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membership", open to anyone on payment of an annual subscription. Benefits include access to and borrowing rights from the society's library.

History and antecedents

A precursor organisation, the College of Antiquaries, was founded and functioned largely as a debating society until it was forbidden to do so by King James I in 1614.

The first informal meeting of the modern Society of Antiquaries occurred at the Bear Tavern on The Strand

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