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The
first Cambridgeshire History Festival descended
on the county on Saturday 19th September 2009, as part of the
Cherry Hinton Festival.
Over
the past three years the history exhibition had grown in size and
drew a huge amount of interest. At the 2009 Cherry Hinton
Festival we were pleased to announce and present the first
ever Cambridgeshire History Fair! It was a fantastic opportunity to promote yourself/your group, network
with other like-minded people & organizations and have a great
day out!
Stalls
for the history fair included a diverse range of related
disciplines. The history fair covered history, archaeology, local
history, archives, family history, architecture, natural
environment, museums, re-enactment and much, much more…..
   
   
  
The Historical
Association is open to anyone with an interest in history. The
Cambridge branch runs speaker meetings, walks, visits and film
evenings, and you have the chance to participate in the national
events too.
This year the
University of Cambridge reaches a special milestone – 800 years
of people, ideas and achievements that continue to transform and
benefit
Hardwick Local
History Group
Hardwick Local
History Group’s aim is to publish information about the history
of agriculture and education in Hardwick, Cambridgeshire. If you
have family connections or photographs and are willing to share
them with us, please contact Barbara email b.slade@virgin.net
‘Discover the
history of Cambridge’ – via radio show, website, events and
group meetings – Open to anyone who is interested in the history
of Cambridge. fonz.chamberlain@cambridgetimetraveller.com
The
Society exists to encourage the study of family history within the
old counties of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. It not only
provides a friendly point of contact for people world-wide who are
interested in the same surnames and families, but also offers a
wide range of facilities to support their researches into
genealogy and the local area.
The
March Branch of the Cambridgeshire Family History Society hold
their meetings at March Library, City Road, March, PE15
9LT. The meetings start at 7 p.m. and finish around 8.45 p.m..
Refreshments are available.
West Wickham & District Local
History Club
A small club whose aims are to foster
interest and appreciation of the local area
Our purpose is to encourage and assist the
study of Local History as an academic discipline and as a
rewarding leisure pursuit for both individuals and groups.
Scrapbooking your life, your stories, your
way – in beautiful photo albums. Workshops begin from September.
Call Audrie on 01223 575197 to book your space.
Cambridge Family History Centre
In a relaxed and informal way in the comfort
of your home, Beautiful Memories will record on film your life
story or living legacy
or create a film to capture those special
events in your life. Let Beautiful Memories put its film
experience to work for you.
Linton CCAN
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=28
The Group was
established in November 2007 to create to create a digital archive
as an ongoing record of the cultural heritage of the Linton &
District cluster of villages. This archive will consist largely of
photographs and documents with attached text and oral
reminiscences.
Linton
and District Historical Society
www.lintonhistory.org.uk/
The Society was founded
by local historian Garth Collard in 1984
and presently has over 100 members. Its principal aim is to
research and record the history of the Cambridgeshire village of
Linton and its surrounding area. It seeks to make this history
accessible through public lectures, exhibitions and publications.
Cambridgeshire
Association for Local History
www.calh.org.uk
Our aim is to provide
an umbrella service for all the local and social history societies
in Cambridgeshire. We also arrange monthly lectures and
conferences from October to May and organise guided tours within
the county and beyond during the summer months.
Cherry
Hinton Local History Society
www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=59976279903&ref=ts
Cherry Hinton Local History Society was
founded in 1982 to study and share local collections. Since then
the society has grown in enthusiasm and size, welcoming and
sharing information from other surrounding areas.
We are a friendly and approachable group interested in all aspects
of local history and its affiliated disciplines countrywide.
Aiming specifically to promote and encourage the study of local
history of Cherry Hinton and preserve its heritage. We also have a
keen interest in surrounding areas.
Cherry
Hinton Community Archives Group
www.ccan.co.uk/group.aspx?GI=14
Please get in touch
if you have any old documents or records relating to Cherry Hinton
that you would like to see on this site. Likewise, if you have any
tales to tell of Cherry Hinton or you see anything that you would
like to comment on, please get in touch.
Friends
of St Andrews Cherry Hinton
www.friends-of-standrew.org.uk/
The objective of the Friends is to maintain,
repair, restore, preserve, improve, beautify and reconstruct St
Andrew's Church, centre and churchyard for the benefit of the
present and future community of Cherry Hinton.
Helpful
Genealogy www.helpfulgenealogy.co.uk
Practical help with your family history
Free consultation service. I am a Professional Genealogist,
Cambridge graduate, and Member of the Society of Genealogists. I
offer a competitively priced personal and practical UK genealogy
research service to help you uncover your family history.
01223 921519
A lively local museum tells the story of this
busy market town on the River Ouse, from prehistoric times to the
present day. The Museum ocupies St. Neots Victorian Police Station
and Magistrates Court building, in the town centre. Here you will
fine a wealth of objects and information packed into a small
space...
Find out about archaeology in the Cherry Hinton area and
Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire's historic environment bears
evidence of 500,000 years of human activity - ancient sites,
monuments and landscapes, historic towns, villages and buildings,
ancient features and finds.
Archaeology is the discovery, study and understanding of this
evidence.
Cambridgeshire Archaeology works in
partnership with others to protect and enhance Cambridgeshire's
historic environment, to promote
- sustainable growth,
- access,
- active citizenship,
- lifelong learning, and
- a sense of place for all
Cambridgeshire communities.
Cambridgeshire Archaeology provides
- advice and information on
the archaeology and historic environment of Cambridgeshire,
- outreach and learning
opportunities for schools and communities in Cambridgeshire.
Sarah Poppy
Cambridgeshire Archaeology
Box ELH 1108
Castle Court
Shire Hall
Cambridge
CB3 0AP
Tel: (01223) 712335
Sarah.poppy@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Friends of Histon Road Cemetery
The friends group aims to promote the
appreciation and care of this historic, Victorian, non-conformist
cemetery
michaelfrench@tiscali.co.uk
The CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY was founded
in 1840 to provide access for local people to the local history,
architecture and archaeology of Cambridgeshire (which now includes
the old County of Huntingdon and the new Unitary Authority of
Peterborough). Among other benefits, members are eligible to
attend the annual programme of monthly lectures, are entitled to a
reduced fee for the Society's two annual conferences, and receive
a copy of the Society's annual publications.
2nd
Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles Living History Group www.2ndbattalionroyalulste
rrifles.com
We are a living history group portraying 2nd Battalion RUR around
D Day we also have an attached Home Front Section.
ed.frost@yahoo.co.uk
Cottenham
Village Society
www.cottenhamvillagesociet
y.ukfamilies.com
The group promotes the history of Cottenham village and through
lectures, visits and archiving encourages the public to b aware of
local history in the village and area of Cambridgeshire.
gp105@cam.ac.uk
Cambridgeshire
Archives www.cambs.archives@cambrid
geshire.gov.uk
Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies is dedicated to
preserving and actively promoting the use of original historical
records of Cambridgeshire, including the former counties of
Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely.
Original archive documents can be consulted at the archive
repositories in Huntingdon and Cambridge, while printed material
and audio-visual resources are available in Cambridgeshire's Local
Studies Libraries. Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies
Box RES 1009
Shire Hall
Castle Hill
Cambridge
CB3 0AP
Tel: 01223 699399
cambs.archives@cambridgesh
ire.co.uk
www.cambs.archives@cambrid
geshire.gov.uk
James
Dilley Britannia/Ancient Craft www.ancientcraft.co.uk
Flintknapper, ancient craftsman and re-enactor
james.dilley@btinternet.co
m
Cambridge
Archaeology Field Group www.cambridge-archaeology.
org.uk
Local archaeology group with continuous programme of activities:
fieldwork in villages around Cambridge; lectures; workshops;
processing finds; visits etc.
cafg.may@ntlworld.com
www.cambridge-archaeology.
org.uk
Prebendal
Manor & Michael Brown - Early Gardener www.prebendal-manor.demon.co.uk
The Grade I listed Prebendal Manor House is the
earliest surviving dwelling in Northamptonshire. Alan Titchmarsh
described the gardens as a "stunning example of a recreated
medieval garden". ( Royal Gardeners Pub., BBC, 2003). The
gardens were established to represent both the practical and
decorative features that could be found in a high status garden
between the 13th and 15 th centuries. Our award winning museum was
set up to display the results of the archaeological excavations at
the Prebendal Manor. For further information or to make a group
booking please contact us:
Telephone: 01780 782575
Email: info@prebendal-manor.co.uk
The Prebendal Manor House
Nassington
Nr Peterborough PE8 6QG
www.prebendal-manor.demon.co.uk
Cambridgeshire Geology Club
Have you ever looked at the landscape and wondered why
it looks as it does? Do you wonder why there are natural disasters
like earthquakes and volcanoes?
These and other questions can be answered by Cambridgeshire
Geology Club
tel: Ken Rolfe 07777 678685
cambs.geology.club@hotmail.co.uk
Friends
of Sedgwick Museum www.sedgwickmuseum.org
The friends of Sedgwick Museum exists to support
and encourage the development of the Sedgwick Museum and promote
the geological collections to a wider audience.
Membership is open to anyone.
For further details and an application form please ring the
Department of Earch Sciences,
tel: 01223 333400
Or visit the museum website:
www.sedgwickmuseum.org
Wildlife
Trust www.wildlifebcnp.org
The Wildlife Trust is a wildlife conservation charity that
works for a better future for all kinds of wildlife across
Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough.
Our mission is to protect and improve habitats and wildlife in our
local area as well as helping people to enjoy and understand their
local wildlife.
Cambridge
Preservation Society www.cpswandlebury.org.uk
The Society is a splendid watchdog. Since 1932 it has been
represented by members on the planning committees of successive
local councils. It is also represented on a number of important
local bodies: for example, the City's Sustainable City
Biodiversity Group, Local Strategic Partnership and the Design and
Conservation Panel, and the Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership. It
keeps a constant vigil. Its intervention is regularly sought in
local issues and it comments on all the major planning and
development proposals. With the largest membership of any local
amenity group in the area, its submissions carry weight.
Cambridge
and County Folk Museum www.folkmuseum.org.uk
Explore the life and times of Cambridge people in this friendly
social history museum, which is housed in the former White Horse
Inn. Experience home and work life in warm room settings, revisit
the toys from your childhood as well as many temporary exhibitions
and events throughout the year. We are located in the most ancient
part Museum Frontage
of Cambridge, just a few minutes walk
from the centre of the City.
Cambridgeshire
Records Society www.cambsrecordsociety.co.
uk
We publish, free to members, high quality editions of
documentary sources and reproductions of maps of Cambridge.The
Cambridgeshire Records Society was started in 1972 by the
Cambridge Antiquarian Society (founded 1840). Its purpose is to
publish editions of original documents from the Middle Ages to the
present relating to Cambridgeshire and the surrounding area in
order to make them accessible to Cambridgeshire people interested
in their local and family history and to historians worldwide. The
Society also republishes unavailable printed works and historical
maps.The Society holds an annual meeting with a talk on a topic
relating to the current publication or to local records.Membership
is open to all individuals and institutions for an annual
subscription of £14.00. The membership year runs from 1st January
to 31st December.
secretary@cambsrecordsocie
ty.co.uk
Landscape
and Local History Group annys@goothman27.fsnet.co.u
k
The Landscape and Local History Group is a meeting place for
active researchers, those who have been active or would like to
be. Many members work on places and topics on the local area,
others are researching further afield. Speakers are group members
or other landscape or local historians based locally. Meetings 3
or 4 times a year, at Anglia Ruskin University, East Road,
Cambridge.
Friends
of Cherry Hinton Hall www.cherryhintonhall.com
The Friends of Cherry Hinton hall are a newly formed group, in
2009, of people concerned about the usage, environment, welfare
and future of the park for the benefit of those who use it most.
The friends want to act as advocates / champions of Cherry Hinton
Hall grounds for the general public and act as a communication
channel between the Council and public.
chhfriends@gmail.com
You can join our Google group Friends of Cherry Hinton Hall.
Sun
Jester sun-jester.website.orange.
co.uk
Hands on, educational, fun history
Cambridge
Super 8
www.cambridge-super8.org
The Cambridge Super 8 Group is dedicated to the exhibition and
creation of Super 8 film as a crucial art form in its own right.
As well as the annual festival, the Cambridge Super 8 Group has
been active in programming a multitude of screenings, director
talks and educational events in the city of Cambridge and in East
Anglia.
Cambridge Super 8 is also committed to promoting new work and
developing critical discussion as well as developing collaboration
with other festivals. Also looking for amateur Super 8 Films shot
in Cambridge in the 60s, 70s and 80s for a very special programme.
The
Company of St Jude War www.companyofstjude.co.uk
(of the Roses Re-enactment and Weaponry Display)
The Company of St Jude was formed in 2003 by two gentlemen
belonging to a viking society wishing to move into the medieval
period and become two lone ranger mercs. Initially a group hadn't
been planned, but with no others in the area The Company was
formed and continues to grow. Nowadays the group provides
historical displays in Cambridgeshire on the War of the Roses
period as well as fielding in larger battles as a small
skirmishing unit in black and white tabards.
Further information can be found as detailed
below:
1st Cambridgeshire History Fair
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=121765715920
Cherry Hinton Festival & Cambridgeshire's 1st History Fair
2009
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=90921964082
Cambridgeshire Association for Local History
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=106861285736&ref=ts
Cherry Hinton Local History Society
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=59976279903&ref=ts
Cambridgeshire Young Persons History Awards
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=76884928524
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