Two items of news from the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology:

The 2017 Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture will take place at the Society of Antiquaries of London on Friday 15 December 2017. Book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agm-and-geoff-egan-memorial-lecture-2017-tickets-36142358768

The speaker will be Dr David Higgins of the National Pipe Archive and the University of Liverpool on: 
*Goods for the Colonies: British Tobacco Pipes Made for the Atlantic Trade, c1600–1850*
This lecture will look at how British pipe makers at coastal locations responded to the opportunities offered by the Atlantic trade prior to 1850. In particular it will consider the heelless pipes that were made specifically for the export market during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These are well known as Bristol products, but this paper will show that manufacturers from as far apart as London and Glasgow were also attempting to take a share of the transatlantic trade. The regional and chronological evolution of these forms will be discussed, together with areas for future research. This lecture will provide a reference point for this type of pipe that is of relevance to historical archaeologists from Newfoundland to the Caribbean and beyond.

The lecture will be held in conjunction with SPMA's AGM. The AGM will begin at 5.30pm followed by a wine reception at 6pm, and the lecture will commence at 7pm. Tickets are FREE but limited in number and can be booked through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agm-and-geoff-egan-memorial-lecture-2017-tickets-36142358768 Voluntary donations to SPMA's Community Engagement Fund are very welcome. 

And there is a special offer for SPMA members on a new society-sponsored publication:

*Italy and Britain Between Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds: Leghorn - 'An English Port'*
Edited by Hugo Blake

Livorno was a remarkably successful post-medieval creation, which became the greatest transit port in the Mediterranean and pioneered the concept of the free port in Europe. Built by the Medici Grand Dukes, it prospered as the main commercial base in the Mediterranean for north Atlantic powers. Principal amongst these were the English, whose Royal Navy ensured their commercial success and Britain’s dominance of the Mediterranean – an area which was still the source of luxury produce and goods and provided a populous market for British manufactures, metals, fish, colonial re-exports and shipping.
This volume brings together fourteen papers highlighting the material evidence of Britain’s relationship with Livorno and Tuscany.

This special volume of Archaeologia Postmedievale contains selected papers from the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology’s conference with the Medieval Pottery Research Group and Archaeologia Postmedievale in the Fortezza Vecchia at the Tuscan Port of Livorno in Italy, 25–26 May 2006.

Members of SPMA can buy a copy at a discounted price (plus postage)
Members: £30 Non-members: £38. Plus postage. For further details and to order a copy visit http://www.spma.org.uk/news/archaeologia-postmedievale-special-offer-for-spma-members/

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Emma Dwyer
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