About Us
MAKING HISTORY: Our first twenty-five years
Campden and District Historical and Archaeological Society (CADHAS) celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of our foundation with an Exhibition in April 2009, entitled ‘MAKING HISTORY: Our first twenty-five years’.
The displays showed examples of CADHAS activities and achievements in its first quarter century, displaying some of the artefacts, photographs and research gathered since its formation. Several of the founding members attended the exhibition, which was officially opened by Honorary Member Dr. Craig Fees.
Since the Archive Room itself was opened in 2003, CADHAS has helped well over 500 people from all over the world with their queries on Campden’s local and family history.
The President of Campden and District Historical & Archaeological Society is Professor Christopher Dyer BA PhD FBA FSA FRHS, who is Professor of Regional & Local History at University of Leicester.
Prof. Dyer has written many books on medieval history and in 2007 was the Editor of ‘The Self-contained Village? The social history of rural communities’.
He is currently Chairman of the Dugdale Society and of the Records and Social and Economic History committee of the British Academy and was awarded a CBE in The Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2008.
The Vice-Presidents are Jill Wilson and Carol Jackson.
Jill is the immediate past Chairman of CADHAS with a particular interest in Campden’s development as a market town in medieval times. She gives lectures on ‘Campden in the Civil War’ and provided the material for the 2006 Annual Exhibition.
Carol is a past Chairman and Programme Officer, and has other current roles within the Society as Editor of Notes and Queries and the Queries Co-ordinator in the Local History Room.
The Chairman is Judith Ellis.
Judith set up the CADHAS Community Archive and led a group that published ‘Trading Places’. She is currently researching the impact of the poor law on Campden people.
Members
CADHAS has over 200 members, most whom live within travelling distance and are able to take advantage of full membership, attending lectures and participating in outings.
CADHAS volunteers participate in a variety of ways, depending on their interests:
- Assisting the Archivist, Olivia Amphlett, with accessing donations to the Archives
- Staffing the Local History Room, to answer enquiries
- Undertaking research for projects, publications and exhibitions
- Transcribing public records such as the censuses, parish registers and local newspapers
- Scanning photographs and documents
- Making oral history recordings
- Giving presentations that involve the community
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