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Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies


Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies is dedicated to preserving and actively promoting the use of original historical records of Cambridgeshire, including the former counties of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely.

Original archive documents can be consulted at the archive repositories in Huntingdon and Cambridge, while printed material and audio-visual resources are available in Cambridgeshire's Local Studies Libraries.

Please note that we are currently unable to accept donations or deposits of historical records at our Cambridge branch. This is due to the need to prioritise staff resource on preparing to move our records to new buildings. For more information, please follow the link in the right-hand column to "Acquisitions policy."



 

A new online display of archive documents marks the launch of the UK's Cultural Olympiad in September 2008, drawing on resources at Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archives to reveal the history of sport.
Going for Gold with Cambridgeshire Archives
 
Or what Daniel Defore said about Stilton cheese? Or what Henry Rider Haggard thought of the cottages in Bluntisham? All these questions, and more, are answered in a new online display from Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies
Do you know what Karl Marx wrote about Cambridgeshire?
 
Cambridgeshire Archives' online catalogue database now includes more than 3000 preview images of historical documents
Three thousand archive images now online
 
A letter by Dr Robert Darwin, written in 1810 when his son Charles was one year old, has been found in Cambridgeshire Archives
Letter by Charles Darwin's father found in archives
 

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Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies
Box RES 1009
Shire Hall
Castle Hill
Cambridge
CB3 0AP
Tel: 01223 699399
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