Customer & Client Reviews

R. Sriram  'I’ve only spent a year here now, and I’m delighted that there’s so much more to explore. Michelle Bullivant’s blog has been a great source of information' (thetapstories.com)

Mrs Barnes 'For me, this is 'History for Fun' + fun & knowledge (for me) its been! A comprehensive introduction to researching local/family history. Should be able to find anything I want!!!' - Local History course at Burwell College

Mrs Northcote 'It was excellent and most enjoyable, this course has been first rate' - Local History course at Burwell College

Ms Rogers 'Michelle Bullivant’s course of Local History has given me the impetus to have a go at
writing the history of District Nursing in Burwell in the twentieth century.'- Local History course at Burwell College

Mrs Turkentine - SecretaryHistorical Society Cherry Hinton 'She is an interesting and knowledgable speaker' - Historical Society Cherry Hinton

Ms Macklin - Diocese of Ely 'Dear Michelle, Just a note to say that I have now read 'An earthwork survey of the possible site of Mallets Manor'. I have to say that I thought it was a splendid achivement excellently presented and I loved your lively immediate style. I think you should be very proud of having achieved so much!'

Dr Twigs Way - Garden Historian ''Please can you send me a copy of the Cherry Hinton report...I found it so good - it would be an excellent example for future teaching on public parks' - Parks & Gardens of Cherry Hinton Hall

Tony Kirby - Anglia Polytechnic University 'We would like to offer you - Honorary Membership of the Centre for Regional Studies' - Trubshaw Prize in Local History - Parks & Gardens of Cherry Hinton Hall

Mrs Whitmore - Histon & Impington Village Society 'I thoroughly enjoyed last summer's walk in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall and particularly found the work you had done on the lost mills very interesting'

The Bulletin - Cambridgeshire Association for Local History 'Chairman of Cherry Hinton history society, Michelle Bullivant has worked wonders reviving the fortunes of this important society'

Mrs Emmerson - Cherry Hinton 'Michelle, thanks for all your hard work for the history society'

Mrs Lambert - Cambridge 'Thankyou for organising the Bartlow & Ashdon trip - the weather did not deter us. We enjoyed it, didn't realise what little gems are on our doorstep, many thanks!'

Barnwell & Fen Ditton Local History Society - 'members were treated to a very well researched and interesting talk'

Ron English - History Society 'Another year has quickly gone by but I should not want it to pass without saying a big thank you for all your hard work and enthusiastic work'

Mrs Major - Cherry Hinton  'Thank you for all your hard work for the History Society'

Cambridgeshire Association for Local History 'Many thanks for an excellent afternoon visit to Cherry Hinton Hall, as usual your enthusiasm shone through & when you said that you would get something done about the grounds - a lady next to me said, from what I have seen today of this lady she surely will. It was a great start to our summer visits, with a record amount of people attending - very well done.'

Mrs Slade - Hardwick History Society 'Dear Michelle Thank you for a very interesting talk last night.  It was very well received by the members.'

Mrs Rushworth - Staine Hundred Society 'Dear Michelle, The Staine Hundred so enjoyed your talk on Cherry Hinton!'

Mr Craig - Waterbeach Village Society 'Dear Michelle Your recent talk to the Society on the lost watermills of cherry hinton was so well received I was wondering if you would like to come again'

Mr Westwood-Bate - CALH 'I thought your talk on Saturday was fantastic & will be looking to book you on a Saturday & at Linton History'

Mike Petty - Fenland Historian 'just an extra thanks for your presentation'

Ms Bulleid - Fenland Friday  'Dear Michelle Thank you again for a very good talk at Ely yesterday'

Mrs Taylor - Cambs Family History 'Thank you so very much for all your hard work on my behalf. I didn't expect you to spend so much time on trying to find some useful information.I will certainly follow up your references and e-mail your contacts re-the Baptist conundrum as that is the one I would really like to solve. Many thanks again.'

Kathleen - Cherry Hinton 'Thank you for meeting me last week ,i was amazed about your knowledge of Cherry Hinton ,and its not often i meet anyone who takes an interest in history like you do'

Ms Fitzgibbons - Letchworth Family History Society 'Many, many thanks for the excellent talk last night.  Our members were most impressed and you really didn’t need the raffle prizes to keep up the interest, but good fun anyway!'

S. Miller - Cambridge & County Folk Museum 'Dear Michelle, Your Watermills of Cherry Hinton talk was successful last night. On behalf of the museum, thank you very much for agreeing to do this for us.'

Jon Phillips - Cherry Hinton Community Archives 'I found it really interesting today and was impressed by your knowledge of the subject'

Dr Nick James - Cambridge University 'Michelle, I really cannot express anything like adequately how grateful I am to you for the session you gave us and how deeply impressed I am to have listened on the ground to what you have to say. The scheme that you devised for us around the grounds fulfilled your purposes so clearly; it was an emergent story, ending on a very high note indeed. It fitted the bill for my students superbly'' - Cherry Hinton Hall

Carol Shepherd - The Vine Inter-Church Primary School -'Michelle, I just wanted to say many thanks for the fantastic day you gave the children at The Vine.They very much enjoyed their time with you and got a great deal out of the experience everybody really enjoyed themselves and it tied in so well with the work we had done earlier at Denny Abbey.Thank you once again'

Miss Bennett - Heritage Project with Parkside School - 'Hi Michelle, Huge thanks for coming to Parkside yesterday, they obviously got a great deal from it and you got the history across in a very interesting way.'

Mrs Dockerill - Sawston Village History Society - 'Dear Michelle, Thank you very much for such an interesting talk last week. What a lot of work you put into finding the watermills and with such an excellent result. We had several visitors on the night and we hope some of them will become members.'

T Kirby - Cambridge Antiquarian Society - 'Dear Michelle,  Just to thank you for a most informative and entertaining walk on Saturday morning: the mixture of history and landscape archaeology was just right! ...Look forward to Church End next year!'

Nigel - Michelle, just a quick note to say how much my wife and I enjoyed the walk and talk around Cherry Hinton Hall yesterday.

Cambridgeshire History Fair 2009 and 2011

Well done you - history was fave part of my day - was fabulous - in Cambridge Eve News this eve

Dear Michelle,

I do congratulate you on organising this event.   Gillian and I thoroughly enjoyed it.   This was demonstrated by the length of time that we spent there.

I only hope that you had as many visitors as you deserved.  It is an enormous lot of work.   Success on these occasions can be best judged by whether the exhibitors want to come to the next one.   This implies that I hope that there will be another!

Dear Michelle

Thank you for all your hard work in organising the History Fair so efficiently (even down to the weather). It was a great day especially for networking!

Janet

Dear Michelle,

I am writing on behalf of Sun Jester to say thank you very much for your most efficient management of the first History Fair. The organisation was excellent, your level of communication brilliant and, despite your reservations the car parking and entry and exit from the site worked like clockwork.

We have some experience of similar events and do understand all the hard work and stress that goes on behind the scenes. So thank you. And thank you too to the gentleman from the local history society who made a point of coming over to see us to say thank you for supporting the event.

Dear Michelle

Thank you for a lovely day.  It really went very well and was very well organised.

I hope that the lady that fainted and was taken to hospital is OK

Regards

Barbara

Very well done - it was a great event!
It obviously took a great deal of hard work but it was appreciated by
everybody I spoke to.
Mike

You did an amazing job putting it all together and the variety of participants covered a good range of interests…

Thank you for inviting us to the event this year.

With best wishes

Michael French

Dear Michelle,
On behalf of the Cambridgeshire Geology Club and The Friends of the Sedgwick Museum I would like to thank you and the organisers of the 1st Cambridgeshire Historical Fair for making the day such a huge success. From the time of arrival at the Cherry Hinton Park to the time of departure during the early evening everything went so smoothly and everyone was so helpful and friendly. We had so many interested visitors to our stall that the day went by so quickly. I have attached a picture of the geology stall together with Alex Coleman one of the volunteers that helped on the day.
Well done and thanks to everyone involved. I would be interested to know the official attendance for the day!
Best wishes
Ken

Hi All

.. I just wanted to say what a fantastic event you organised this year and what a success it was. I know you have all worked really hard and I have to say it couldn't have been done any better….. Once again well done ladies and thank you on behalf of Chinton folk for a fabulous day.

 Regards

Jonathan

'It was a really great festival-the girl did good!' Andrew Westwood-Bate Cambridgeshire Association for Local History

St Neots Museum 'Dear Michelle, Thankyou for a wonderful day on 19th Sept. We enjoyed the event immensely and thought it extremely well organised!'

Tom Doig - Cambridgeshire Association for Local History - 'Brilliant event at Cherry Hinton - fantastic organisation'

Denny Abbey Farmland Museum - Many thanks for organising [The 2011 Cambridgeshire History Fair] Michelle. It was a very good opportunity for networking and meeting potential visitors, and very smoothly organised

Cambridge Museum of Technology and Cambridge and County Folk Museum - Dear Michelle, Thank you so much for organising it! [The 2011 Cambridgeshire History Fair] It was great. We really enjoyed the day. So lucky with the weather...Thanks so much again and best wishes

St Neots Musuem - Dear Michelle,   It was good to be involved on Saturday [The 2011 Cambridgeshire History Fair]. Thank you for inviting us again. I think that we always benefit from 'showing the flag' at events such as yours as people seem really interested in coming to our Museum for a follow up visit. I shall keep in touch.

Peter Filby - Dear Michelle,Thanks for organising such an interesting local history fair [The 2011 Cambridgeshire History Fair]. It was a lovely mix of groups and people and artefacts of various kinds. These provoked much interaction between the helpers and visitors.

Re-enacting Ancient Times Society - Hello Michelle, Thank you for allowing us to come along and be part of your event [The 2011 Cambridgeshire History Fair]. ..We all had a really great time, especially those who got to do the fighting and displays in the small arena...It really was an unexpected pleasure to be asked to do a display in the main arena. All of our 'combat trained' re-enactors were delighted to be able to make a small presentation for the public...Thank you again for a great opportunity and a big thank you to all of your helpers who were on site especially the ladies providing cakes and making sandwiches for those taking part.

Eliza Gore - Cambridge Archaeology Office - 'It was good to be there and we both felt it was a very worthwhile and enjoyable day.  I'm glad so many people were able to attend the day.' - Cherry Hinton Festival & History Fair