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  • The Society has submitted its response to the Stonehenge World Heritage Site Management Plan Consultation; further details can be found on the Public Affairs page
  • The News & Events page has a photograph of the bust of John Hopkins unveiled at the commemoration on 10 October 2008
  • The full lecture programme for the autumn can be found on the Meetings page

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Making History

Exhibition posterRare objects from the collections of the Society of Antiquaries will tour the UK for the first time in the special exhibition, Making History: 300 Years of Antiquaries in Britain, opening on 4 October 2008, at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. For details of venues and dates, see our Making History website, where you can see pictures of the exhibits, explore our interactive timeline of Making History Milestones, and unwrap the 15th-century Roll Chronicle that is one of the major features of the exhibition. 'Making History' is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

New gifts

Lapel badgeThe lapel badge (left) and cufflinks (below) are part of a new range of gifts for Fellows that are being sold in aid of the Library Fund. Cufflinks are available in silver gilt chain link (£21) and gilt T-bar design (£20) or in sterling silver T-bar design (£50); the lapels (£8) in silver gilt. Also available are 2009 pocket diaries (£10). Post and packing is £2 per item in addition Cufflinks(but gifts can be collected from the Society). Orders can be placed by telephone (0207 479 7080) or email (admin @ sal.org.uk).



SALON

Stonehenge April 2008 (2)Read Salon (the Society of Antiquaries of London's Online Newsletter) for the latest heritage news, including the Avebury Reburial Consultation, a new New book on the archaeology of the Black Death, the possible death of the UK's Heritage Protection Bill, Draft Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada, a £2 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant for Forty Hall, ‘Byzantium 330–1453’ at the Royal Academy, the 12,000-year-old female shaman found in a Galilee cave, the ‘world's oldest cremation site’ in Syria, thirteenth-century foundations found at Hampton Court Palace, mice genes and Viking migrations and the armadillo study that won an Ig Nobel award.