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Historic Cambridge

Explore our beautiful city, see its magnificent buildings and find out the amazing stories of the famous people and achievements that changed the world and shaped this city - the home of one of the world’s leading universities.

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St John’s College
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St John's College - Cambridge
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King's College Chapel
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Corpus Christi College
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Senate House Leap
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Trinity Lane
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Medieval house
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St John's College
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Cambridge Highlights 1½ hour tour | £100

A more leisurely tour which allows more time to discover the city and cover its main highlights such as the world-famous Old Cavendish Laboratory, St Bene’t’s 11th century church, the Corpus Clock, the Senate House and Great St Mary’s Church.

This tour can include, if you wish, a brief visit into a college court and chapel, subject to opening times and availability.
Cambridge Colleges and Highlights 2 hour tour | £110

This is the most popular tour, which allows you enough time to see more of the Cambridge highlights, and to find out about the University and colleges, their history and architecture, scientific discoveries, student life, and much more.

We can also visit a historic college or the magnificent King’s College Chapel, subject to opening times.
King's College, Queens' College and Highlights 2½ hour tour | £120

Many visitors want the opportunity to visit both the magnificent King’s College and the beautiful Queens’ College, and this tour allows enough time to explore both colleges, as well as seeing some other Cambridge highlights.

The prices listed for our tours are the costs for the entire group of up to 12 people. However please note that the admission fees levied by many of the colleges are payable in addition to the basic tour fee.

Also, please note that the colleges are independent private institutions which may close at short notice. In such an event, I will try to arrange to visit a different college. All colleges close to the public during the annual examination period which runs from late April to mid-June. King’s College Chapel remains open during this period, but the college grounds will be closed to visitors.

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Women in Cambridge

This tour tells the surprising, shocking - and sometimes funny - story of how women have made their mark on the University and City of Cambridge, from the medieval founders to today’s senior academics, heads of colleges, and influential alumnae.

Denied an education at the university for the first 650 years of its existence, women - backed by their male supporters - faced extraordinary challenges to gain access and equality.

Florence Ada Keynes
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Birthday Sparks

Agnata Ramsey Punch cartoon
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Waiting for the vote
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Effigy of girl on bicycle
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Waiting for the vote
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Effigy of girl on bicycle
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Early enthusiasm for change put Cambridge in the vanguard of Victorian educational reform, and with their fighting spirit, alumnae of the first women’s colleges made an indelible mark on the city and country, through pioneering civic and social activism.

But the promising start for women turned into resistance and violent protest, making the university the last in Britain to award women full degrees when it finally did so in 1948.

So, who did what along a long and rocky road to ensure that today’s Cambridge women take it for granted that they have as much right to be here as the men?

And why did it take so long?