Cumbria Past
News
Three issues per year - one of the benefits of CWAAS membership.
News is included as part of the Society mailing and is delivered to all Society members in early March, early July and early November each year.
The mailing includes flyers for forthcoming Society events, information on other Society matters, as well as flyers for books of local interest. One mailing will include the annual volume of Transactions.
The deadlines by which copy should reach the Editor are:
- Spring Issue: 1st February
- Summer Issue: 1st June
- Autumn Issue: 1st October
Articles should not exceed 500 words except by arrangement with the Editor. The editor can be contacted via the contact form on this website.
Lists of select topics, covering issues 1 to 71, compiled by James Cherry and Margaret Edwards are available, please scroll down to the bottom of this page to download these.
You can download copies of all issues of the Newsletter/News that are more than one year old.
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News Issue 109 Summer 2025
Contents
- President’s letter
- Society News
- A few words from the Editor
- CWAAS AGM
- Sykes project update
- Our Resources with latest update, 10 June 2025
- Three cheers for Sarah Rose
- Out and about
- Visit to Calder Abbey, 3 May 2025
- May Walk: Flookburgh and southern Cartmel peninsula
- A treasure trove of local history and knowledge
- In the News
- 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
- Around the Archives
- ‘Dreadful News from Cumberland’
- Book News
- Doctor Dixon’s Casebook
- Singular Honour: The 34th Regiment of Foot’s Unique Battle Honour ‘Arroyo dos Molinos’ – A Series of Essays. Resúmenes en Castellano
- Society Notices
- In memoriam: Professor Patricia L. Garside
- Membership Update
- Membership report
Each issue of News, which normally is about 20 pages, carries many articles of interest as well as containing details of forthcoming events for the Society and affiliated groups. Important local events for other similar organisations will also be featured.
There are sections for membership matters, which details new members, as well as reports from committees.
The bookshelf section will feature reviews of recent publications likely to be of interest to members. Useful contacts within the society are also provided.
A list of selected topics from earlier newsletters issues 1 - 27 has been made available. This is a compilation of three lists, two of them prepared by Margaret Edwards and the third by James Cherry in conjunction with Margaret Edwards. Please click the link below to download it.