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The Staffordshire Record Society is the record society for
Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
in England. It was originally formed in 1879 as the William Salt Archaeological Society based on the activities and collection of the antiquarian and banker
William Salt William Salt (29 October 1808 – 6 December 1863) was a British banker in London, England, and a genealogist and antiquary in whose memory the William Salt Library in Stafford was founded. Life Salt's father, John Stevenson Salt (High Sh ...
. It changed its name to the Staffordshire Record Society in 1936.


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* 1880 establishments in England Archaeology of England History of Staffordshire Text publication societies {{lit-org-stub