Cambridgeshire Archives Service

12/06/2026

10/06/2026

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

To celebrate, we’re sharing these photos of the Pride flag being raised for the first time at Cambridge Guildhall in 2010, which come from a collection of records from the Encompass Network charity.

09/06/2026

Announcement📢
Huntingdonshire Archives will be closed Monday 15th June.

26/05/2026

With temperatures soaring outside, we’re keeping cool here in the archives! We keep our documents in temperature and humidity controlled strongrooms, so they’re a particularly nice place to work on a day like today!

18/05/2026

Mud, Sweat and Engineers🪏

On Saturday 16th May, Cambridgeshire Archives was invited to speak at the annual study day of the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA) which was held at The Maltings in Ely. The theme was ‘Communities and Landscape’, so we spoke about Fen Drainage with a talk entitled ‘Mud, Sweat and Engineers: the making of the modern fens’. We were delighted to have the opportunity to showcase a selection of our historical documents relating to local people and their involvement with (and opposition to) the drainage, including an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell. Many of the records date from the 17th century and are of national significance. Records are rarely taken out of the archives so this was a particularly special event!

Many thanks to AGRA for inviting us to be part of this very interesting day.

If you’re interested in learning more about the group talks we offer, please contact us at [email protected]

11/05/2026

11/05/2026

The FSB Scanning Bureau is part of Cambridgeshire Archives and specialises in the digital photography of historical documents.

Photographer Sue Martin and archivist Alan Akeroyd talk about the techniques of document digitisation, the photographic equipment they use and some of the archives which they have digitised over the years.

23/04/2026

A newspaper article in the Hunts County News was of interest to one recent enquirer to the archives.
Dated May 1926 and entitled ‘Policeman’s Wedding’, it includes a list of wedding gifts and some are quite comical by today’s standards! The happy couple were William Packwood and Margaret Katie Furze.
Interestingly, the same policeman can be found in the Hunts Constabulary Personnel book (Ref: 4440/398/88), a volume that is presently being indexed. When discharged, William’s service was noted as exemplary.
So please join us in celebrating William and Katies’s wedding anniversary. The marriage entry in the Huntingdon All Saints Church register (Ref: HP46/1/3/8) shows that the happy event took place on April 23rd 1926, so exactly one hundred years ago today!