Our first Newsletters
As a society, we began to issue newsletters to our members in August 1970, as the society became incorporated. Our first newsletters were simple affairs - typed on a couple of sheets of paper and then duplicated. They were published four times a year and while most covered matters relating to the organisation of the society and its meetings, notices and members' matters, also included a number of excavation reports and articles written by its members relating to research they were doing or had carried out.
We have available online copies of the first six volumes of the SSEA Newsletter. These are in PDF format, and the first four newsletters are set in a single file of 142 pages, whilst volumes 5 and 6 are in a second file of 124 pages. It is therefore possible to see how the Society was formed and shaped in its early days through reading through these files. We hope that this newsletter archive will be of use to scholars and members like, and is therefore freely available for all from clicking on these links.
Volumes 1 to 4 (Note that this is a large 45 MByte file so may take time to download.)
Volumes 5 to 6 (file size 4 MByte).