Cambridge Sports Tours

10/05/2025

Important fundraiser for the excellent Museum of Cambridge

Cambridge is well known for rowing due to the University's annual participation in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race🚣, but what other sports grew and developed here?

Join us for a talk next Thursday about Cambridge's sporting revolution with Nigel Fenner, and discover how a local tobacconist was involved!

🕖 Time: 1:00-2:00PM
🗓️ Date: Thursday 15 May 2025
📍 Location: Museum of Cambridge
💰 Cost: Donate As You Feel
🔗 Book here: museumofcambridge.org.uk/event/talk-cambridges-sporting-revolution/

26/04/2025

Important fundraiser for Cambridge’s local museum

Explore the history of sport in Cambridge with Nigel Fenner, author of ‘Cambridge Sport: in Fenner’s hands’! Cambridge had a significant involvement in the English sporting revolu…

21/07/2024

Spaces still available on my 'Cambridge and the Olympics' walking tour starting 10.30am at Magdalene Bridge this Thursday 25th July with a fitting finale at the Paris 1924 Sport, Art and the Body exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum. It's an outstanding exhibition demonstrating that sport has close links to so many facets of our lives such as race, gender, class, nationalism, fine art.....even childcare and the cult of celebrity. If you want to book a place go to www.cambridgesportstours.co.uk
(Image shows front cover of exhibition catalogue, which is also excellent.)

13/07/2024

Come on my walking tour, ‘Cambridge and the Olympics’ (going back to the 16th century) starting 10.30am on Magdalene Bridge and finishing at the Olympics exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum (with tickets booked) on 25 July.

Did you know at the Paris 1924 Olympics, if the University of Cambridge had been a country, it would have come 9th in the medal table?

A major exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge brings together the momentous events at this pivotal Games – the first black athlete to win an individual gold medal, the groundbreaking outfits worn by female tennis players, the fact that women were competing, something that went unacknowledged in 'Chariots of Fire'.

And the art – this Games had a lasting, profound impact on art, design, society and more. Find out how: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/fitzwilliam-paris-1924-beyond-chariots-of-fire?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

07/07/2024

Cambridge held the Olympic Games in the 16th and 17th centuries - on the nearby Gog Magog hills. Find out more, plus the real 'Chariot's of Fire' story, and who won Olympic gold, scored a maximum 147 break in Snooker, a century at Lord’s Cricket Ground, and captained both Manchester City F.C and and the England national football team? Join a walking tour through Cambridge on 25th July finishing at Fitzwilliam Museum to also view the 'Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body' exhibition. For more info go to 'Olympic Games - walking tour' at https://www.cambridgesportstours.co.uk/
(Image used from Wellcome Foundation: front cover of Olympic Games Stockholm 1912 brochure)

25/03/2024

Members of U3AC's "Cambridge sport: in Fenner's hands" outside the University of Cambridge Fenner's cricket Ground. The tutor of this walking tour is Nigel Fenner, a relative of Frank Fenner - a local tobacconist, and talented sportsman who was instrumental in bringing "Town" and "Gown" together during the 19th century to play in the same sporting teams. This course will run again during our Summer term.