This page contains external links to other societies, archives and colleges with similar interests to FoCAS
Cumbria & Lancashire
Archive Centres are located at:-
Lady Gillford's House, Petteril Bank House, Carlisle CA1 3AJ 01228 227284
County Offices, Stricklandgate, Kendal LA9 4RQ 01539 713540
Scotch Street, Whitehaven CA28 7NL 01946 506420
140 Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness LA14 1XW 01229 407377
Cumbria County History Trust (VCH)
Cumbria Local History Federation
Cumbria Local Studies Libraries
If you have library membership you can access 'Find My Past' FOC for free.
This includes British Newspapers Online and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and much more.
Contrebis: journal of Lancaster Archaeological and Historical Society (from 1974)
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society(CWAAS/CumbriaPast)
includes a full run of Transactions from 1874
Cumbria Family History Society
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
includes a full run of Transactions since 1848
The Armitt Museum & Gallery, Ambleside
Regional Heritage Centre (Lancaster University)
Seeing the North with Sankey-Photo-in-Focus Exhibition
National
British Association of Local History (BALH)
Free Births, Marriages and Deaths (Free BMD)
British History Online (incl. VCH)
Internet Archive (more than 30 million digital books)
Association for Heritage Interpretation