GENERAL EVENTS
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Cumbria Local History Federation AGM & Annual Convention
2025 AGM and Convention
Saturday 4th October 2025 at Newbiggin Village Hall.
Proposed topic Medieval Cumbria.
Member Group Events
N.B. All talks start at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated.
Please be aware that events may be cancelled due to illness - or the weather!
West Cumbria | Cockermouth Heritage Group
The Taste of the Lake District: Cockermouth, Beer & the Jennings Brewery : Explore the history of brewing in Cockermouth and the leading role Jennings Brewery played in the town economically and socially in our latest exhibition. The exhibition has been curated by Charlotte Fairbairn working with volunteers from the Cockermouth Heritage Group.
The exhibition will be open every day between 6th and 16th December from 11am - 4pm
South Cumbria | Monday 9th December 2024 @2.30pm
100 years of Toys | Speaker: Rod Moore
Cartmel Fell & District LHS, Parish Rooms, Cartmel Fell, Grange over Sands, LA11 6NH. Visitors £5.
SW Cumbria | Monday 9th December 2024
Mediaeval armour and warfare (with practical demo!) | Speaker: Adrian Waites
Lunesdale Archaeology, Tebay Methodist Chapel CA10 3XB. Visitors £3.
SW Cumbria | Wednesday 11th December 2024
Retired Coroner paints a picture of his working life | Speaker Ian Smith
Dalton Local History, St Msry's Church Centre, Dalton-in-Furness LA15 8AZ Visitors £3.50 Refreshments served.
N Cumbria | Saturday 14th December 2024 2.30 pm
Bishop Stillington | Catherine Symons Richard III, Pennine & North Lakes. Hebron Church, 98 Botchergate, Carlisle, CA6 1SN
SE Cumbria | Monday 16th December 2024
John Newton of Enyeat, Endmoor | Peter Williams Burton Holme & District LHS, Memorial Hall, Main St, Burton-in-Kendal, Carnforth LA6 1NA. Visitors £3.
SE Cumbria | Monday 16th December 2024 @2.30pm
A welcome in the hills: refugee lives in the 1930s | Rob David Upper Eden History Society, The Hall (School Room) Methodist Church, Kirkby Stephen CA17 4SG Visitors £3
NW Cumbria | Tuesday 19th December 2024 @7pm
A Lake District Christmas | Alan Cleaver Distington Family and Local History Society. Community Centre, Church Road, Distington.
2025
SE Cumbria | Tuesday 7th January 2025
Voices from the Wall: Dacians and Romanians in Britain | Speaker Bronwen Riley
Bampton and District Local History Society. Bampton Memorial Hall, Visitors £3
SE Cumbria | Wednesday 8th January 2025 by Zoom
Muncaster Castle’s secret wartime art mission | Speaker: Dr Rob David
Sedbergh and District History Society. Non-members £2.
South Cumbria | January 13th 2025
Defending the Docks - Wartime Barrow | Speaker: Claire Bradshaw of Morecambe Bay Partnership
Cartmel Fell & District LHS, Parish Rooms, Cartmel Fell, Grange over Sands, LA11 6NH. Visitors £5.
South Cumbria | January 13th 2025 (time tbc)
AGM followed by members' research findings
Cartmel Fell & District LHS, Parish Rooms, Cartmel Fell, Grange over Sands, LA11 6NH. Visitors £5.
SW Cumbria | Saturday 18th January 2025 10.30am - 2.30pm
Display of Archive Material
Duddon Valley Local History Group
SW Cumbria | Saturday 18th January 2025
The Ennerdale Commons | Bill Rawling SW Cumbria History & Archaeology Society (CWAAS)
SE Cumbria | Monday 20th January 2025 @2.30pm
Medieval Arms and Armour | Adrian Waite Upper Eden History Society, The Hall (School Room) Methodist Church, Kirkby Stephen CA17 4SG Visitors £3
SE Cumbria | Wednesday 22nd January 2025 by Zoom
Edwin Butterworth, ‘Lancashire’s Forgotten Historian’ | Speaker: Dr Mike Winstanley
Sedbergh and District History Society. Non-members £2.
SW Cumbria | Monday 27th January 2025
The Lowther Medieval Castle and Village Project | Sophie Ambler and Jim Morris Kendal Historical & Archaeological Society, The Castle Street Community Centre, Castle St, Kendal, LA9 7AD
SE Cumbria | Tuesday 4th February 2025
Vicars of Askham Unexpected, Quirky, Tragic, Curious .... and Shocking | Speaker Sarah Banks
Bampton and District Local History Society. Bampton Memorial Hall, Visitors £3
SE Cumbria | Wednesday 5th February 2025
‘Communities built in turf and stone: understanding 9000 years of life and death on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Western Scotland’ | Speaker: Hannah Cobb
Sedbergh and District History Society, People's Hall Committee Room, Howgill Ln, Sedbergh LA10 5DQ. Visitors £2.
North Cumbria | Thursday 6th February 2025
Featherstone P.O.W camp | Speaker Alison Higgs Warwick Bridge & District Local History Group, Downagate Centre, Warwick Bridge CA4 8AE
South Cumbria | Monday 10th February 2025 @2.30pm
Muck, Medicine and Mortality | Speaker: Mike Winstanley
Cartmel Fell & District LHS, Parish Rooms, Cartmel Fell, Grange over Sands, LA11 6NH. Visitors £5.
SE Cumbria | Monday 17th February 2025 @ 2.30pm
Trans-Siberian/Trans-Mongolian Railways | Raynor Shaw Upper Eden History Society, The Hall (School Room) Methodist Church, Kirkby Stephen CA17 4SG Visitors £3
SW Cumbria | Monday 17th February 2025
The Ice Age in Cumbria | Dr Paul Carling. History of Kirkby Group, Kirkby Community Centre LA17 7TG. Visitors £2
SE Cumbria | Wednesday 19th February 2024
The Great Awakening in the North-West (Dent and Kendal): the Reverend Benjamin Ingham (1712-62) and the Inghamites’. | Speaker: Maureen Street
Sedbergh and District History Society, People's Hall Committee Room, Howgill Ln, Sedbergh LA10 5DQ. Visitors tbc
SW Cumbria | Monday 24th February 2025
Cumbria's first farmers | Speaker Gill Hey Kendal Historical & Archaeological Society, The Castle Street Community Centre, Castle St, Kendal, LA9 7AD
SW Cumbria | Wednesday 26th February 2025
Making a Grand Entrance: Building History through Cumbrian Doorways | Speaker: Andy Lowe
Duddon Valley LHG, the Rankin Room, Victory Hall, Broughton in Furness. Visitors tbc
SE Cumbria | Tuesday 4th March 2025
Economic migration in the 1800s: Starting a new life in Manchester for Westmorland Families | Speaker Val Fermer
Bampton and District Local History Society. Bampton Memorial Hall, Visitors £3
SE Cumbria | Wednesday 5th March 2024 by Zoom
Archaeology finds | Speaker: Malin Holst
Sedbergh and District History Society. Non-members tbc.
SW Cumbria | Monday 10th March 2025
Life, leavings and legacy of the German miners in Elizabethan Keswick | Speaker: Mark Hatton
Lunesdale Archaeology, Tebay Methodist Chapel CA10 3XB. Visitors £3.
South Cumbria | Monday 10th March 2025 @2.30pm
The Postal Workers of Cumbria: a look at the postmasters, posties, telegraph boys and others employed by the GPO together with rural postal routes, postmen’s huts and post boxes. | Speaker: Mike Mapleton
Cartmel Fell & District LHS, Parish Rooms, Cartmel Fell, Grange over Sands, LA11 6NH. Visitors £5.
SE Cumbria | Monday 17th March 2025 @2.30pm
Life and Warfare in the Viking Age | Terry Harvey-Chad Upper Eden History Society, The Hall (School Room) Methodist Church, Kirkby Stephen CA17 4SG Visitors £3
SW Cumbria | Monday 17th March 2025
Ulverston Founders | Dan Elsworth History of Kirkby Group, Kirkby Community Centre LA17 7TG. Visitors £2
SW Cumbria | Monday 24th March 2025
A history of corn milling in Cumbria with reference to Warwick Bridge Corn Mill | Graham Brooks Kendal Historical & Archaeological Society, The Castle Street Community Centre, Castle St, Kendal, LA9 7AD
SW Cumbria | Wednesday 26th March 2025
Shard Fences Research | Speaker: Stephe Cove
Duddon Valley LHG, the Rankin Room, Victory Hall, Broughton in Furness. Visitors tbc
SE Cumbria | Tuesday 1st April 2025
Wrestlers, Crucks and Mullions Traditional Lake District Architecture | Speaker Andy Lowe
Bampton and District Local History Society. Bampton Memorial Hall, Visitors £3
North Cumbria | Thursday 3rd April 2025
The Basque Children in Brampton | Speaker Rob David Warwick Bridge & District Local History Group, Downagate Centre, Warwick Bridge CA4 8AE
SE Cumbria | Monday 14th April 2025 @7.30pm
AGM and More than a Memorial: the surprising story of the Blanche Hewetson Memorial window in St. Oswald's Church Ravenstonedale. Upper Eden History Society, The Hall (School Room) Methodist Church, Kirkby Stephen CA17 4SG Visitors £3
SE Cumbria | Monday 14th April 2025 @ 7pm.
AGM followed by talk: Routeways across Stainmore and the Roman road | Speaker: Mike Haken
Lunesdale Archaeology, Tebay Methodist Chapel CA10 3XB. Visitors £3.
SW Cumbria | 23rd April 2025
Swarthmoor Hall and its People | Revd Dr David Jackson. Duddon Valley Local History Group. victory Hall, Broughton in Furness.
SE Cumbria | Monday 28th April 2025
AGM and The Borrowdale Wad Mine | Speaker Mark Hatton Kendal Historical & Archaeological Society, The Castle Street Community Centre, Castle St, Kendal, LA9 7AD
SW Cumbria | 19th May 2025
Shard Fences Research | Stephe Cove History of Kirkby Group, Kirkby Community Centre LA17 7TG. Visitors £2
SW Cumbria | 25th June 2025
Eskdale Mill| Paul Pharoah. Duddon Valley Local History Group. victory Hall, Broughton in Furness.
SW Cumbria | Monday 21st July 2025
The High Road to Dalton | Dr Suzanne Tiplady History of Kirkby Group, Kirkby Community Centre LA17 7TG. Visitors £2
SW Cumbria | 23rd July 2025
AGM & George Romney: A Furness Prodigy in London Duddon Valley Local History Group. victory Hall, Broughton in Furness.