Sex and the City: Cambridge Women, Town and Gown (n)
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Sex and the City: Cambridge Women, Town and Gown (n)

Sex and the City: Cambridge Women, Town and Gown

By Cambridge (UK) Women tours

Location

The Round Church

Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UB United Kingdom

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About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

This guided tour, led by Cambridge Green Badge guides, reveals the parts played by women in shaping the university, the town and the world beyond.

The founders of some of the oldest colleges were women yet Cambridge was the last university in the UK to award women degrees.

The university has the oldest police force in the world; find out how it was used to arrest and imprison women simply for being out on the street. Discover which of Henry 8th's wives saved all the colleges from destruction.

Learn about the great women scientists, eg the American who transformed cinematography, and even played a part in WW2 submarines. Then there were those who made great advances, but whose male colleagues got the Nobel prizes. And much more. Cambridge - where women are called "Masters" and men could become "Mistresses"!

Tickets are non refundable, but we will try to transfer you to another tour if possible.

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Cambridge (UK) Women tours

Cambridge (UK) Women tours run guided walks which uncover the traces of some of the hidden women woven into the fabric of the city. Sex workers and social reformers jostle with scientists and scholars. You will hear stories of townswomen - brewsters and bedders - as well as those who campaigned for a university education . You might learn why even the railway station is a gender issue!

From £21.43
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