Week in Cambridge

I had a productive week visiting with a group of 80 delegates from the UK, Spain, Poland, Ecuador, Columbia, Mexico and elsewhere. We assembled in Cambridge to share our ideas and learn how to begin our own ventures.

Cambridge has a history which, like Edinburgh, reaches back to a thousand years before the birth of Christ. Its middle-aged brick buildings predate those of Edinburgh. One of the churches that I passed by on my way to Judge Business School dated from the 14th century (St. Botolphs). Its construction appeared to be of scavenged stones, assembled with an unknown binder to form remarkably straight and square walls. I was able to stay at St. Catherine's College in much more modern accommodations. My room was a standard college dorm room, used for conferences in the summer months. Construction was being conducted outside my window which faced the South wall of St. Catherine's chapel. Coming home early on one occasion, I could hear choral music coming from the chapel and longed for a chance to sing Kyrie Eleison a capella!

Kings College Cambridge. By Thos Malton in 1798
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/kinggeorge/k/largeimage77847.html

St. Catherines College in 1798: Taken from: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/kinggeorge/c/largeimage77820.html Copyright Terms: http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/terms/copyright/index.html

Cambridge Sketch from 1824. Appears largely unchanged today. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/h/largeimage86182.html

Edinburgh City Landscape Drawing by Pieter van der Aa in 1729

Resources for Scottish Maps: http://www.chartingthenation.lib.ed.ac.uk/

Resources for English Maps: http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=BLVU1#