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Newcomers and Visiting Scholars

 

Late Victorian Cambridge was a very unruly place, and the undergraduates could sometimes seem beyond any sort of control.  This talk is about a series of enormous celebratory bonfires the students lit in Cambridge's market place and their part in a great battle for control of the city's streets.

Date: 
Tuesday, 4 November, 2025 - 11:30 to 12:00