Editing Cambridge (section)

=== Literature and film ===
The city has been the setting for all or part of several novels, including [[Douglas Adams]]' ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'', [[Rose Macaulay]]'s ''[[They Were Defeated]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19321224.2.33.5 |title=They were defeated |newspaper=Evening Post |location=Wellington, NZ |page=7 |date=24 December 1932 |access-date=7 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921022121/http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19321224.2.33.5 |archive-date=21 September 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Kate Atkinson (writer)|Kate Atkinson]]'s ''[[Case Histories]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3622947/A-daily-sense-of-danger.html |title=A Daily Sense of Danger – ''Case Histories'' by Kate Atkinson |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |first=Katie |last=Owen |date=29 August 2004 |access-date=25 February 2011 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611044344/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3622947/A-daily-sense-of-danger.html |archive-date=11 June 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Rebecca Stott]]'s ''Ghostwalk''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2007_12_fri.shtml |title=Woman's Hour -Rebecca Stott on 'Ghostwalk' |publisher=BBC Radio 4 |year=2012 |access-date=25 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728020732/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2007_12_fri.shtml |archive-date=28 July 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]]' ''Enigma'',<ref>{{cite book |author=Chainey, Graham |title=A Literary History of Cambridge |location=Cambridge |orig-year=1985 |year=1995 |isbn=0-907115-25-X |publisher=Pevensey Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Garrett, Martin |title=Cambridge: a Cultural and Literary History|location=Oxford|year=2004|isbn=1-902669-79-7 |publisher=Signal Books }}</ref> while [[Susanna Gregory]] wrote a series of novels set in 14th century Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/130359/desc/gregory-susanna/ |title=GREGORY, SUSANNA &#124; List of Writers |work=The Writers of Wales Database |publisher=Literature Wales |access-date= 25 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831223859/http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/130359/desc/gregory-susanna/ |archive-date= 31 August 2013 |df= dmy-all }}</ref> [[Gwen Raverat]], the granddaughter of [[Charles Darwin]], talked about her late Victorian Cambridge childhood in her memoir ''[[Period Piece (book)|Period Piece]]'', and ''[[The Night Climbers of Cambridge]]'' is a book written by [[Noel Symington]] under the pseudonym "Whipplesnaith" about nocturnal climbing on the colleges and town buildings of Cambridge in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cucc.survex.com/archive/jnl/1983/roof.htm|title=Some References to Cambridge Night Climbing|access-date=26 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209213416/http://cucc.survex.com/archive/jnl/1983/roof.htm |website=Cambridge University Caving Club Archive |archive-date=9 February 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Fictionalised versions of Cambridge appear in [[Philippa Pearce]]'s ''[[Tom's Midnight Garden]]'' and ''[[Minnow on the Say]]'', the city renamed as Castleford, and as the home of [[Tom Sharpe]]'s fictional college in ''[[Porterhouse Blue]]''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/noequalinworlda00crow |url-access=registration |title=No equal in the world: an interpretation of the academic presidency |first=Joseph N. |last=Crowley |publisher=University of Nevada Press |location=Reno, NV |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-87417-237-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/noequalinworlda00crow/page/167 167] |access-date=25 February 2012 }}</ref>

[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] TV series [[Grantchester (TV series)|''Granchester'']] was partly filmed in Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grantchester – Drama Series Hits ITV 1 |url=https://www.visitcambridge.org/things-to-do/film-and-tv-locations-to-visit/grantchester-tv-series |website=Visit Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge City Council |access-date=31 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401075528/https://www.visitcambridge.org/things-to-do/film-and-tv-locations-to-visit/grantchester-tv-series |archive-date=1 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>