Cumbria Past
Clock Tower
Other Organisations
Lake District National Park Authority Annual Archaeology Conference
15th November 2025An all day conference to be held at the Ambleside Campus of the University of Cumbria
Society
Place Names Study Day
1st November 2025We are delighted to invite members to join us for a day exploring various aspects of place names and field names in the North of England, the Borders, and further afield. Our expert speakers are Dr Angus Winchester, Dr Caron Newman, Dr Abigail Lloyd, Dr Diana Whaley, and Dr Chris Donaldson. There will be time for questions and discussion after the sessions.
Society
Extra visit to excavations at Mayburgh Henge, Tuesday 30 September, 3pm
30th September 2025Free guided tour with Professor Richard Bradley
Society
Visit to excavations at Mayburgh Henge, Sunday 28 September 3pm
28th September 2025Free guided tour with Professor Richard Bradley
Other Organisations
Roman baths and bathing in northern Britain: recent discoveries
8th November 2025Customs House, South Shields
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 2025) contents include:
- CWAAS AGM
- Sykes project update
- Our Resources with latest update, 10 June 2025
- Three cheers for Sarah Rose
- Visit to Calder Abbey, 3 May 2025
- May Walk: Flookburgh and southern Cartmel peninsula
- A treasure trove of local history and knowledge
- Cumbria’s medieval leper houses
- David Frederick Bates (1929–2024)
- Hudleston descendant’s pilgrimage to Pedong, northern India
- On the ornamental/structural use of Cumberland alabaster
- Early medieval activity confirmed at St Paul’s Church, Orton
and more ....
28th September 2025
Mayburgh Henge.
30th September 2025
Visit to excavations at Mayburgh Henge, Tuesday 30 September, 3pm.
7th October 2025
Ten maps that made Cumbria.
20th October 2025
[Upper Eden History Society] Land of Lead and Silver.
1st November 2025
Place Names Study Day.
5th November 2025
The Magna Carta and the discovery of the Appleby MS at Harvard.
8th November 2025
Arbeia conference on Roman Baths.
More
For later events check the main listing.