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

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

IWM History Festival - Saturday

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

How The British Fell in Love With Curry

 Wed, 18 Mar at 05:30 pm Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Free

The History of Mermaids, Sea Spirits & Women

 Sun, 01 Mar at 08:15 pm Cambridge Junction GBP 14 to 32

Tour of the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College Cambridge

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

Destroyer of worlds: the prequel and sequel to Oppenheimer

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

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

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

Peaky Blinders M**der Mystery

 Sat, 14 Mar at 04:30 pm CB1 1DY GBP 33

Sir Robert Rede's Lecture 2026: Reason versus Rationality: A History

 Tue, 17 Mar at 05:30 pm Queens' College Free

A Woman's Work - Elinor Cleghorn, at Heffers Bookshop

 Tue, 17 Mar at 06:00 pm Heffers Bookshop GBP 5 to 22

Anti-Americanism: A short history

 Thu, 19 Mar at 06:00 pm Little Hall 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

Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity

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

Ashtons Cambridge Charity Treasure Hunt

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

Farewell to Russia - Joe Luc Barnes, at Heffers Bookshop

 Thu, 19 Mar at 06:00 pm Heffers Bookshop GBP 5 to 22

Cambridgeshire Finds - Archaeology

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

Peer review, past, present… and future

 Mon, 16 Mar at 06:00 pm Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, (entrance to lecture theatre, adjacent to the Scott Polar Research Institute) Free

English adventures at sea: Drake, Raleigh and Frobisher, 1558-1603

 Wed, 18 Mar at 04:00 pm Queen Anne House, Gonville Place, Cambridge, UK GBP 5

AGENT ZO

 Wed, 18 Mar at 07:00 pm Rock Road Library Free

The Accoutrements of an Indian Dancer

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

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

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

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

The Archaeology of Wandlebury Hillfort: A Twilight Talk

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

Mapping Cambridge's History

 Thu, 12 Mar at 01:00 pm 2/3 Castle Street, CB3 0AQ Cambridge, United Kingdom

Modern Enquiries into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

 Thu, 05 Mar at 09:00 am King's College, Cambridge Free

International Women's Day Craft Workshop: Celebrate Rosalind Franklin

 Sun, 08 Mar at 01:00 pm The LAB GBP 30 to 40

Women's History Month Edit-a-thon

 Sat, 14 Mar at 02:00 pm Cambridge Central Library Free

“Give Us Our Blue Skies Back”: Women in Postwar Japan, 1950-1969

 Tue, 03 Mar at 05:00 pm Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Free

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

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

Music in the flesh

 Tue, 17 Mar at 01:30 pm Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge 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

Standing Cambridge: Understanding Buildings in a Historic City

 Sat, 14 Mar at 09:00 am Cripps Lecture Theatre. Magdalene College GBP 10 to 20

Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World

 Fri, 20 Mar at 06:30 pm Cambridge University Press Bookshop Free

Grimms Fairy Tales and nineteenth century superheroes

 Fri, 20 Mar at 06:00 pm Alison Richard Building, SG 1-2 Free

The Secret History of the String Quartet: Part III

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

Murder at the Grosvenor - Town and Gown, Cambridge

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

Creating Medieval GIFs

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

Spitfire Girls

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

500 Years of Science in Print

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

The Spiritual Person: An Intellectual Biography of Watchman Nee

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

Research and Design for Cultural Heritage Data and Experience

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

Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Leper Chapel Open Day

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

Cambridgeshire Murders

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

The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography

 Thu, 26 Feb at 02:15 pm Richard Eden Suite, West Court Free

Doing Mathematics in the Archive

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

How Eastern thinking influenced Western culture

 Fri, 20 Mar at 05:30 pm Ancient India and Iran Trust Free

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

A10 SHOW & SHINE IWM DUXFORD

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

Workshop: Discovering pressed plants in books, and how to care for them

 Thu, 12 Mar at 02:30 pm Cambridge University Library Free

Discover Cambridge Central Mosque

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

Slade Lectures in Fine Art 2026 with Professor Terry Smith

 Tue, 27 Jan at 05:00 pm Bateman Auditorium Free

From Darwin to Dodos: Guided Tour of the Museum of Zoology

 Fri, 14 Oct at 03:00 pm Museum Of Zoology 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

R. M. Dawkins and the British School at Athens

 Fri, 13 Mar at 02:00 pm Queens' College: Bowett Room Free

Book Launch of Moltmann in China by Dr Naomi Thurston

 Wed, 04 Mar at 03:30 pm Faculty of Divinity 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

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