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{{short description|Historical, antiquarian, archaeological and text publication society and registered charity}}
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| formation       = 1866
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| status          = Charity
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| purpose         = Historical study and research
| headquarters    = United Kingdom
| leader_title    = Activities
| leader_name     = Research and publications, lectures and events
| leader_title2   = Collections
| leader_name2    = Library, archives
| leader_title3   = Patrons
| leader_name3    = Rt Rev. James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle, Claire Hensman, Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria
| leader_title4   = President
| leader_name4    = Dr Rob David
| website         = [http://www.cumbriapast.com/cgi-bin/ms/main.pl?action=home www.cumbriapast.com]
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The '''Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society''', founded in 1866, is a local historical, [[Social:Antiquarian|antiquarian]], [[Earth:Archaeology|archaeological]] and [[Text publication society|text publication society]] and registered charity covering the modern county of Cumbria.

==Aims==
The society exists to "promote, encourage, foster" the combined studies of [[Social:Genealogy|genealogy]], history, [[Philosophy:Tradition|custom]] and [[Earth:Archaeology|archaeology]], within the boundaries of the non-metropolitan county of Cumbria (which, as well as the two titular historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, includes elements of historic Yorkshire and Lancashire).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cumbriapast.com/ms/pdf/Society_constitution_Apr_16.pdf |title= Revised Rules, 2008 and 2012 |publisher=Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society |accessdate=21 May 2016 }}</ref>

==History==
The society was established in Penrith, Cumbria on 11 September 1866, with "five business and professional men from both counties" as founder-members.<ref name=Gazette>{{cite news |first=Andrew |last=Thomas |url=http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/14259669.NOSTALGIA__Society_aimed_to_preserve_the_antiquities_of_two_counties/?ref=mac |title=Nostalgia: Society aimed to preserve the antiquities of two counties |newspaper=The Westmorland Gazette |date=7 February 2016 }}</ref> The then Earl of Lonsdale was appointed honorary president. One of the society's first official acts was to campaign for the protection of the Dunmail Raise [[Earth:Cairn|cairn]], and to organise an archaeological dig on the Low Borrow Bridge Roman fort, near Tebay. Membership rose to 115 by 1866 (with around a quarter being clergymen), and "includ[ed] three ladies".<ref name=Gazette/> The society returned to the Low Borrow Bridge site, by then a scheduled monument, in 2011 and discovered further evidence as to the size of the camp,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-14362255 |title=Archaeologists excavate Roman fort near Tebay |publisher=BBC News |date=9 August 2011 }}</ref> while in 2015 it was a joint funder of work into a dendrochronological dating on Kendal's fourteenth-century Castle dairy.<ref>{{cite news |first=Carl |last=Fallowfield |url=http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2015/04/29/fascinating-finds-shed-light-on-history-of-ancient-dairy/ |title=Fascinating finds shed light on history of ancient dairy |website=Cumbria Crack |date=29 April 2015 |access-date=20 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604102121/http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2015/04/29/fascinating-finds-shed-light-on-history-of-ancient-dairy/ |archive-date=4 June 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Publications==
A publishing arm was created in 1877,<ref name=Gazette/> and by 2015 was responsible for publishing its peer-reviewed journal ''The Transactions'' of the society, a triannual newsletter, and various dedicated book series for specific areas of interest (for example, the Extra Series, and those for Records, Research, and Tracts).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cumbriapast.com/cgi-bin/ms/main.pl?action=editorial |title=Publications Committee |website=Cumbria Past |publisher=Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society |accessdate=21 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630095713/http://cumbriapast.com/cgi-bin/ms/main.pl?action=editorial |archive-date=30 June 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Select publications===
*Mullett, M.A., ''Patronage, Power and Politics in Appleby in the Era of Lady Anne Clifford 1649–1689'', 2015. 
*Zant, J., ''Penrith: the Historic Core'', 2015.
*Brennand, M. & Stringer, K.J. (Eds), ''The Making of Carlisle: from Romans to Railways'', 2011.
*Cherry, P., ''Studies in Northern Prehistory '', 2007.
*Austin, P.S., ''Bewcastle and Old Penrith '', 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cumbriapast.com/cgi-bin/ms/main.pl?action=publications&pub_id=85&archive= |title=Publications available |website=Cumbria Past |publisher=Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society |accessdate=21 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630080411/http://cumbriapast.com/cgi-bin/ms/main.pl?action=publications&pub_id=85&archive= |archive-date=30 June 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Presidents==

* 1866–72 William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale
* 1948–51 Kate S. Hodgson
* 1996–99 Dr John Macnair Todd
* 2005–08 Prof. David C. A. Shotter
* 2008–11 Prof. A. J. L. Winchester
* 2017–20 Prof. Rosemary Cramp
* 2020–present Dr Rob David

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |first1=Michael |last1=Winstanley |first2=Rob |last2=David |first3=Ian D. |last3=Whyte |title=Revealing Cumbria's Past: 150 Years of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society |publisher=Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society |series=Extra ser. |volume=45 |year=2016 |isbn=9781873 124734 }}

==External links==
*{{official|url=http://cumbriapast.com/cgi-bin/ms/main.pl?action=home}}
*{{cite web |url=http://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cumbwestantiqsociety.pdf |title=Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society publications |publisher=Royal Historical Society |accessdate=9 December 2016 }}
*{{cite web |url=http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/cumberland/ |title=Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Transactions |publisher=Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society |accessdate=24 March 2017}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.biab.ac.uk/series/183 |title=Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society |publisher=British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography |accessdate=9 December 2016 }}


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