We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, 1707-18: MEETING PLACES AND ORIGIN STORIES.
- Authors
Evans, Dai Morgan
- Abstract
The genesis of this paper lay in the 2007 Tercentenary celebrations of the Society of Antiquaries and the challenge of compiling a tour of the premises used by the Society for its meetings prior to the Society's move into a permanent home at Somerset House in 1780. The first part of the paper deals with the competing claims of the Bear in the Strand and the Young Devil taverns as the location for the foundation meeting of the Society of Antiquaries in 1707. The second part examines the evidence for the precise locations of these two taverns, a subject curiously neglected by antiquaries, together with an attempt to determine the character of the taverns. The paper then considers the demise of the 1707 Society and examines the evidence for the claim that 1707 marks the foundation year of the present Society of Antiquaries. Reference is also made to the other known meeting places of the Society up to 1718.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); ENGLAND; SOCIETY of Antiquaries of London; SOMERSET House (London, England); TAVERNS (Inns); HISTORY
- Publication
Antiquaries Journal, 2009, Vol 89, p323
- ISSN
0003-5815
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003581509990011