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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... Society Founded in 1838 in honour of William Camden , for the purpose of publishing documents relating to the early history and literature of the British Empire. In 1897 it was amalgamated with the Royal Historical Society...
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The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... Society Named after William Camden , the antiquary, the Camden Society was formed in Cambridge in 1839 to further the cause of ecclesiology. It was enormously influential, through its journal, The Ecclesiologist , in determining the style of church building and restoration. The Society also published edited historical texts, with introductions. In 1897 it was amalgamated with the Royal Historical Society and represents their series of edited historical texts on extremely varied subjects. Five series have been published on an annual basis....
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... Society A society founded in 1838 for the publication of early historical texts and documents, named after William Camden ( 1551–1623 ), schoolmaster, antiquary and author of Britannia ( 1586 ), a survey of the British Isles. In 1897 the society amalgamated with the Royal Historical Society, and its long series of publications was transferred to that...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History
... Society . Named after William Camden, the antiquary , the Camden Society was formed in Cambridge in 1839 to further the cause of ecclesiology. It was enormously influential, through its journal, The Ecclesiologist , in determining the style of church building and restoration. The society also published edited historical texts, with introductions. In 1897 it was amalgamated with the Royal Historical Society and represents their series of edited historical texts on extremely varied...
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The Oxford Companion to the Book
... Society An association founded in 1838 for publishing historical MSS and reprinting early works relating to English history. The society was promoted by John Bowyer Nichols (proprietor of the * Gentleman’s Magazine and parliamentary printer), *Madden , J. P. *Collier , and other prominent antiquaries. Named after the 16 th -century historian William Camden , its annual meeting was for many years held on his birthday. By 1845 , membership had risen to 1,250 (including the Prince Consort). Two volumes were published in most of the early years, many...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
...Camden Society . A society founded in 1839 by J. M. Neale and B. Webb for the study of ecclesiastical art. Renamed the ‘Ecclesiological Society’ in 1846 , it survived until 1868...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
...Camden Society Founded (1839) as the Cambridge Society for the Study of Church Architecture, and named after the antiquary, William Camden (1551–1623), it was more than an antiquarian body. A pressure-group which set out to encourage scholarly restoration of decayed churches and the building of new ones that would provide suitable settings for a revived liturgy, it was a major factor in promoting the Gothic Revival , and became (1845) the Ecclesiological Society. Its ideals were set out in numerous publications, of which the Ecclesiologist (from...
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Stella Fletcher
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...to the Revival of Anglican Choral Worship 1839–62 (Aldershot, 1997). C. Webster and J. Elliott (eds), ‘A Church as it should be’: The Cambridge Camden Society and its Influence (Stamford, 2000). C. Webster (ed.), ‘Temples…worthy of His presence’: The Early Publications of the Cambridge Camden Society (Reading, 2003). Website of the Ecclesiological Society, a ‘successor’ society founded in 1879: < http://ecclsoc.org/...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture (2 ed.)
...Camden Society A society founded in 1839 , the same year as the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, both being deeply influenced by Pugin and the Oxford Movement . By 1843 it had 700 members, including the Archbishops of Canterbury and Armagh, and in that year it published Durandus 's On the Symbolism of Churches . The Society moved to London in 1846 , changing its name to the Ecclesiological Society, from its monthly journal, the Ecclesiologist ( 1841–68 ). Until it was wound up in 1868 both the Society and its...
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David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...established in 1869 and the British Record Society in 1888 ; the Index Library of the British Record Society began immediate publication with a calendar of Northamptonshire and Rutland wills, and in the following year with the first of many volumes relating to the records in the Public Record Office. The Rolls Series, the Camden Society , the Hakluyt Society , the Harleian Society , the Pipe Roll Society , the Selden Society , and the Huguenot Society , together with the county record‐publishing societies, printed large collections of records during...
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D. Huw Owen
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...of Britannia in 1610 . Camden's work also motivated Edward Lhuyd , of Llanforda, Oswestry. He contributed sections on Wales to Edmund Gibson 's new translation and edition, printed in 1695 . In 1697 he distributed 4 000 copies of his Parochial Queries , containing questions on antiquities, place‐names, customs, and natural history, and he toured Wales systematically in the following three years. His manuscripts illustrate his wide‐ranging antiquarian, archaeological, philological, and scientific interests. Camden's influence continued into the...
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Anthony Camp
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... had been first published in 1985 . The Society of Genealogists remained the only society catering for the subject in the British Isles until the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry was founded in 1963 . In the 1970s, with the great increase in interest in the subject, societies were founded in every county, many in time acquiring numerous branches. Their members, often without any formal academic background or training, were encouraged to trace their ancestors. These family history societies have brought like‐minded people together...
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Margaret Gelling
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...which vary between the sensible, frequently correct observations of Sir William Dugdale on Warwickshire names and the totally fanciful, such as John Leland 's reported explanation of Maidenhead in terms of ‘a Hedde that they sayd was one of the xi thousand Virgines’. William Camden 's frequent etymologies are occasionally lucky (as ‘sheep island’ for Sheppey), but mostly impossible. The place‐name spellings offered by Leland and John Ogilby are particularly valuable because they represent spoken forms with little influence from earlier written ones. The...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...field include Camden 's Britannia ( 1586 in Latin, translated by E. Gibson , 1695 ) and Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britain ( 1607 ), John Stow 's Survey of London ( 1598 ), and above all the rich æuvre of John Aubrey ( 1626–97 ). Antiquarianism generally is a form of knowledge prompted and sustained by the early-seventeenth-century Baconian intellectual revolution. Francis Bacon ( 1561–1626 ) not only established but also popularized the notion that knowledge was to be actively sought for, in nature and in society, present and...
Royal Historical Society
Ecclesiologist
Benjamin Webb
