Royal Historical Society Camden Series

The Royal Historical Society (and its predecessor body, the Camden Society) has since 1838 published editions of sources on British History. It is a very good collection of editions of sources and important unpublished texts for historians, with expert commentary, and many of the early volumes remain in regular use. The publication is on-going (two volumes per annum), and the volumes are currently published by Cambridge University Press. The series now comprises over 325 volumes.

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Availability of electronic text

Over 325 volumes of the back list of Camden Society publications are now available on-line through Cambridge Journals Online, providing an extraordinarily rich conspectus of source material for British history as well as window on the development of historical scholarship in the English speaking world.

A number of volumes are freely available through British History OnLine.

Fifth Series volumes published in 2011-2012

Vol. 38.

Humayun Ansari ed., The Making of the East London Mosque, 1910-1951: Minutes of the London Mosque Fund and East London Mosque Trust Ltd.

In 2010, the East London Mosque celebrated its centenary. One hundred years earlier, the Aga Khan and Syed Ameer Ali had convened a public meeting at the London Ritz Hotel where they set out a strategy for the construction of a mosque in London, that would be worthy of the capital of the British Empire. The Mosque, however, took a long time to materialise. From the Commercial Road in the East End of London in which it was eventually first set up in 1941, it moved to Fieldgate Street and on to the Whitechapel Road in 1985. Through the lens of the original Minutes and related documents, Professor Ansari takes us on the fascinating journey of how the newly emerging confident Muslim community of the early twentieth century and major figures of the British establishment reached out to one another, each looking to nurture the development of this new multicultural society.

Vol. 39..

Andrew Hopper ed., The Papers of the Hothams, Governors of Hull during the Civil War

The role of Sir John Hotham in denying Charles I entrance to Hull in April 1642 is widely recognised as an important moment in the outbreak of civil war. yet the Hotham family's prominence in empowering and the sabotaging parliament's war effort has yet to attract similar interest. This volume will publish the letters and papers in the family archive held by the University of Hull, along with their surviving letters in the Hull corporation archive and the British and Bodleian libraries. It will also include the Hull and Beverley garrison accounts from the National Archives. This evidence will highlight their kinship networks, military resources and place within the parliamentarian coalition, demonstrating how northern affairs connected with Westminster politics. Also included are Sir John Hotham's defence papers at his trial for betraying parliament's cause in December 1644, conducted simultaneously with the self-denying ordinance and the new modelling of parliament's armies.

Vol. 40.

David Hay, Lisa Liddy and David Luscombe eds., A Monastic Community in Local Society: The Beauchief Abbey Cartulary

The Cartulary of Beauchief Abbey, here published for the first time with a full historical introduction and English summaries of all the Latin and French charters is an invaluable source for the study of relationships between a small community of regular canons with a large outreach in the English Midlands in the late Middle Ages. Over two hundred charters and a wide range of other sources show in considerable and valuable detail how the canons of Beauchief, although they belonged to a monastic order and led a life of withdrawal from the world nonetheless engaged successfully with numerous benefactors in contributing, by active management of properties and parishes, to the promotion of religious life in town and country as well as to long-lasting developments in farming and industry. This book underlines the increasing recognition of the historical importance of regular canons in late medieval England.