The complete Camden Series now comprises over 390 volumes of primary source material, ranging from the early medieval to late-twentieth century Britain. The full series is available via Cambridge<\/strong>\u00a0Journals Online<\/strong><\/a>, providing an extraordinarily rich conspectus of source material for British History as well as insights into the development of historical scholarship in the English speaking world.<\/p>\n Full online access to all Camden Series titles is available to all Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society as part of the Society’s Member Benefits<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n A number of volumes are also freely available through British History Online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The Camden Series is edited by Dr Richard Gaunt<\/strong> (University of Nottingham) and Professor Siobhan Talbott<\/strong> (Keele University).<\/p>\n Richard is Associate Professor in History at the University of Nottingham, with expertise in the political and electoral history of late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. Siobhan is Reader in Early Modern History at Keele University, with research expertise in the economic and social history of Britain and the Atlantic World. Both have extensive experience of preparing and publishing scholarly editions of primary texts.<\/p>\n Richard and Siobhan welcome submissions for future Camden volumes. If you have a proposal for a Camden Society volume, please:<\/p>\n If you are a contracted author, please refer to the Camden Style Guidelines<\/a> <\/strong>when preparing your volume.<\/p>\n Fellows and members of the Society may purchase print copies of these, and other available Camden titles, for \u00a316 per volume by emailing: administration@royalhistsoc.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n LATEST<\/strong><\/span>: Volume 71:<\/strong> A Collector Collected: The Journals <\/i>of William Upcott, 1803<\/i>\u2013<\/i>1823<\/i><\/strong><\/a>, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Curtis Leung (December 2025)<\/p>\n Upcott\u2019s diaries are lively and engaging narratives of his life and activities in a world that he increasingly made his own, overcoming his deficiencies to become an accomplished bibliophile and collector.<\/p>\n A Collector Collected: The Journals <\/i>of William Upcott, 1803<\/i>\u2013<\/i>1823 <\/i><\/strong><\/em><\/a>is now available online and in print from Cambridge University Press (December 2025). To order in print please contact: administration@royalhistsoc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This volume presents the surviving holograph correspondence of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots as a stand-alone edition for the first time.\u00a0The 111 holograph letters (written in Margaret\u2019s own hand) and 4 \u2018hybrid\u2019 letters (written by a scribe, with a postscript or subsection by Margaret herself) form an unprecedented epistolary archive, featuring the largest collection of holograph correspondence written in English or Scots of any medieval or early modern queen.<\/p>\n The letters chart Margaret\u2019s life as a late medieval queen, including the challenges she faced in negotiating her dual identity as queen of Scots and an English princess, and her important role in Anglo-Scots politics and diplomacy in the early sixteenth century.<\/p>\n The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)<\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is published online and in print by Cambridge University Press (August 2025). To order in print please contact: administration@royalhistsoc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n NEW<\/span><\/strong>: Volume 69: The Papers of Admiral George Grey<\/i><\/a><\/strong>, edited by Michael Taylor (June 2025)<\/p>\n T<\/i>he Papers of Admiral George Grey <\/i>presents the memoir, journal, and correspondence of George Grey, son of the Whig prime minister Earl Grey.<\/p>\n This volume documents the Grey family\u2019s experience of the Whig ministry of 1830\u20131834, and George Grey\u2019s own naval career \u2013 which took him from the Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence, to a decisive survey of the Falkland Islands, and then to the capital cities of South America during their pivotal early decades of independence.<\/p>\n In doing so, the volume sheds new light on the political, diplomatic, naval, and imperial histories of the early and mid-nineteenth century.<\/p>\n The Papers of Admiral George<\/i><\/b><\/em> Grey <\/i><\/b><\/em><\/a>is published online and in print by Cambridge University Press (from June 2025). To order in print please contact: administration@royalhistsoc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke, was a prominent figure amongst the opposition to Charles I, a religious radical and intellectual who emerged as a successful popular leader in the early months of the English Civil War. This volume publishes the richly detailed household accounts kept for Brooke and his widow, Katherine, on an annual basis between 1640 and 1649.<\/p>\n These texts have scarcely been studied by historians. They are an illuminating source for Brooke\u2019s capacious intellectual, religious, and political networks, and for his mobilization of support for Parliament in 1642. They also uncover the administration of his estates and households in London, Warwickshire, and the Midlands before and after his premature death.<\/p>\n The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville<\/i><\/b>, Lord and Lady Brooke<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is published online and in print by Cambridge University Press (November 2024). To order in print please contact: administration@royalhistsoc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Allen Leeper, Oxford undergraduate and future Foreign Office mandarin, wrote regularly to his family in Australia from 1908 until he left university in 1912.<\/p>\n His letters, in Balliol College archives and the State Library of Victoria, record his experiences at Balliol, among a \u2018golden generation\u2019 decimated by the First World War, and on his extensive travels in Europe. They give a vivid picture of a continent on the eve of war, written by someone whose background afforded a degree of objectivity.<\/p>\n Allen Leeper\u2019s Letters Home, 1908\u20131912. <\/i>An Irish-Australian at Edwardian Oxford<\/i><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is now published online by Cambridge University Press (July 2024). To request a copy of the print edition, please email: administration@royalhistsoc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 66:<\/strong> The Last Days of English Tangier.<\/strong> The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681\u20131683<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, edited by John Childs (November 2023).<\/p>\n It contains 152 official letters mostly addressed to the Tangier Committee, the subcommittee of the Privy Council responsible for Tangerine affairs, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, Secretary of State for the South.<\/p>\n Kirke\u2019s correspondence traces the decay of both the town\u2019s military fabric and the soldiers\u2019 morale and effectiveness, and the impossibility of reaching a satisfactory modus vivendi<\/em> with the leaders of the besieging Moroccan armed forces.<\/p>\n The Last Days of English Tangier. The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681\u20131683 <\/em>is published online and in print by Cambridge University Press (November 2023). To order in print: administration@royalhistsoc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Series was originally published by the Camden Society (established 1838) until its merger with the Royal Historical Society in 1897. The RHS Archive contains papers relating to the Camden Society, 1838-97<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Royal Historical Society\u2019s Camden Series is one of the most prestigious and important collections of primary source material relating to British History, including the British empire and Britons\u2019 influence overseas. The Society (and its predecessor, the Camden Society) has since 1838 published scholarly editions of sources\u2014making important, previously unpublished, texts available to researchers. 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<\/a>William Upcott (1779\u20131845) rose from humble origins to become a major collector of coins, prints, drawings, and, above all, autographs. His journals, from 1803 to 1809, chronicle his time as a lowly bookseller\u2019s assistant in London and then as an assistant at the London Institution. They offer a detailed, non-elite account of a London life, interspersed with forays into the provinces to visit relatives in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, and to pursue his trade as a cataloguer and organiser of people\u2019s collections, most notably in Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire. His later \u2018Tour of the Peak\u2019 in 1823, evidences his growing expertise and his open acceptance by his fellow enthusiasts.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/04061202\/Screenshot-2025-06-25-at-10.54.16-653x1024-1-191x300.png\")
<\/a>NEW: <\/span>Volume 70:<\/strong> The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler (August 2025).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/28150850\/Screenshot-2025-04-28-at-14.07.56-192x300.png\")
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<\/a>RECENT: <\/span>Volume 68:<\/strong>\u00a0The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville<\/i><\/b>, Lord and Lady Brooke, at Holborn and Warwick, 1640-1649<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, edited by Stewart Beale, Andrew Hopper and Ann Hughes (November 2024).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/24060931\/Screenshot-2024-05-24-at-06.09.01-190x300.png\")
<\/a><\/strong><\/span>Volume 67: Allen Leeper\u2019s Letters Home, 1908\u20131912. <\/i>An Irish-Australian at Edwardian Oxford<\/i><\/a><\/strong>, edited by David Hayton.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/24112613\/Cover-image-for-article-194x300.png\")
<\/a>Governor Percy Kirke\u2019s Out-Letter Book<\/em>, here transcribed verbatim and annotated, covers the terminal decline of English Tangier, ending just before the arrival of Lord Dartmouth\u2019s expedition charged with demolishing the town and evacuating all personnel.<\/p>\n
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