From British Fairgrounds to Cambridge Degree

The World

Children who grow up in Britain’s community of traveling fairground or carnival workers don’t normally have access to the best schools, let alone go on to graduate with a prestigious history degree from Cambridge University.

But that is what Zoah Hedges-Stocks has done. The 23-year-old tells anchor Marco Werman what it’s like to be the first member of her itinerant community to earn such a degree from Cambridge.

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