Cumbria Past
Sampool Bridge Looking East July 2012
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Iron Age and Roman Cumbria and Cumbrians: New Research
21st February 2026A one-day conference at Tullie House Museum Carlisle.
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Society Resources
This is a section on the website where various items such as documents relating to articles in Transactions are placed that may be of interest to members.
Members of the society have access to all editions of the newsletter. Non members will be able to view issues that are more than one year old.
We publish a Newsletter three times a year.
The current (Autumn 2025) contents include:
- A few words from the Guest Editors
- Lakeland Book of the Year
- A Further Appeal from the Publications Officer
- A visit to Rose Castle
- Anne Geddes Gilchrist
- Mayburgh Henge visit
- Winter Lecture Programme
- Kendal Local Heritage Partnership
- A Bronze Age Gold Lock Ring Acquired
- Remains of a Glassworks and Pottery recorded at Preston Street, Whitehaven
- Victoria County History Red Book launch
- Thomas Machell’s Collections Towards a History and Topography of Westmorland
- Towers, Halls and Bastles
and more ....
31st January 2026
[Oxford Cotswold Archaeology] Archaeological skills day.
3rd February 2026
Recent Archaeological Work in the Lake District.
16th February 2026
[Upper Eden History Society] Historical Pageants in the north west.
21st February 2026
Iron Age and Roman Cumbria and Cumbrians: New Research.
23rd February 2026
Northumbria and Cumbria in the eleventh century: insights from the career of Earl Siward.
3rd March 2026
The First Cumbrians: Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age burials from Heaning Wood Bone Cave, Great Urswick.
16th March 2026
[Upper Eden History Society] Life and Warfare in the Viking Age.
More
For later events check the main listing.