There’s an old owl in town….
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Together Culture – co-operation in a University City
The Together Culture collective have a new project coming up. They are asking you to imagine what you’d build ‘if you had a million pounds to invest in community-owned infrastructure here.’ More details are at https://www.togetherculture.com/events “Given Cambridge’s housing and land prices, that might get you a small lock-up and a micro-forecourt if you’re lucky”…
Reconnecting Cambridge by rail with east coast seaside resorts like Great Yarmouth
Can someone make a high profile case for re-connecting a fast-growing Cambridge to the seaside by train like in the olden days? Image – The draft East of England Plan of March 2010 which you can read here. I wrote about it back in 2022 in a blogpost saying that not everything needed to be…
The powerful case for lifelong learning by the Committee for Adult Education 1919
Titled ‘Industrial and social conditions in relation to adult education’, the document was published in 1919 as a one of a series of interim reports, and yet it resonates far more than any corporate report of recent times. This is what it said about local government in paragraph 18 of the report “The general environment…
The Cambridge Town Owl 