{"id":50072,"date":"2025-11-28T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/?p=50072"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:21:39","slug":"a-collector-collected-latest-volume-published-in-the-camden-series-of-primary-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/a-collector-collected-latest-volume-published-in-the-camden-series-of-primary-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A Collector Collected’: latest volume published in the Society’s Camden series of primary editions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest volume in the Society’s Camden Series of primary editions is A Collector Collected. The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Akan and Curtis Leung.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

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William Upcott (1779\u20131845) rose from humble origins to become a major collector of coins, prints, drawings, and, above all, autographs.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

His later \u2018Tour of the Peak\u2019 in 1823, evidences his growing expertise and his open acceptance by his fellow enthusiasts.<\/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\u00a0<\/i>of William Upcott, 1803-1823<\/i><\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/em>is now available online and in print Cambridge University Press. Fellows and Members of the Society may order print copies at the reduced price of \u00a316 per volume. To order a copy please contact: administration@royalhistsoc.org.org<\/a>, marking your email ‘Camden’.<\/p>\n

To accompany publication of this new volume, Mark, Aysuda and Curtis have also written about the life and work of William Upcott on the Society’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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About the Camden Series<\/span><\/h3>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

The Society publishes new volumes in the\u00a0Camden Series<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0each year.<\/p>\n

Two further volumes were published in 2025:\u00a0The Papers of Admiral George Grey<\/i><\/strong><\/a>, edited by Michael Taylor\u00a0<\/em>(June 2025) and\u00a0The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)<\/i><\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler (August 2025).<\/p>\n

The Royal Historical Society\u2019s\u00a0Camden Series<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is 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.<\/p>\n

The Society (and its predecessor, the Camden Society) has since 1838 published scholarly editions of sources \u2014 making important, previously unpublished, texts available to researchers. Each volume is edited by a specialist historian who provides an expert introduction and commentary.<\/p>\n

Today the Society publishes two new Camden volumes each year in association with\u00a0Cambridge University Press<\/a>. The complete Camden Series now comprises over 390 volumes of primary source material, ranging from the early medieval to late-twentieth century Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest volume in the Society’s Camden Series of primary editions is A Collector Collected. The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Akan and Curtis Leung.   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 …Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20210,"featured_media":50078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-home"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50072"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50084,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50072\/revisions\/50084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}