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Easter holiday and bank holiday closure The Society’s library and apartments will be closed on Friday 22 April, Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 April, Friday 29 April, Monday 2 May, […]

Salon 44

Weekly meeting report One of the far-reaching consequences of the Reformation was the rejection of liturgical textiles, whose role in the liturgy and in the decoration of English churches was […]

Salon 161

Forthcoming meetings 19 April: Meeting at Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury, hosted by the Kent Archaeological Society on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. Mark Houliston and […]

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Weekly meeting report Discussing just five documents out of the 20,000 or so held in the Berkeley Castle Muniments Room, David Smith, FSA, illustrated the range, depth and breadth of […]

Salon 105

Forthcoming meetings 16 December: A Miscellany of Papers, followed by mulled wine. Our Librarian, Bernard Nurse, FSA, will talk about the Society’s collections digitisation programme and Pamela Tudor-Craig, FSA, will […]

Salon 124

Forthcoming meetings The Society’s first meeting of the autumn season will take place on 6 October 2005, when Dr Kevin Brown will talk about Building with Boldness: a Stonehenge for […]

Salon 191

Queen's Birthday Honours The Society congratulates the following Fellows who featured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List announced on 14 June 2008. Created CBE: Christopher Charles Dyer, FBA, Professor of […]

Salon 90

Weekly meeting report At this week’s meeting, Dr Elizabeth New gave Fellows a detailed account of the sights, sounds and even the smells of the chapel of the Jesus Guild, […]

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Forthcoming meetings 11 January: Industrial archaeology: a future for the evidence, by Sir Neil Cossons, FSA 18 January: Prehistoric coastal activity in the Severn Estuary, by Martin Bell, FSA 25 […]

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Claude Blair (1922—2010) and Lesley Lewis (1909—2010) It is with sorrow that we begin this issue of Salon with the news of the deaths of two of our longest serving […]