Publications

The Society has an active publishing programme, producing both academic and general books, either under our own imprint or in association with other publishers and research organisations.

The following is a complete list of titles in print and forthcoming. Further details of many of these titles can be found on by clicking on the title. Orders should be placed directly with the distributor. Distributors' contact details can be obtained by clicking on the distributor's name.

BOOKS IN PRINT (most recent first)

Visions of Antiquity: The Society of Antiquaries of London 1707-2007

Archaeologia 111, Society of Antiquaries of London 2007
Edited by Susan Pierce, FSA

This fascinating portrait of the Society of Antiquaries of London, founded in 1707, assesses the impact that individual Fellows and the Society as a whole have had in influencing the way we visualise and understand the past. There are, for example, essays on the Society's pioneering role in recording monuments and antiquities for posterity, in establishing the scientific and empirical basis of archaeological studies, in replacing Biblically based timeframes with a clearer understanding of deep time measured in millions of years, in drawing up the first legislation protecting ancient monuments, and in funding and publishing the great excavations of the last one hundred years, from Stonehenge, Maiden Castle, Richborough and Sutton Hoo to Aksum (Ethiopia) and Mons Porphyrites (Egypt). All the papers represent fresh and original scholarship and they tell us much about the Society's achievements (and some of the accompanying conflicts between personalities and ideas) over three hundred years. They are based on diaries, letters, minute books and confidential government papers and on portraits that chart the changing image of the antiquary from a figure of fun to heroic seeker of forgotten people and civilizations. Visions of Antiquity reveals astonishing echoes across time - from the repeated and continuing attempts to record all ancient buildings and monuments to the continuity of the title 'antiquary' to describe scholars who build bridges between different branches of knowledge based on the study of material remains of the past and of a Fellowship whose numbers have included prime ministers, bishops, peers and parliamentarians, as well as radicals and free thinkers, such as William Morris and many of the founders of modern conservation.

ISBN: 978 0 85431 287 0 (hdbk)
£75; 488pp, 116 photographs and line drawings in colour and b&w
Distributor: Oxbow Books

Special Fellows' price: £45 plus p&p (request Fellows' discount when placing your order with Oxbow Books)

Excavations at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, 1990-1999

Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007

The celebrated catalogue of the Society's 'Making History' exhibition is available from Amazon books at £28 (full price £40).

William Morris’s Kelmscott: landscape and history (2007)

Edited by Alan Crossley, FSA, Tom Hassall, FSA, and Peter Salway, FSA
ISBN: 978 1 905119 13 4 (hdbk); 978 1 905119 14 1 (pbk)
£60 (hdbk); £25 (pbk)
Distributor: Windgather Press (Oxbow Books)

Nicopolis ad Istrum III: A late Roman and early Byzantine City: the finds and the biological remains

Society of Antiquaries of London Research Report No. 67 (2007)
Edited by Andrew Poulter, FSA
ISBN: 978 1 84217 182 0
£50
Distributor: Oxbow Books

Roman Mosaics of Britain. Volume II: South-west Britain (2006)

David Neal, FSA, and Stephen Cosh, FSA
ISBN: 0 95479 161 4
£160
Distributor: Oxbow Books

HERALDIC TITLES

DISTRIBUTORS OF THE SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS