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Hear about the protests which radical AIDS activists staged against the petrol giant Texaco during the late-1980s.

As inhabitants and visitors of the city will know, in the heart of Cambridge there is a group of urban residents who are strangely out of place in a 21st century British city. Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of meeting these urban residents in the city centre for the first time, a group who are the pride of Cambridge. What makes them so strange? Well, they are a herd of free-roaming cows. In Summer 2021, Cambridge City Council have launched a ‘spectacular public art event’ Cows About Cambridge in the city that has seen tens of sculptures placed across the city in a ‘trail,’ encouraging people to rediscover the city after the isolation of the pandemic. In this PlaceCloud Essay, I am taking you to Cambridge’s urban commons to meet some of these cows, both actual and artistic, exploring how the city is grappling with urban residents as both objects of pride and subjects of violence.

In this viewpoint, hear about some of the stories and cures of the first patients of Saint Bartholomew's Priory and Hospital in the twelfth century.

In this viewpoint, hear about a medieval sheriff, who attempted to forcibly remove a criminal from the sanctuary of Saint Edmund's church, and the terrible punishment inflicted on him for all eternity.

In this viewpoint, hear about the miraculous punishment of Robert de Curcun, who tried to steal a manor from the monks of Bury, and explore why the Bishop of Norwich may have wanted the record altered 20 years after its original recording.