It is housed within Cambridge Central Library It collects printed, published and illustrative material relating to the modern county of Cambridgeshire, which includes the former counties of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely.
Founded as part of the Free Library in 1855,[1] it is the county's reference Local Studies collection.
The Cambridgeshire Collection is a reference collection of mainly secondary (printed and published) material; primary documents (original, manuscript) being held in the County Archives at Ely and Huntingdon.
[3] The Collection is of use to family, local and social historians.
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