Courts known as assizes met every 3 months to preside over the most serious local criminal cases... [Read more...]
Victorian
Museum of Cambridge
c. 1870 - 1890
The [artificial] nipple need never be removed till replaced with a new one… and will last... [Read more...]
Museum of Cambridge
19th century
The [artificial] nipple need never be removed till replaced with a new one… and will last... [Read more...]
Museum of Cambridge
c.1830 - 1860
The [artificial] nipple need never be removed till replaced with a new one… and will last... [Read more...]
History Centre, Coventry
mid-19th century
Stalls at St John's Hospital by Nathaniel Troughton.
Cambridgeshire Police Museum
Late 19th century
Although some crimes committed by children were still punishable by death, by the early... [Read more...]
Wisbech and Fenland Museum
1876
George Kirby from Upwell, Cambridgeshire was caught stealing 2 hooks worth 6 pence from Mr... [Read more...]
University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
19th century
Clogs were common throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in the north... [Read more...]
March and District Museum
19th century
As we can see from Bruegel’s Children’s Games, the hoop and stick was a popular game in... [Read more...]
Museum of Cambridge
c.1890
This wooden train consisting of an engine and one carriage is painted with the initials of the... [Read more...]