Speaker: Patricia Fara, an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, is a historian of science who has written several popular books and is a regular contributor to In our Time and other radio/TV programmes. The First World War was a national event with local implications. Many Cambridge women took over traditionally male roles, including some […]
Speaker: Dr Julian Doberski, U3AC member First degree in Zoology was followed by an MSc in Forestry and a PhD in Cambridge on fungal diseases of elm bark beetles – the carriers of Dutch elm disease. Spent over thirty years lecturing at Anglia Ruskin University centred on ecology. Our students had the good fortune of […]
Speaker: Terry M Holloway FRAeS Aviation Consultant and Freelance Flying Instructor A former Royal Air Force Officer, who took early retirement in 1995 in the rank of Group Captain, and who has subsequently followed a highly successful second career in Industry, gaining extensive Board level experience. Led an RAF expedition to Chile in 1996, […]
Note: Speaker is on ZOOM Speaker: Kent Roach, C.M., F.R.S.C. is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has been the editor in chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly since 1998. He is a co-founder of the Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions www.wrongfulconvictions.ca. He has written widely and appeared as a barrister before […]
Speaker: Nigel Fenner, author of ‘Cambridge Sport: in Fenner’s Hands’ Synopsis: Frank Fenner, a local tobacconist who, across the middle of the 20th century, did much more than found Fenner’s Cricket Ground In the second half of the nineteenth century, England was experiencing a sporting revolution that went global, with Cambridge, and perhaps Frank Fenner, […]
Speaker: David Oates, U3AC Member interested in heraldry since his schooldays Synopsis: The 39 coats of arms on the Orwell chancel ceiling are a remarkable and unique survival from the fourteenth century, commemorating the rise, fall and restoration of Sir Simon Burley, an important figure during the troubled reign of the young King Richard II, […]
Speaker: Bernard Lockett, Trustee of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival Synopsis: A background, overview and assessment of the works; then a consideration of the social and political satire within; finally to see the world wide popularity of the shows in the 21st C and modern production values.
Speaker: Dame Mary Archer, co-chair of the Campaign Board raising funds to build Cambridge Children’s Hospital Synopsis: The East of England is the only area of the country that does not have a specialist children’s hospital. The unfortunate anomaly will be rectified by the creation of the Cambridge Children’s Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. […]