History Events in Cambridge

Check out happening history events all around Cambridge, EN

A10 SHOW & SHINE

Sun, 26 Jul at 11:00 am IWM Duxford Museum

A10 SHOW & SHINE IWM DUXFORD

 Sun, 26 Jul at 11:00 am IWM Duxford GBP 0 to 29

Translation and Grieving - By Cristina Rivera Garza

 Wed, 13 May at 05:30 pm Old Combination Room - Trinity College Free

Breathing in Unison: The Archive and the Senses - By Cristina Rivera Garza

 Wed, 29 Apr at 05:30 pm Winstanley Lecture Theatre - Trinity College Free

Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge

 Mon, 30 Mar at 06:00 pm Cambridge Union Society Free

IWM History Festival - Saturday

 Sat, 13 Jun at 10:00 am Imperial War Museum Duxford, CB22 4QR Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ancient Oak Fayre Medieval/ Viking, Pagan and Fantasy

 Sat, 05 Sep at 09:30 am Quy Park, Stow Road, CB25 9AF Stow cum Quy, United Kingdom

Destroyer of worlds: the prequel and sequel to Oppenheimer

 Tue, 31 Mar at 06:00 pm Centre for Mathematical Sciences Free

Cambridge Antiques & Vintage Fair

 Sun, 22 Mar at 10:30 am Cambridge regional College sports center

An Evening with Dr Jess Venner in Cambridge

 Wed, 29 Apr at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 25

Bottisham at War 2026 - 1940's Weekend - Bigger, Better and Unforgettable!

 Sat, 27 Jun at 10:00 am Bottisham Airfield Museum GBP 5 to 77

Murder at the Grosvenor - Town and Gown, Cambridge

 Thu, 23 Apr at 07:30 pm Town and Gown Pub & Theatre - Cambridge

Tour of the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College Cambridge

 Tue, 03 Mar at 02:00 pm Parker Library GBP 11

The Econ/Maths walk

 Sat, 21 Mar at 10:45 am Marshall Library of Economics Free

Love of Rumi – flow and spirit: a performative fashion show

 Sat, 21 Mar at 07:00 pm Mumford Theatre GBP 28

Ghost Writers on the Cam

 Sun, 22 Mar at 02:00 pm Cambridge GBP 17

The Science and Secrets of Cambridge: Time-travelling with a duck

 Sat, 21 Mar at 11:30 am Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology Free

The Brontë Sisters: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey & more

 Sun, 03 May at 04:30 pm Cambridge Junction GBP 14 to 32

Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity

 Sat, 28 Mar at 11:00 am Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Seminar Room 1 Free

Cambridge Festival 2026: What’s Your Mill Road?

 Tue, 24 Mar at 06:00 pm Mill Road Community Centre

Ashtons Cambridge Charity Treasure Hunt

 Thu, 14 May at 04:30 pm West Court GBP 160

The life and works of William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

 Wed, 25 Mar at 04:00 pm Queen Anne House, Gonville Place, Cambridge, UK GBP 5

The Accoutrements of an Indian Dancer

 Mon, 18 May at 05:30 pm Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Free

From past to future: 50 years of the School of Clinical Medicine

 Mon, 30 Mar at 08:00 pm Cambridge Union Society Free

Cambridgeshire Finds - Archaeology

 Fri, 15 May at 10:15 am Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology GBP 80

The Common Cold: 30,000 Years of the Sniffles with Dr David Miles

 Tue, 31 Mar at 07:30 pm The Blue Moon

The Archaeology of Wandlebury Hillfort: A Twilight Talk

 Fri, 17 Apr at 06:00 pm McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Free

Offa - Rory Naismith, at Heffers Bookshop

 Thu, 30 Apr at 06:00 pm Heffers Bookshop GBP 5 to 30

Sultans, Syntax, And Scripture: Queens' Library Exhibition Curators' Talk

 Sat, 21 Mar at 02:30 pm Queens' College Old Library Free

Farewell to Norms? Historical Perspectives on Global Reordering

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Bowett Room, Queens' College Free

Creating Medieval GIFs

 Sat, 28 Mar at 09:00 am GR03, Faculty of English Free

Hidden Star – The Story of Annie Walker

 Fri, 27 Mar at 07:00 pm Institute of Astronomy Free

Terror Tales of Cambridge, by Frederick Cowles

 Fri, 03 Apr at 07:30 pm The Leper Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene GBP 14

Tudor Contemporary: Curator's Roundtable

 Fri, 27 Mar at 05:00 pm Howard Theatre Free

500 Years of Science in Print

 Thu, 19 Mar at 02:00 pm Whipple Library Free

Spitfire Girls

 Tue, 07 Apr at 07:30 pm 6 St Edwards Passage, CB2 3PJ Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leper Chapel Open Day

 Sun, 29 Mar at 01:30 pm Leper Chapel, Cambridge

Leper Chapel Open Day

 Sun, 22 Mar at 01:30 pm Leper Chapel, Cambridge

Research and Design for Cultural Heritage Data and Experience

 Tue, 14 Apr at 05:30 pm GR06/07 Faculty of English Free

America, the Baltic States and the making of an unlikely Security Alliance

 Wed, 20 May at 05:30 pm Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College Free

The Secret History of the String Quartet: Part III

 Wed, 29 Apr at 07:00 pm Pavilion Rm, Hughes Hall, Free

The Spiritual Person: An Intellectual Biography of Watchman Nee

 Thu, 07 May at 04:00 pm Faculty of Divinity Free

Cambridgeshire Murders

 Mon, 30 Mar at 07:30 pm Willingham Social Club

Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

 Wed, 24 Jun at 09:00 am Winstanley Lecture Theatre - Trinity College Free

Doing Mathematics in the Archive

 Sat, 16 May at 10:30 am Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences GBP 0 to 36

Spooky Cambridge Tour

 Fri, 06 Mar at 07:00 pm Magdalene College GBP 13 to 25

Drama Queens of the Georgian Period: A tragi-comic entertainment

 Thu, 02 Apr at 01:00 pm The Faculty of English, Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio Free

Politics and Culture at the Late Stuart Courts, 1649-1714

 Tue, 07 Apr at 09:30 am Christ's College, Cambridge Free

Baltic Symposium "1945 in the Baltic and its legacies"

 Mon, 13 Apr at 09:15 am McCrum Lecture Theatre Free

Theatre buildings in Cambs talk

 Fri, 10 Apr at 02:00 pm Cambridge Central Library Free

Discover Cambridge Central Mosque

 Sat, 20 Apr at 01:00 pm Cambridge Central Mosque Free

Black History of Science Tours

 Sat, 15 Nov at 10:30 am Whipple Museum of the History of Science Free

CWGC Volunteering Day at Cambridge City Cemetery

 Thu, 23 Apr at 10:00 am Cambridge City Cemetery Free

DAY 1: Cambridge Heritage Research Centre 26th Annual Symposium

 Fri, 08 May at 09:00 am McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Free

Short Course: Topics in Church History - Medieval Church History

 Tue, 05 May at 02:00 pm Westcott House GBP 200

Talk - The Human and the Nonhuman in the Tragedies of Jean Racine

 Sat, 21 Mar at 02:00 pm 1 Red Cross Lane CB2 0QU Cambridge Free car park (Bell Foundation) Free

Bridging Binaries tour: LGBQT+ history of science

 Wed, 02 Apr at 02:30 pm Whipple Museum of the History of Science Free

Whipple Highlights Tour

 Wed, 13 Aug at 01:00 pm Whipple Museum of the History of Science Free

Symposium on Christian Mission

 Fri, 17 Apr at 11:00 am Westminster College Free

Scholars, Punting & Timeless Grace in Cambridge Audio Tour

 Tue, 08 Apr at 08:00 am Trinity Lane USD 15

Tour of the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College Cambridge

 Thu, 11 May at 02:00 pm Parker Library GBP 11

Treasure Hunt Cambridge - Colleges and Courtyards - 2-2½ hours

 Fri, 09 Oct at 08:00 am Great St Mary's Church GBP 24

Discover Liverpool’s hidden gems with an exciting scavenger hunt!

 Sun, 03 Nov at 07:00 am Parker's Piece USD 9 to 16