Cambridge Antiquarian Society
LDHS is now affiliated with the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (CAS). Our members can now enjoy the following benefits:
- Free access to the lecture series. (see details below)
- Access to the University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology Haddon Library.
- Reduced rate access to the Spring Conference.
- The autumn conference is always on recent archaeology in the region.
- In the spring and summer there are a series of excursions.
- LDHS will also receive a free copy of the Society’s journal, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and The Conduit Magazine.
Programme of Meetings:
The remaining meeting and events for 2010/11 are as follows:
Monday 7 March
5.45pm – Annual General Meeting
6pm – Belinda Crerar
The decapitated dead of Roman London and Cambridgeshire: a rural/urban divide?
Saturday 19 March Conference
From Camulodunum to Durobrivae, aspects of Roman Life in the Eastern Region.
Please click on links to see the programme details:
CAS Spring Conference Programme 2011
For details visit CAS website. Charge applicable. Although no details have been circulated to date, this Conference may well be of interest to local members of Longstanton and District. Information can also be obtained from the Conference Secretary, Mark Hinman, at conferences@camantsoc.org
Monday 4 April – 6pm
Dr Andrew Reid
Cattle droving and Cambridgeshire
This may be of interest to local LDHS members as it is possible that a route existed from Aldreth Causeway – Willingham – Longstanton – Oakington – Girton – Cambridge. Although there is little definitive evidence for this route, there is a possibility that there is an ancient route yet to be discovered. Perhaps Long Lane and the footpath over the golf course are part of a system of routes used by Drovers. It would be interesting to find out!
Monday 9 May – 6pm
Mark Hinman
New Landscapes of the Cambridgeshire Claylands
Monday 6 June* – 6pm
Professor Martin Millett
Rural Society in Roman Yorkshire – recent research
* Meetings of Council
As an affiliated society, LDHS members and their guests are welcome at any of these talks and conferences.
All meetings will be held in the Law Faculty building, West Road, Cambridge (ie: on the Sidgewick site) If any one needs a map please let us know.
Members of CAS (and LDHS as an affiliated society) are welcome to bring guests. In the meantime for further information on this or anything else please go to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society website:
The Haddon Library, Cambridge.
Founded by the pioneering anthropologist Alfred Haddon in 1920, it has amassed a remarkable collection of highly valuable resources with 62,000 books, pamphlets and periodical volumes over 90 years. The Haddon’s initial holdings comprised historic collections from the museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Over the years the collection has been enriched by the benefaction of many eminent donors.
Today the Haddon Library is actively seeking new benefactor’s to ensure that the outstanding collection keeps up to date in the 21st Century.
For more information on this valuable resource (which is now accessible to LDHS members) please go to their website: