Cambridgeshire LHS gives itself
a makeover and a new name

After fifty-five years, Cambridgeshire Local History Society has given itself a makeover and been re-launched as the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History (CALH) with improved methods of communication and a new logo. The launch has been accompanied by new, user friendly, website, which hosts an easily downloadable on-line newsletter and The Conduit, which is a comprehensive guide to local history related organisations in Cambridgeshire and their activities. Members attending the Society’s Annual General Meeting in May 2006 voted overwhelmingly to accept the changes.

Andrew Westwood-Bate, Secretary of CALH, told Local History Online that the ‘umbrella role of representing 80+ local and social history societies in Cambridgeshire needed to be re-emphasised’. CALH is particularly pleased that their new logo is the county’s coat of arms and that the Latin motto means ‘With One Heart Let Us Be Men of Understanding’ (see above right). The new website has been designed so that it can easily be kept up-to-date and that their new email service already has over 1,000 individual and group contacts.

Other new initiatives include the creation of a new award for ‘Services to Local History’ and the Cambridgeshire Young Person History Award (CYPHA), which aims to ‘encourage the historians of tomorrow’. CALH also arranges a seasonal lecture programme from October to May, with eleven lectures, including the AGM, plus an all day conference in February 2006 with the theme of ‘Women in History’ (for more details visit our Calendar section)

For more information contact: CALH, Secretary, Andrew Westwood-Bate, 5 Sleford Close, Balsham, Cambridge CB21 4DP, tel: 01223 892430, email: info@calh.org.uk; web: www.calh.org.uk.

11 October 2006