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Close-up black and white portrait of a woman with center-parted dark hair looking directly at the camera.

Clara Rackham

18 Hobson Street

History of 18 Hobson Street

A street view of two brick buildings with sash windows and dormer roofs, partially obscured by a tall brick wall with an arch.

18 Hobson Street undated (MoC)

1913 Kelly’s

Harris Rackham, senior fellow Christ’s College

Mrs Clara D Rackham, Guardian of Poor for Castle Ward

The Rackhams had previously lived at 4 Grange Terrace from 1901 until 1911.

Book cover with a white central panel containing title text and a green background with the Routledge logo in the bottom corner.

Maroula Joannou, The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham, Rackham: Socialist, Suffragist, Social Reformer (Routledge, 2023)

Clara Rackham’s biographer, historian, Mary (Maroula) Joannou has written the introduction to Clara Rackham for Capturing Cambridge. Mary has also provided the account of Clara and Harris Rackham’s family life, the biographical note on Harris Rackham, and compiled the chronology.

Introduction for Capturing Cambridge

At Home with Clara and Harris Rackham

A Brief Note on Harris Rackham

Clara Chronology

A black and white portrait of a man in a three-piece suit sitting against a curtain backdrop with a watch chain visible.

Harris Rackham, Senior Tutor, Christ’s College, courtesy of the Masters and Fellows, Christ’s College, Cambridge.

Eleven women in early twentieth-century clothing sit or stand in two rows in a garden with a handwritten note at the top.

Committee of the Women’s Co-operative Guild, Hobson Street with Clara Rackham centre of front row. Courtesy of Helen Bloxsome and Lucy Tabor

Black and white head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman with curly hair, wearing a high-collared blouse and a dark necktie.

Clara Rackham with necktie, courtesy of Helen Bloxsome and Lucy Tabor

A page from a document featuring blue handwritten cursive text on lined paper listing committee members and their roles.

Example of Clara Rackham’s handwriting, 1922, courtesy of the Principal and Fellows of Newnham College, Cambridge

Book cover with a white central panel containing title text and a green background with the Routledge logo in the bottom corner.

Maroula Joannou, The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham pub Routledge


In 1924 the Rackhams moved to 9 Park Terrace

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