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Welcome to details about our 2025/26 Speaker programme.

We use a number of different venues so always check the details. Our usual talks are held at the renovated Chapel in Wisbech General Cemetery. However, for speaker events where we expect a large turnout we have started using Wisbech Rugby club. We also have the occasional meeting at the Secret Garden, so…..always check the detail on the poster and always book. Speakers are being booked all the time so if one month doesn’t have a speaker, then they haven’t yet been booked. We don’t have a speaker in December, and it’s our AGM in April. The speaker season starts in September and the last talk is usually in March.

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Get thee to a Nunnery

March 25 @ 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
£4

Craig Cessford of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit will be speaking about Medieval nunneries in the Diocese of Ely.

Nunneries were the most significant female institutions in medieval England and the Diocese of Ely, which broadly corresponds to modern Cambridgeshire, was home to several including the abbeys of Chatteris and Waterbeach/Denny and priories in Cambridge, Ickleton, Papley/Eltisley, Swaffham Bulbeck and possibly Longstowe. Some of these have substantial surviving buildings and documentary records and there have been a number of archaeological excavations.
Craig Cessford has worked locally for the Cambridge Archaeological Unit for over twenty years and is currently writing up excavations at the nunnery the Priory of St Radegund in Cambridge as well as researching nunneries more generally.

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