiday afternoon, soaking in the smell of hot metal and grease.
The museum is housed in a Victorian pumping station, staffed by volunteers, and stuffed with beautifully maintained Victorian [...]
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Cambridge Museum of Technology and Related Stuff
August 29th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: cambridge · cambridgeshire · east anglia · east of england · museums · printmaking · Technology · victorian
Cambridge Espionage
January 24th, 2010 1 Comment
Cambridge University is famously associated with a certain spying scandal, politely referred to as the ‘Cambridge Five’. Perhaps in acknowledgment they’re having an intriguing-looking exhibition at the library of espionage related ephemera from the last 900 years.
“A library might seem a strange place for an exhibition of secret service, given its association with guns, fast [...]
Tags: cambridge · cambridge university · ephemera · espionage · museums
Cinema by punt
August 29th, 2009 No Comments
Cambridge Film Festival have released their schedule for their September festival. What looks most magical is night time screenings by punt – a totally Cambridge experience.
As they say on their website “Imagine yourself sitting in a punt as it glides through the atmospheric, nocturnal stillness of the Cam, a glass of bubbly in hand, cinema [...]
Tags: cambridge · cambridgeshire film festival · champagne · evening · punting
When a monkey is set to diagnose a bear
June 20th, 2009 1 Comment
Who knew that East Anglia was a noted producer of illuminated manuscripts back in the fourteenth century? Some of the best psalters now known of were painted at Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth. One of the most famous, the Macclesfield Psalter, was bought for the nation and is now at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
There is [...]
Tags: animals dressed up · cambridge · east anglia · fitzwilliam museum · gorleston · illuminated manuscripts · illustration · macclesfield psalter · psalter
Cambridge Wordfest
April 21st, 2009 No Comments
Cambridge Wordfest starts in earnest on Friday, with a whole roster of writers converging on the city for talks, workshops, interactive thingummies and more. Highlights include Andrew Motion in his last week as poet laureate reflecting on what he has learnt, Michael Morpurgo, David Starkey, Joanne Harris – the list goes on. There are practical [...]
Tags: authors · books · cambridge · lectures · literary festival · wordfest · writers · writing workshops
Full of festivals
March 5th, 2009 1 Comment
It struck me today that Cambridge, in particular, overflows with festivals. Whatever your hyperspecialised desire, there is probably a festival that will include it in this town. I just got an email from the Food and Drink festival about their fundraising quiz, where you go and drink wine and eat cheese and try and answer [...]
Tags: beer festival · cambridge · cambridgeshire · classical music · comedy · festivals · film · gay festival · ideas · music · rock music · science · secret garden party · shakespeare · summer
Birds Eye View is coming to Cambridge
February 28th, 2009 1 Comment
Birds Eye View will be fetching up at the Picture House Cambridge on Sunday 8th March as part of International Womens Day with a programme of interesting short films by women directors. Not many people in this country know there is an international womens day – it’s not something we think about so much here, [...]
Tags: BEV · birds eye view · cambridge · cinema · east anglia · east of england · festival · film · networking · new film · short film
A summer evening dancing
October 8th, 2008 No Comments
Totally outside the scope of this blog, in that it’s not homegrown in East Anglia and it’s not available by the weekend, but there’s one more night of the Richard Alston Dance Company at the Cambridge Arts theatre tonight. It is contemporary dance, which may make your mind glaze over and your eyes cross involuntarily, [...]
Tags: arts theatre · cambridge · contemporary · Dance · richard alston
Hidden Art in Cambridge
August 24th, 2008 1 Comment
Kettle’s Yard looks like a nice modern gallery from the street. They generally have interesting art exhibitions, and the quality of light is the gallery is lovely. So far so good, an ornament to Cambridge.
A while back, after visiting, I followed a sign out the back to the house at Kettles Yard, and fell down [...]
Tags: art · cambridge · cambridgeshire · east anglia · gallery · interior · kettles yard · modernism · objects · paintings