Margaret Upson lives in Cambridgeshire and writes poetry to help children with disabilities. All of her royalties go to these children. She enjoys working with the children, as well. She has made it her life's work and has raised well over £1,500 for these worthy causes.

Cambridgeshire was recorded in the Domesday Book as "Grantbridgeshire" (or rather Grentebrigescire).

Cambridgeshire today is the product of several local government unifications. In 1888, when county councils where introduced, two were set up, following the traditional division of Cambridgeshire into the area in the south around Cambridge, and the liberty of the Isle of Ely. In 1965, these two administrative counties were merged to form Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. In 1974, this then merged with the county to the west, Huntingdon and Peterborough (which had been created in 1965, by the merger of Huntingdonshire with the Soke of Peterborough - a part of Northamptonshire which had its own county council). The resulting county was called simply 'Cambridgeshire'.