"From tutors to tailors, dons and drapers"

A festival going on in Cambridge right now with a lovely name: the Festival of Ideas.

I left the lab somewhat early to take in one of the talks this evening, a talk on town-gown relationships at the Country Folk Museum. The hour-long talk explored the way that the university and town have interacted over the past 800 years by examining records of the clothing industry in Cambridge. It was quite interesting to hear some local history, see the roots of some of the university clothing traditions, and spend some time thinking about the college system, as it exists now, evolved.