Cumbria Past
Lanercost Priory
Lectures
Online lecture : From Kenya to Kendal and back again.
4th November 2026A talk discussing connections between Kendal Museums natural history collection and ongoing calls for reparative justice by members of the Indigenous Nandi and Talai communities of western Kenya.
Lectures
A Gothic Novelist on Tour in the Lake District
2nd December 2026An account of Ann Radcliffes momentous 1794 encounter with the landscapes of the Lakes
Lectures
The influence of the geology of the north of England on prehistoric societies
5th January 2027If stones were prehistoric societies major asset and most persistent record why do we know so little about them? A talk by Dr Ian Jackson
Other Organisations
West Cumbria Archaeological Society Winter Talks for 2026/2027
28th September 2026 - 28th March 2027West Cumbria Archaeological Society Winter Talks for 2026/2027
Society
Kendal Conference: Connecting with Cumbria’s colonial past: enduring legacies and shared futures
24th October 2026Join Dr Joe Rigby for a fascinating one-day conference, bringing together researchers working on Cumbrias colonial history.
Society
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 (Summer 2026) contents include:
- 50 years preserving Cumbria’s heritage at Eskdale Mill: Interview with Mill Manager Kate Hughes
- Networks of patronage and production: the 18th century enamelled glass of the Beilby family and their associations in Cumberland and Westmorland
- The Pilgrimage of Hadrian’s Wall 2029
- Iron Age and Roman Cumbria and Cumbrians, CWAAS conference, February 2026
- Potential for Roman Mining in Cumbria
- Online Lectures for Members 2026-27: advance notice
- Launch event for the publication of Thomas Machell’s Westmorland, at the Armitt Museum, Ambleside
- Preview – Rough Class: Schooling & rioting – the growth of a Cumbrian Town 1865-1905
- Review – Industrial Railways & Locomotives of Furness, Westmorland and the Isle of Man
- The 1926 general strike in Cumberland and Westmorland
and more ....
28th September 2026
West Cumbria Archaeological Society Winter Talks for 2026/2027.
7th October 2026
Online Lecture The Archaeology of drystone walls.
24th October 2026
Connecting with Cumbria’s colonial past: enduring legacies and shared futures: 24 October 2026, 9.30am-5.15pm.
26th October 2026
History of Barrow.
4th November 2026
From Kenya to Kendal and back again: EG Harrison and the World Wildlife Gallery, Kendal Museum.
23rd November 2026
Looking Back in Time - the Hodbarrow mines 1840-1986.
2nd December 2026
A Gothic Novelist on Tour in the Lake District: Ann Radcliffes momentous 1794 encounter with the landscapes of the Lakes .
More
For later events check the main listing.