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CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL - CABINET

GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO HUNT FOR NEW CULTURAL BASE

A renewed search to find a home for Cambridgeshire’s priceless archives has been given the green light by the County Council’s Cabinet.  For full details click here

Cambridgeshire Association for Local History

Local, Family & Social History Awards for 2008

The Book Awards for 2007 have now been awarded and full details of the awards are published below:

For full details and images from the awards please click here

These were awarded on the 3rd May 2008 at Great Abington Village Institute

Since the beginning of March these books have been reviewed by the members of the CALH Executive Committee, in general reviewing 4 books each.  Then, on the 10th April 2008, the CALH Executive Committee met and members presented their choice of books from their selection of 4 books.  This resulted in 19 books being carried forward to the final round.  After a final in-depth analysis, 11 books and their authors were finally selected to receive the Awards and their framed certificates.

Here are the details of the 58 Shortlisted Books for 2007

The 11 Books Finally Selected (see link for their ISBN no.s & where they can be purchased from) are as follows, note they are no particular order:

All these awards will be presented on May 3rd 2008 at Gt Abington.

Services to Local History Awards 2008

The candidates for the receipt of the "Services to Local History Award" for 2008 have been finalised and will receive a framed certificates. The recipients of the award for 2008 are:

Cambridgeshire Young Persons History Awards 2007

The following is the school that has presented a very special projects and work and will receive their award at the May 3rd 2008 at Gt Abington.

Cambridgeshire Community Archives Network (CCAN)

One much more happier and exciting piece of news is that the CALH Committee is in discussion with the Cambridgeshire Community Archives Network (CCAN) to form a close working relationship when the initial funding and relationship with the County Council draws to a close in August this year.  Some of you may already be a member of the around 50 digital community archive groups around the county, several of our committee members are involved in groups as wide apart as March and Linton.

The basic principle that is being discussed is that the CCAN would continue; retaining its own unique identity and would be administered by its own committee, as a sub-group under the umbrella of the CALH.  All of the 50 digital community archive groups will continue to operate independently, but would become ‘affiliated members’ of the CALH, with all the benefits that would bring.  The CCAN County committee would provide such things as technical and training support, administration, publicity, exhibition organisation, and most importantly a unified voice for CCAN in all its future network/server agreements.  Links with the County Council would be maintained via Steve Capes being on the committee, Steve helped set up the scheme in the county.

This basic concept of this arrangement has been accepted in principle by both the CCAN and CALH and the fine details will be worked out in the coming months.  In the meantime, please do visit the CCAN website (www.ccan.co.uk), where you can see all the photographs, text, sound and video archives that have been digitised and uploaded already.  You may like to join a digital community archive group near you?

If an agreement can be made, this will be great news for both the CALH and CCAN and is very good news for future of Local and Social history in Cambridgeshire.