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Flag Fen’s Summer Field School

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Vivacity helps local students dig into the past at Flag Fen’s Summer Field School Vivacity has joined forces with Dig Ventures to embark on an ambitious project – ‘Flag Fen Lives’ – at Flag Fen this summer. This July, for the first time in a decade, Flag Fen’s archaeological trenches will be open to the ..

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Heritage postcard vote launched

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Local residents are being urged to vote for their favourite Peterborough image to be turned into a free postcard Four images from two local heritage related projects will be whittled down to one from each through a public poll. Vote now at www.opportunitypeterborough.co.uk or here peterboroughbuildingsinneed.wordpress.com/postcard-vote/ Peterborough in Detail is one of the projects which ..

ENGINEERING EXPERTS NEEDED

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Peterborough Engineering Society is on the lookout for future speakers for its meetings through to 2014, running through the winter months from October to April The organisation, which has been in existence for over.. Continue Reading

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Dickens 2012 – 7 Feb

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On Tuesday 7th February 2012 Peterborough will be turning Dickensian! This Bicentenary Celebration Re-enactment and Talk will celebrate the life and work of Charles Dickens to mark the bicentenary of his birth in 2012... Continue Reading

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The Life and Times of William Shakespeare – 21 Dec

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Peterborough’s culture and leisure trust, Vivacity, stages a regular programme of interesting talks on a range of historical subjects throughout the year. These talks cover thousands of years of human history, personalities, social history, military topics, politics, art.. Continue Reading

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Forty Years On | The story of an expanding city

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From 1968 to 1988, the Peterborough Development Corporation transformed the city adding the parkway road system, cycleways, developing Nene Park, Queensgate Shopping Centre and three new townships at Orton, Bretton and Werrington, among many.. Continue Reading

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