{"id":4264,"date":"2025-02-18T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=4264"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:04:13","slug":"swavesey-and-district-history-society-4","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/event\/swavesey-and-district-history-society-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Swavesey and District History Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

20 May.\u00a0 The Spinning House.\u00a0 How Cambridge University locked up women in their private prison.\u00a0 Caroline Biggs.<\/strong>\u00a0 In 1561 the university was granted legal powers to deny the townswomen of Cambridge basic rights.\u00a0 Josephine Butler (1828\u20131906) became famous for highlighting the iniquity of the Contagious Diseases Acts (CDAs) of the 1860s, based on the 1561 powers, whereby any woman suspected of being a prostitute or even being seen anywhere near a student could be spirited away by a university \u201cbulldog\u201d and imprisoned in the notoriously filthy Spinning House jail, with no right to appeal or to a trial by jury.\u00a0\u00a0 Emma Kemp was sentenced to fourteen days after being \u201cfound in the company of members of the university\u201d.\u00a0 Jane Elsden was given two weeks for \u201cnot coming quietly\u201d when hauled off the streets.\u00a0 Victorian hypocrisy is everywhere in this story.<\/p>\n

At least half of our members live in Over, including our Secretary.\u00a0 The History Society meets at 7.30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month in The Carol Shaw Room at Swavesey Village College \u2013 through the main entrance then 20 metres along the corridor to the right.\u00a0 No need to book so you are welcome to just walk in.\u00a0 If you want further information, contact our Secretary, Carolyn on carolyn.redmayne@ntlworld.com or on 01954 230037.<\/p>\n

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20 May.\u00a0 The Spinning House.\u00a0 How Cambridge University locked up women in their private prison.\u00a0 Caroline Biggs.\u00a0 In 1561 the university was granted legal powers to deny the townswomen of Cambridge basic rights.\u00a0 Josephine Butler (1828\u20131906) became famous for highlighting the iniquity of the Contagious Diseases Acts (CDAs) of the 1860s, based on the 1561 powers, whereby any woman suspected of being a prostitute or even being seen anywhere near a student could be spirited away by a university \u201cbulldog\u201d and imprisoned in the notoriously filthy Spinning House jail, with no right to appeal or to a trial by jury.\u00a0\u00a0 Emma Kemp was sentenced to fourteen days after being \u201cfound in the company of members of the university\u201d.\u00a0 Jane Elsden was given two weeks for \u201cnot coming quietly\u201d when hauled off the streets.\u00a0 Victorian hypocrisy is everywhere in this story. At least half of our members live in Over, including our Secretary.\u00a0 The History Society meets at 7.30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month in The Carol Shaw Room at Swavesey Village College \u2013 through the main entrance then 20 metres along the corridor to the right.\u00a0 No need to book so you are welcome to just walk in.\u00a0 If you want further information, contact our Secretary, Carolyn on carolyn.redmayne@ntlworld.com or on 01954 230037.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2399,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4264","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4264\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overvillage.co.uk\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}