Stephanie Theobald (1966-) has been described as “One of London’s most celebrated literary lesbians.” Her family ran a chain of…
Gay Cambridge: The 1970s
Whilst the 60s is often (mis-)remembered as a decade of sexual liberation, the revolution didn’t really arrive until the 1970s.…
Writers of Cambridgeshire
Philip Hensher (1965-) is a journalist and author who lives in London with his husband Zaved Mahmood. He grew up…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an Austrian philosopher who lived and worked for much of his life in Cambridge. He had…
The History of Margaret Catchpole
In the early hours of Tuesday 23rd May 1797, a shadowy figure in breeches and a hat pulled low over…
Christina of Markyate
Christina of Markyate (c.1097-1155) was a Saxon holy woman and visionary from Huntingdon who founded a community of nuns in…
Pop Culture Classics
Pop Culture Classics From the Norfolk Coast to Dunstable Downs, the East of England is the home of some queer…
Cecil Belfield Clarke
Cecil Belfield Clarke (1894-1970) was a doctor and civil rights activist. He was born in Barbados in 1894 and won…
The Queen’s Dwarf
Sir Jeffrey Hudson (1619-1682) had a life stranger than fiction: from relative poverty in Oakham to a knight of the…
Stars of the Stage and Screen III
Derek Jacobi, Simon Russell Beale and Michael Redgrave – three of our foremost actors, all educated in Cambridge