Society of Antiquaries of London

"We are one of the UK''s oldest learned societies, having held our inaugural meeting in 1707 and having received our Royal Charter in 1751. Our aims, then as now, are ''the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries''. The Society''s interests embrace all aspects of archaeology, architectural and art history, conservation, heraldry, anthropological, ecclesiastical, documentary, musical and linguistic study – the common link is that all these subjects are based on the study of the material remains of the past."