Camden Society

The Camden Society was founded in 1838 in London to issue a historical source texts for English history. In 1897 it merged with the Royal Historical Society, which published from then on the Camden series of source publications and reprints. By 2012 it had grown to 325 volumes, which now appeared in the fifth series. They appear today by Cambridge University Press.

It is named after the Elizabethan historian William Camden. Was modeled on a similar company ( Surtees Society, founded in 1834 ), the printed source texts for the North of England and founders were antiquarians and historians John Gough Nichols ( 1806-1873 ), John Bruce ( 1802-1869 ) and Thomas Wright ( 1810-1877 ) and Thomas Amyot (1775-1850), Frederic Madden (1801-1873), Thomas Crofton Croker, John Payne Collier (1789-1883, Shakespeare expert and forgers ) and Joseph Hunter ( 1783-1861 ). Its first president was Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere. Initially, they had 500 members, often including members of the Society of Antiquaries of London, who received around two publications per year in subscription.

It is not to be confused with the Cambridge Camden Society, founded in 1839 within the Anglican Church or to a charity of the same British for the disabled.