The watery surrounds that gave Ely its original name of the ‘Isle of Eels’, is a translation of the Anglo Saxon word ‘Eilig’ ...

The Isle of Ely and the surrounding fenland has a unique and proud history with its claim to have been the last stand of the population against the invading Normans.

In conjunction with the Cambridgeshire Family History Society, the university is cataloguing some 270 rolls and files from the Isle of Ely’s Assizes court — a local judicial system that was ...

Dr Paul Cavill, lecturer in Early Modern British History at Cambridge's Faculty of History, said: "The Isle of Ely Assize records are a major untapped resource for lives and deaths of ordinary ...

Archivists in Cambridge have combed through more than 270 handwritten scrolls from the Isle of Ely Assizes. The records, dating from 1557 to 1775, contain crimes ranging from murder to the theft ...