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17/09/2026

This is your final chance to join us for our special event, celebrating the launch of our Prehistories of Partition podcast!

📆 Friday 18 Sep @ 5:00pm
🎟 Your ticket includes a guided walking tour + dinner at !
🔗 Book at the link in our bio

Can't make dinner? You have the option to join us for the tour only!

Led by Dr. Erin O'Halloran, the guided walk through Cambridge will trace key strands of this complex history, revealing how members of the University were entangled in shaping the post-colonial world.

And you can listen to Episode One NOW wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

08/09/2026

The teaser for our new podcast, Cambridge Prehistory of Partitions is here!

We're delighted to share a preview for our brand new project based on the Prehistory of Partitions walking tour, in collaboration with Dr. Erin OHalloran and hosted by Uncomfortable Cambridge's own Waqas Mirza.

You can listen to the full trailer & follow us on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.

And don't forget we are celebrating the launch of the podcast with a walking tour & dinner to follow at Dishoom Permit Room!

📅 Friday 18th September from 5:00pm-8:00pm

🔗 Link in bio!

05/09/2026

There are a few tickets still remaining for our exciting podcast launch at ✨

Join us for a very special evening celebrating our new podast, the Cambridge Prehistory of Partitions. We will begin our evening with a very special walking tour led by Dr. Erin O'Halloran (author of East of Empire) retrace the physical spaces and explore the lives of the student radicals, diplomats, and intellectuals whose activism in Cambridge a century ago still echoes in global geopolitics today.

Following the tour, the conversation continues over a curated dinner at the Permit Room. Designed in the spirit of a retro 1970s Bombay speakeasy, this atmospheric setting provides the perfect backdrop to digest the afternoon's complex histories, raise a toast to the podcast launch, and enjoy a vibrant menu of food and drinks.

📆 Thurs, 18th Sep @ 5:00pm-8:00pm
🎟 Ticket price includes both the walking tour & dinner

About the podcast: Hosted by Waqas Mirza of Uncomfortable Cambridge and featuring Dr. Erin O'Halloran as our expert researcher, the series will take you from the cobblestone streets of Cambridge to the smoky back rooms of political intrigue which led to the ideation and origins of two monumental moments of partition: dividing people, cultures, and nations across the globe.

Book soon at the link in our bio 🔗

04/09/2026

Just ten days until we return to Open Cambridge with our African Legacies in Cambridge Museums tour!

📆 Sunday, 13th & 20th September from 14:30-16:00
🎟 Booking is free - follow the link in our bio!

There are still a few spots left, so grab them while you can!

02/09/2026

New blog! 📰

How Cambridge Lost Its Common Land: The History of Enclosure
by Ruari Paterson-Achenbach

Discover how centuries of legal seizures transformed Cambridge's open pasture into private property in this blog adapted from a talk given at the 'Beating of the Bounds' on Stourbridge Common.

Read the full article on our blog (🔗 in bio)!

31/08/2026

We are less than 3 weeks out from the Cambridge Alumni Festival!

Join us for our popular Dangerous Ideas? Science + Society tour, where we will trace the city’s scientific history, from splitting the atom to uncovering the structure of DNA. Along the way, your guide will encourage participants to reflect on what lies behind these breakthroughs: the unintended consequences of scientific progress; the financial and social structures that shape research; ethical grey areas; and the ways these discoveries continue to echo in science today.

📆 Fri 18th Sep @ 16:00 & 18:00; Sun 20th Sep @ 10:30
📍The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RP
🎟 Book online via the Cambridge Alumni Festival website (link in bio!)

28/08/2026

We are so excited to announce our schedule of tours this September:

💡 Original Uncomfortable Cambridge Tour
📆 Every Sat @ 14:30

🔎 Cambridge & Colonialism - City Tour
📆 Sat 5th Sep @ 11:00

🏳️‍🌈 Power, Women & Q***r History - City Tour
📆 Sat 12th Sep @ 11:00

🌍 African Legacies in Cambridge - Museum Tour
📆 Sun 13th Sep & 20th Sep @ 14:30

🔭 Uncomfortable Science - Whipple Museum
📆 Fri 25th Aug @ 14:30

We are also hosting a very special Prehistories of Partition Walking Tour + dinner at to celebrate the launch of our brand new podcast "The Cambridge Prehistory of Partition."

📅 Thursday, 18 September, 5:00PM-8:00PM
📍 Permit Room, CB2 1TB
🎟 Ticket includes the walking tour & dinner

See you there! Link in bio to book 🔗

27/08/2026

This weekend: final chance to use our 50% discount on August walking tours!

💡 Uncomfortable Science - Whipple Museum Tour
📆 Friday, 28th August @ 2:30-3:45PM

💡 The Original Uncomfortable Cambridge Tour
📆 Saturday, 29th August @ 2:30-4:00PM

💡 African Legacies in Cambridge - Museum Tour
📆 Sunday, 30th August @ 2:30-4:00PM

🎟 Enter code "CAM-SUMMER-26" at check-out to receive your discount

There are still a few spots left, so book now to reserve your spot! 🔗

26/08/2026

Join us for an exclusive evening to celebrate the launch of our new podcast series, The Cambridge Prehistory of Partition at 🔈

📆 Thursday, 18 September, 5:00PM-8:00PM
📍Permit Room, CB2 1TB

Adapted from the book East of Empire, The Cambridge Prehistory of Partition Podcast explores how the university town was deeply entangled in global decolonisation and division. Often viewed as a detached academic sanctuary, 20th-century Cambridge was actually a crucial laboratory where the modern maps of South Asia and the Middle East were debated, re-envisioned, and drafted into existence. This podcast brings those hidden histories to light, tracing how decisions made in these quiet quadrangles shaped the modern partitions of India-Pakistan and Palestine-Israel.

Hosted by Waqas Mirza of Uncomfortable Cambridge, and featuring Dr. Erin O'Halloran as the expert researcher, the series will take you from the cobblestone streets of Cambridge to the smoky back rooms of political intrigue which led to the ideation and origins of two monumental moments of partition: dividing people, cultures, and nations across the globe.

The evening will begin with our 'Prehistory of Partition' walking tour led by Dr. O'Halloran, and end with a fantastic dinner at Permit Room, which was designed in the in the spirit of a retro 1970s Bombay speakeasy.

Space is strictly limited, so book soon to secure your spot!

Book at link in our bio 🔗

11/08/2026

Uncomfortable Cambridge x Open Cambridge

We're heading back to Open Cambridge on the 13th & 20th of September with our (previously sold-out) African Legacies Tour!

Join us & step inside Cambridge museums for a thought-provoking journey into African collections and histories within the University.

💡 African Legacies in Cambridge Museums Tour - Open Cambridge
📆 13th & 20th September @ 2:30pm
🎟 Tickets are free - but they are already going very quickly!

Visit the link in our bio to reserve your spot, or to learn more about this tour & the groundbreaking research it was inspired by 🔗

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