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The Prehistoric Society: From East Anglia to theWorld

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2014

Grahame Clark
Grahame Clark*
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It is doubly appropriate that the Prehistoric Society should celebrate itsjubilee in Norwich. The Society was born in the Castle on 23 February 1935of a parent conceived improbably enough in the Public Library at a meetingheld on 26 October 1908 to inaugurate an East Anglian Society ‘for the studyof all matters appertaining to prehistoric man’. The question I want you toconsider in this address is how the Prehistoric Society of East Angliadeveloped so rapidly to the point at which it achieved national status asThe Prehistoric Society. Let me begin by removing one misapprehension. Myhands are not dripping with East Anglian blood nor have I just wiped themclean. The Prehistoric Society was not the outcome of a revolutionaryputsch. It stemmed from nothing more dramatic than a recognition that thePrehistoric Society had long ceased to be East Anglian. When we met atNorwich Castle for our Annual General Meeting in 1935 and passed theresolution which eliminated the words ‘of East Anglia’ from our title wewere merely recognizing a fact, that we had long ceased to be East Anglianin anything but name. There were no dissentient votes.

The two men who between them set the Prehistoric Society on its feet camefrom different but complementary backgrounds. W. G. Clarke was Norfolk bornand bred and earned his living as a working journalist in Norwich, whilecultivating a wide-ranging interest in natural history and prehistoricarchaeology.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , December 1985 , pp. 1 - 13
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1985

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