From tutors to tailors, dons and drapers - outfitting the scholars and the town

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• Tuesday 27 October 2009, 19:30-20:30
• Cambridge & County Folk Museum, Castle Street.

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Town and gown relations were often bad, but the gownsmen needed clothes and the tailors and drapers needed customers. There were three times as many tailors in Cambridge as int he average town of c1800. How did the trade and the University co-operate and what was the student of the time wearing?

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