Today is my first day volunteering for #CambridgeshireArchives and I'm looking forward referencing documents for the county #genealogy
November 13, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Today is my first day volunteering for #CambridgeshireArchives and I'm looking forward referencing documents for the county #genealogy
Two photos of the same manorial court roll, one taken before conservation, the other afterwards. I am in awe of what archive conservators can do #conservation #cambridgeshirearchives
January 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Two photos of the same manorial court roll, one taken before conservation, the other afterwards. I am in awe of what archive conservators can do #conservation #cambridgeshirearchives
850 tonnes of paper, on 7 miles of shelving. Crikey. Thanks to #CambridgeshireArchives for the tour! 📚
January 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
850 tonnes of paper, on 7 miles of shelving. Crikey. Thanks to #CambridgeshireArchives for the tour! 📚
The cherry trees outside our Ely archives building are in blossom #cambridgeshirearchives
April 7, 2026 at 9:46 AM
The cherry trees outside our Ely archives building are in blossom #cambridgeshirearchives
Our very own Public Services Archivist Sue Sampson will be there too, talking about sources at #cambridgeshirearchives
Want to learn more about doing family history in Cambs and Hunts? Why not book on to this event from the Society of Genealogists on Tuesday 7th September 2-4pm portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/2... I'll be talking on local studies, with the family history society, Cambridgeshire Archives and others
Researching in Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire
FREE event.
Book a spot to watch live. No pre-booking required to view the recording which will be available in the SoG Learning Hub.
portal.sog.org.uk
July 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Our very own Public Services Archivist Sue Sampson will be there too, talking about sources at #cambridgeshirearchives
This new exhibition, opening today, includes documents on loan from Cambridgeshire Archives (including Olaudah Equiano's will of 1797) and from the Cambridgeshire Collection. Am thrilled that we have been able to contribute to such an important Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition #cambridgeshirearchives
New exhibition called Rise Up at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge will tell the story of Black abolitionists in the 18th & 19th century 👇
BBC News - Cambridge exhibit explores forgotten Black abolitionists' roles - BBC News
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BBC News - Cambridge exhibit explores forgotten Black abolitionists' roles - BBC News
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Cambridge exhibit explores forgotten Black abolitionists' roles
It will celebrate
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February 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This new exhibition, opening today, includes documents on loan from Cambridgeshire Archives (including Olaudah Equiano's will of 1797) and from the Cambridgeshire Collection. Am thrilled that we have been able to contribute to such an important Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition #cambridgeshirearchives
Cambridgeshire Archive Assistants Yaye and Jayne at the IHR History Fair today #cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #HistDay25
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Cambridgeshire Archive Assistants Yaye and Jayne at the IHR History Fair today #cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #HistDay25
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire parish registers are now available on Ancestry. Over four million entries!
www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/recent-co...
#genealogy #familyhistory #cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #chfhs #cambs #hunts #parishregisters
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#genealogy #familyhistory #cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #chfhs #cambs #hunts #parishregisters
Recently Added and Updated Collections on Ancestry
www.ancestry.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire parish registers are now available on Ancestry. Over four million entries!
www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/recent-co...
#genealogy #familyhistory #cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #chfhs #cambs #hunts #parishregisters
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#genealogy #familyhistory #cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #chfhs #cambs #hunts #parishregisters
Thrilled to have been able to purchase this document from a private owner in South Africa, thanks entirely to the generosity of the Friends of the Nations' Libraries. Thank you @thefnl.bsky.social! #cambridgeshirearchives
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Cambridgeshire Archives acquires 18th Century Chesterton terrier
Cambridgeshire Archives have secured grant funding to acquire a ‘terrier’ - which offers a snapshot of 18th century life in Chesterton, Cambridge.
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thrilled to have been able to purchase this document from a private owner in South Africa, thanks entirely to the generosity of the Friends of the Nations' Libraries. Thank you @thefnl.bsky.social! #cambridgeshirearchives
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/news/cambrid...
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Our new catalogue system has gone live today! Huge thank you to the archives team who have worked hard to clean and QA the data before importing everything, and to our colleagues in IT who led the procurement project. You can visit it here archives.cambridgeshire.gov.uk
#cambridgeshirearchives
#cambridgeshirearchives
March 27, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Our new catalogue system has gone live today! Huge thank you to the archives team who have worked hard to clean and QA the data before importing everything, and to our colleagues in IT who led the procurement project. You can visit it here archives.cambridgeshire.gov.uk
#cambridgeshirearchives
#cambridgeshirearchives
#cambridgeshirearchives will be there 😀
📣The 2025 Cambridge Archives & Collections Fair is being held at the Student Services Centre on Thursday 13 March.
📍Drop in to find out about the archival resources in Cambridge from the specialists who care for them.
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#ArchiveFair25
📍Drop in to find out about the archival resources in Cambridge from the specialists who care for them.
🔗 loom.ly/wqyhEYU
#ArchiveFair25
Cambridge Archives & Collections Fair
Discover special collections in Cambridge
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March 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
#cambridgeshirearchives will be there 😀
#cambridgeshirearchives is being spruced up! - Property colleagues will be doing various jobs around the building over the next few weeks. The scaffolding you can see here is so they can reach into the roof gutters and clean them all out.
October 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#cambridgeshirearchives is being spruced up! - Property colleagues will be doing various jobs around the building over the next few weeks. The scaffolding you can see here is so they can reach into the roof gutters and clean them all out.
Cambridgeshire Archives is there today too! 😀 #cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #HistDay25
We're here today from 11- 4 at the Institute of Historical Research's History Day!
Pop by for a chat about our collections, services and London's history.
@ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
Pop by for a chat about our collections, services and London's history.
@ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Cambridgeshire Archives is there today too! 😀 #cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #HistDay25
Today was my turn in the bake off! - I made some lemon tarts, using a 1950s recipe from the Chivers collection. "Bake in a moderate oven" was all it said, so the baking time was complete guesswork. The team have all been very kind and said how much they liked them 😀 #bakeoff #cambridgeshirearchives
October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Today was my turn in the bake off! - I made some lemon tarts, using a 1950s recipe from the Chivers collection. "Bake in a moderate oven" was all it said, so the baking time was complete guesswork. The team have all been very kind and said how much they liked them 😀 #bakeoff #cambridgeshirearchives
#randomdocument 18: a tracing made in 1860 of one of William Palmer's 1656 plans of Soham and Fordham manor, showing the names of the people who held the right to farm each individual strip. #cambridgeshirearchives #manors #maps #mapsky #stripfields
April 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#randomdocument 18: a tracing made in 1860 of one of William Palmer's 1656 plans of Soham and Fordham manor, showing the names of the people who held the right to farm each individual strip. #cambridgeshirearchives #manors #maps #mapsky #stripfields
Nice wallpaper! One of our searchers has had a huge copy of our 1604 map of the Fens printed for the wall of their office #cambridgeshirearchives #oldmaps #fens #fenland
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A big thank you to Cambridgeshire Archives Service and The Cambridge Sign Company for helping us turn our vision for the office into reality.
We now have a stock of maps digitalised for use in our.....
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September 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Nice wallpaper! One of our searchers has had a huge copy of our 1604 map of the Fens printed for the wall of their office #cambridgeshirearchives #oldmaps #fens #fenland
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Pressed flowers from the Vatican's garden. These were preserved in Stella Barnes's detailed and very interesting diaries of her stay in Rome in 1927, during which she briefly saw Pope Pius XI. #cambridgeshirearchives #vatican
April 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Pressed flowers from the Vatican's garden. These were preserved in Stella Barnes's detailed and very interesting diaries of her stay in Rome in 1927, during which she briefly saw Pope Pius XI. #cambridgeshirearchives #vatican
We have been accredited by TNA for another three years! Thank you so much to the Cambridgeshire County Council archives team whose hard work and dedication has achieved this recognition www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/news/cambrid...
#cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #cambridgeshire
#cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire archives services recognised with national re-accreditation
Cambridgeshire Archives has had its accreditation status renewed following an inspection from The National Archives (TNA).
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk
January 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
We have been accredited by TNA for another three years! Thank you so much to the Cambridgeshire County Council archives team whose hard work and dedication has achieved this recognition www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/news/cambrid...
#cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #cambridgeshire
#cambridgeshirearchives #huntingdonshirearchives #cambridgeshire
#randomdocument 20: "Bennet is punish’t Sixpence for pocketing the Cucumber & one Shilling for Blotting the Book." Always nice to see justice done for cucumber pocketing. From the Society of Cambridge Youths account book for 1764 #cambridgeshirearchives
July 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#randomdocument 20: "Bennet is punish’t Sixpence for pocketing the Cucumber & one Shilling for Blotting the Book." Always nice to see justice done for cucumber pocketing. From the Society of Cambridge Youths account book for 1764 #cambridgeshirearchives
Our in-house archives photographer Soo has just finished creating this digital image of a 200 year old inclosure map. It is made up of 16 smaller photographs digitally stitched together. I'll put a detail in a reply. Awesome work. The original map is nearly eight feet long #cambridgeshirearchives
February 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Our in-house archives photographer Soo has just finished creating this digital image of a 200 year old inclosure map. It is made up of 16 smaller photographs digitally stitched together. I'll put a detail in a reply. Awesome work. The original map is nearly eight feet long #cambridgeshirearchives
From our archives /5. Fen skating used to be huge in the Cambridgeshire fens. Here's the one-mile amateur race at Swavesey in 1893 between local man A.E. Tebbit from Milton and F. Hiam from Stratford. Tebbit won. Doc ref CA 695/Z29. #cambridgeshirearchives #randomdocument #fenskating #skating
January 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
From our archives /5. Fen skating used to be huge in the Cambridgeshire fens. Here's the one-mile amateur race at Swavesey in 1893 between local man A.E. Tebbit from Milton and F. Hiam from Stratford. Tebbit won. Doc ref CA 695/Z29. #cambridgeshirearchives #randomdocument #fenskating #skating
From our archives /2. Tuberculosis patients at Papworth TB settlement, photographed in 1920. Document ref 1140/5/14/124.
#randomdocument #cambridgeshirearchives #papworthhospital
#randomdocument #cambridgeshirearchives #papworthhospital
January 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
From our archives /2. Tuberculosis patients at Papworth TB settlement, photographed in 1920. Document ref 1140/5/14/124.
#randomdocument #cambridgeshirearchives #papworthhospital
#randomdocument #cambridgeshirearchives #papworthhospital
And the news is... IT LOOKS BRILLIANT. Congratulations to Alan and the rest of the team for boxing, barcoding and relocating just the 35,000 boxes to their new home! They'll be opening to the public on 10 December #CambridgeshireArchives
January 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
And the news is... IT LOOKS BRILLIANT. Congratulations to Alan and the rest of the team for boxing, barcoding and relocating just the 35,000 boxes to their new home! They'll be opening to the public on 10 December #CambridgeshireArchives
Random document 1. A detail from the original architectural plans of Old Shire Hall, from 1930, showing the main entrance. Doc ref CC7/ARCH/Z.1 part. #cambridgeshirearchives #randomdocument
January 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Random document 1. A detail from the original architectural plans of Old Shire Hall, from 1930, showing the main entrance. Doc ref CC7/ARCH/Z.1 part. #cambridgeshirearchives #randomdocument
Here's a newspaper cutting about Nazis getting thrown into a river, pasted inside the City of Ely Amateur Swimming Club's minute book of 1939-1940. Document ref CA 2620/1/3. #randomdocument #cambridgeshirearchives
January 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Here's a newspaper cutting about Nazis getting thrown into a river, pasted inside the City of Ely Amateur Swimming Club's minute book of 1939-1940. Document ref CA 2620/1/3. #randomdocument #cambridgeshirearchives