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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 ....
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.
21st March 2026
Dales Archaeology Day 2026 .
23rd March 2026
The Lowther Medieval Castle and Village project: latest updates.
18th April 2026
CWAAS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
20th April 2026
[Upper Eden History Society] AGM then 17th/18th century satire and the Lowther Family.
More
For later events check the main listing.