:''Not to be confused with the
Cambridge Camden Society.''
The 'Camden Society', named after the early English historian
William Camden, was founded in
1838 in
London to publish early historical and literary materials, both unpublished manuscripts and new editions of rare printed books.
The original membership was 500. It reached a peak of 1250 in
1845, and began to decline thereafter. For an annual subscription (originally £1 per year), members received the Society's publications, roughly two volumes per year. The Society published some works jointly with the
Early English Text Society.
By the
1880s, the Camden Society was experiencing financial problems, brought about in part by a project to create a general index to its first 100 volumes. In
1896, the Society merged with the
Royal Historical Society.
External links
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A list of publications of the Camden Society.