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Thursday
26
JUN
2025
From Tudor Essex to the South Pacific: 400 Years of Family History through Emmanuel and the Changing Church
6:00pm – Online, via Zoom
John Harding, historian, matriculated at Emmanuel in 1963. His nine-times great-grandfather, John Malden, matriculated at Emmanuel in 1623. In a special online talk for the Emmanuel Society that touches on family history, Pacific expeditions and religious change, John Harding reveals the extraordinary story of the intervening generations.
Drawing in part from his well-researched family tree, John will apply his skills as a historian to take you on an exploration of his family from its origins in Tudor Essex. He’ll show how successful marriages raised his ancestors’ social status from artisans to members of the Victorian clergy. He’ll tell the story of an island in the Pacific named after a family member. As his family moved from puritanism to the nineteenth-century Broad Church, so did Cambridge, so he will set his story within the religious changes in the University and, more specifically, in Emmanuel.
Join us for what promises to be a fascinating online talk, hosted by Rosanna Moseley Gore (1979), author of Songs from the Suitcase: Inhabiting an Inheritance and member of the Emmanuel Society Committee.
Register to attend (free). Registration closes on Wednesday 25 June.