Cumbria Past
Whitehaven Museum
Society
Vacancy for website design coordinator
The Society is looking for a freelance website design coordinator to assist in the development of its new website, follow the link for further information.
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.
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.
More
For later events check the main listing.