Camden Society

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The Camden Society was a British historical society that became the Royal Historical Society in 1897 .

history

The Camden Society was founded in London in 1838 to publish historical source texts on English history. In 1897 they merged with the Royal Historical Society , which from then on issued the Camden series of source publications and reprints. By 2012 it had grown to 325 volumes, which are now in their fifth series. They are published today by Cambridge University Press.

It is named after the Elizabethan historian William Camden (1551-1623). The model was a similar society (Surtees Society, founded in 1834), which printed source texts for northern England, and founders were the antiquarians and historians John Gough Nichols (1806–1873), John Bruce (1802–1869) and Thomas Wright (1810–1877) and Thomas Amyot (1775-1850), Frederic Madden (1801-1873), Thomas Crofton Croker , John Payne Collier (1789-1883, Shakespeare expert and forger) and Joseph Hunter (1783-1861). The first president was Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere . At first they had 500 members, often also members of the Society of Antiquaries of London , who received the roughly two publications annually by subscription.

It is not to be confused with the Cambridge Camden Society, founded in 1839 within the Anglican Church, or with a British aid organization of the same name for the disabled.

literature

  • Charles Johnson: The Camden Society, 1838-1938. In: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Volume 22, 1940, pp. 23-38.
  • Philippa Levine: The Amateur and the Professional: antiquarians, historians and archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838–1886. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  • FJ Levy: The Founding of the Camden Society. In: Victorian Studies. Volume 7, 1964, pp. 295-305.
  • Alexander Taylor Milne: A Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Royal Historical Society 1868-1968 and of the former Camden Society 1838-1897 (= Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. Volume 9). Royal Historical Society, London 1968.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Victorian Web, Camden Society