A professor, churchman, botanist and geologist, and an innovator in universal education. He became a guiding light for his student Charles Darwin, and founded the Cambridge University Botanic Garden in 1831.

Established in 1869 as Britain’s first residential institution for the higher education of women. Principal founders Emily Davies and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. The college was relocated to its current site from Hitchin in 1873.

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was a leading suffragist and co-founder of Newnham College, and a lifelong campaigner for women's education and equal citizenship.

Despite being blinded aged 25 in a shooting accident, he became a Liberal MP who campaigned for women's suffrage. He was later appointed Postmaster-General and introduced parcel post, postal orders, telegrams, and Post Office Savings. He lived in Brookside with his wife and daughter from 1874 to 1884. Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Location: 19 Brookside, Cambridge, CB2 1JE

He was 'a friend of artists', returning to England from Morocco to create Kettle's Yard, where he lived and displayed his art collection from 1957 to 1973.

She was a Quaker minister and campaigned for freedom and toleration in matters of religion and conscience. She gave a site to the Quakers for a Meeting House while still living there. Location: 12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA

A naturalist, geologist and biologist who is best-known for his theory of evolution.

At The Eagle Pub, near the old Cavendish Laboratory, Francis Crick and James Watson first celebrated the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. This breakthrough relied on data from Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins and other scientists.

At the Black Bear Inn, which stood on this site in Market Square, Cromwell met the Eastern Association to plan the Parliamentarian war effort in this region. MP for Cambridge. Lord Protector of the British republic. Location: Market Passage, Cambridge, CB2 3PF

The Society was a catalyst for the development of modern science in Cambridge. In 1833 the building at 2 All Saint's Passage was opened to house their meeting room, library and collections.