The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of London and is surrounded by a number of smaller towns and villages. It is also at the heart of Silicon Fen, which has a reputation as the leading high-technology centre of Britain, mostly because both Acorn Computers and Sinclair were founded there, and is one of the majo ...

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In the 1950s the English children's writer Philippa Pearce created a fictionalised version of Cambridge known as "Castleford" (not connected to the real town of the same name in West Yorkshire). It appears in several of her books, most notably "Tom's Midnight Garden" and "Minnow on the Say". The main distinguishing point between "Castleford" and the real Cambridge is that this "Castleford" does not have a university, apparently because the author wanted the readers to think of the town in itself, and she felt that Cambridge was too closely associated with its university in the public ...

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The diversity of the population is striking. Residents, known as Cantabrigians (although the term isn't in common currency as it is in Cambridge, England), range from distinguished Harvard professors to working-class families to immigrants from around the world. This diversity contributes to the liberal atmosphere, and may be compared to Berkeley, California, in some respects. It is sometimes referred to as the "People's Republic of Cambridge" because of the city's famously liberal politics; The city, as it grows weal ...

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The college's central buildings were designed by Richard Sheppard, and built on the 42 acre (170,000 m²) west Cambridge site through the purchase of a farm between 1958 and the college's opening two years later. The central dining hall is the largest in Cambridge and formals can cater for up to 420 guests In the centre of the college is the Churchill Archive Centre opened in 1974 to provide a home to Sir Winston's papers, and also more recently endowed with papers from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In 1992, the Møller Centre for Continuing Educa ...

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The college was founded in 1326 by the university's Chancellor, Richard de Badew, and named University Hall. Providing maintenance for only two fellows, however, it soon hit financial hardship. In 1338 the college was refounded as Clare Hall by an endowment from Elizabeth de Clare, a granddaughter of Edward I, that provided for twenty fellows and ten students. The college was known as Clare Hall up until 1856, when it changed its name to Clare College. (A new Clare Hall was foun ...

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Settlements have existed around the area since before the Roman Empire. The earliest clear evidence of occupation, a collection of hunting weapons, is from the Late Bronze Age, starting around 1000 BC. There is further archaeological evidence through the Iron Age, a Belgic tribe having settled on Castle Hill in the 1st century BC. The first major development of the area began with the Roman invasion of Britain in about AD 40. Castle Hill made Cambridge a useful place for a military outpost from which to defend the River Cam. It was al ...

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Cambridge is host to many public and private schools serving the children of Cambridge. The 12 public elementary schools include: Amigos School Baldwin School Cambridgeport School Fletcher-Maynard Academy Graham & Parks School Haggerty School Kennedy/Longfellow School King Open School Martin Luther King Jr. School Morse School Peabody School Tobin School There is only one public high school in Cambridge, whic ...

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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Road. Cambridge has an irregular street network due to the fact that many of the roads date from the colonial era. Contrary to popular belief, the road system did not evolve from longstanding cow-paths. Roads connected various village settlements with each other and nearby towns, and were shaped by geographic features, most notably streams, hills, and swampy areas. Several major roads lead to Cambridge, including the Massachusetts Turnpike (Exit 18), Route 2, Route 16 and the McGrath Hi ...

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Cambridge is located at 42°22'25" North, 71°6'38" West 42.373746° N 71.110554° W GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 18.5 km² (7.1 mi²). 16.7 km² (6.4 mi²) of it is land and 1.8 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 9.82% water. Cambridge is bordered by the city of Boston on its south and east (across the Charles River), by the city of Somerville and the town of Arlington to its north, and by ...

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As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 101,355 people, 42,615 households, and 17,599 families residing in the city. The population density is 6,086.1/km² (15,766.1/mi²). There are 44,725 housing units at an average density of 2,685.6/km² (6,957.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 68.10% White, 11.92% Black or African American, 0.29% Native American, 11.88% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 3.19% from other races, and 4.56% from two or more races. 7. ...

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Cambridge has a 9-member City Council, and a 6-member School Committee. The councillors and school committee members are elected every two years using the single transferable vote (STV) system. [1] Since the disbanding of the New York City Community School Boards in 2002, the Council is unusual in being the only governing body in the United States to use STV [2]. Once a laborious process that took s ...

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The Cambridge Apostles, also known as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, is an elite intellectual secret society at Cambridge University, founded in 1820 by George Tomlinson, a Cambridge student who went on to become the Bishop of Gibraltar. The society takes its name from the idea that its members are supposedly the 12 cleverest students at Cambridge. The active membership consists largely of undergraduates, though there have been graduate student members. The society traditionally centered around King's College and T ...

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Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of Cambridge, England, the town where its founding fathers had studied (at Cambridge University). Cambridge is most famous for the two prominent universities that call it home: Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1 ...

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The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. It is widely considered one of the world's most elite universities. Early records indicate that the university grew out of an association of scholars in the city of Cambridge, England, probably formed in 1209 by scholars escaping fr ...

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The Cambridge Platonists were a group of philosophers at Cambridge University, England in the middle of the 17th century (between 1633 and 1688). Cambridge Platonists - Programme. The Cambridge Platonists were reacting to two pressures. On the one hand, the narrow dogmatism of the Puritan divines, with their anti-rationalist (if not anti-intellectual) demands, were, they felt, immoral and incorrect. They also felt that the Puritan/Calvinist insistence upon individual revelation left God uninvolved with the ...

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Clare College is a college of the University of Cambridge, the second oldest surviving college after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and also for its gardens, which form part of what is known as the Backs (essentially the rear part of colleges which are next to the River Cam). The current Master is Anthony (Tony) J Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History. Clare College Cambridge - History. The college was founded in 1326 by the university's Chancellor, Richard de Bad ...

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The Cambridge Folk Festival is renowned for its eclectic mix of music and a wide definition of what might be considered folk. It occurs over a long weekend (3 1/2 days) in summer at Cherry Hinton Hall. 2004 was its 40th anniversary. The festival is very popular and tickets sell out quickly. Cambridge Folk Festival - History. In autumn 1964 Cambridge City Council decided to hold a music festival the next summer and asked Ken Woollard a local firefighter and socialist political activist to help organise it. K ...

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The Cambridge Five (also sometimes known as the Cambridge Four) was a ring of British spies who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and into the early 1950s. It has been suggested they may also have been responsible for passing Soviet disinformation to the Nazis. Proven members included Kim Philby (cryptonym: Stanley), Donald Duart Maclean, Guy Burgess (cryptonym: Hicks), and Anthony Blunt (cryptonym: Johnson). Several other persons h ...

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Churchill College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge and was founded in 1960 as the national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill. Churchill is situated on the outskirts of the town away from the traditional centre of old Cambridge, but close to the University's main new development zone. Its 40 acres (160,000 m²) of grounds make it the physically largest of all the colleges. Churchill was one of the first three men's colleges to admit women in 1972; the others ...

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