The Society was founded in 1957 to promote interest in the local history of Huntingdonshire and throughout the year provides a programme of lectures, events, excursions and publications.
2025 Goodliff Award Presentation – Assembly Room, Huntingdon Town Hall – 1st October 2025 at 7:30pm
Julie, Countess of Sandwich presented the Awards at the Goodliff Ceremony
The Awardees, from left to right: Tom Wheeley – Friends of Hinchingbrooke school, Trevor Stone – Brampton Branch of the Royal British Legion, Christopher Vane-Percy – Pepys House Trust, Graham James – Gt Paxton History Society, Liz StHill-Davies – Friends of St Neots Museum, Stuart Orme – Cromwell Museum Trust, Julie Countess of Sandwich – President of the Society, Christine Phillpotts – St Ives Civic Society. For further details see Latest Goodliff Awards page.
After the presentations, the Countess gave a short talk on the progress with revieweing the Montagu Archives and read from a letter between the Earl and his son written just after the great fire at Hinchingbrooke. Following the Countess’s talk, well known local historian and Curator of the Cromwell Museum, Stuart Orme, gave a presentation about the history of Hinchingbrooke House during the troubled time of the English Civil War. Hinchingbrooke House, was the ancestral home of the Montagu family, right up until the family moved to Mapperton House and Hinchingbrooke became the school we know it to be today.
Lectures: The Society organises lectures on a monthly basis throughout the winter months. Lectures are generally linked to Huntingdonshire history with subjects that range from archaeology to aviation.
Each year the Society makes awards to projects supporting the preservation of the history of Huntingdonshire.