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. This unfortunate anomaly will be rectified by the creation of Cambridge Children’s Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Scheduled […]
Speaker: Victor Lucas, U3AC member, and former High Sheriff Synopsis: The Office of High Sheriff is the oldest secular Office in the United Kingdom, and dates from Saxon times. The word ‘Sheriff’ derives from ‘Shire Reeve’. 27 clauses in Magna Carta relate to the Sheriff. This talk examines the history of this ancient Office, The […]