What is your experience as a woman of having a career in the sciences or trying to enter the sciences? Did you face any challenges due to gender inequalities? What does it feel like to be heard or unheard? What does it feel like to be respected or disregarded? What does it feel like to be hidden or silenced?
We are looking for women who have worked or work in the sciences to spend a creative afternoon at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science getting hands-on making a zine, and exploring your experiences within the field of science.
The Romans are here! They've marched through the countryside of ancient Britain, bringing their strange customs and scary soldiers. But what happens next? Will you become a Roman or join the resistance? Will you explore the Mediterranean sea or stay at home? That's entirely up to you!
Join us as we welcome archaeologist and TV presenter Raksha Dave (from Time Team and Digging for Britain) to celebrate her new children's book Lessons From Our Ancestors: Equality, Inclusivity and Sustainability in the Ancient World.
We at the University of Cambridge Museums are eager to have a conversation with you about our ongoing work exploring the legacies of empire and enslavement in our collections.
Discover complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections.
Join us for The Power Walk series - an opportunity to share and exchange stories and ideas linked to the University of Cambridge Museum's investigation of the legacies of empire and enslavement, power and memory with our communities and audiences.
Discover complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections.
Join us for The Power Walk series - an opportunity to share and exchange stories and ideas linked to the University of Cambridge Museum's investigation of the legacies of empire and enslavement, power and memory with our communities and audiences.
Discover complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections.
Join us for The Power Walk series - an opportunity to share and exchange stories and ideas linked to the University of Cambridge Museum's investigation of the legacies of empire and enslavement, power and memory with our communities and audiences.
What is your experience of speaking out? What does it feel like to be heard or unheard? What does it feel like to be hidden or silenced? Spend a creative afternoon at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science getting hands-on, and exploring your experiences of power.
Zine making is an exciting and accessible tool that can be used to record personal experiences giving agency to the maker and can represent acts of resistance against power. Zines have been used to protest, resist and encourage collective activism.
History is written by the conquerors – and the Romans conquered other peoples from Africa to the middle East to ancient Britain. But what was it like to live on the fringes of the empire, under Roman rule? For one evening, grab a glass of wine and try to find your way through the porticoes of power – can you subvert your imperial overlords? Unravel your story in our choose-your-own adventure.
Libraries and museums across the world are filled with the remnants of the Greek and Roman past: objects, manuscripts, literary works, papyri, inscriptions… not to mention copious amounts of ink spilt on understanding them. But access to this classical past has not always been equal – and, in fact, a classical education was historically the preserve of the rich. So who owns the past?
