Individual SPMA membership is $40 per annum, $20 if over 65 or a full-
time student under 25.

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as mistakes cost a small fortune

Write to Mike Eddy, membership secretary
37 Poets Walk, Walmer, Deal CT14 7QD, England

I will pass your idea on for a 2003 meeting though I am no longer
involved in SPMA accept as an ordinary member. However, fund raising our
end is rather difficult and going to the USA is out of reach of many
poorly paid British archaeologists (especially if they have families)
never mind students.
See you in Quebec City- thanks to a dead relative and having no
children. I expect by 2003 I won't be able to afford London never mind
New England.


In message <[log in to unmask]>, Robert L
Schuyler <[log in to unmask]> writes
>        In spirit I agree with the recent remarks by Alasdair Brooks;
>however, two points need to be made:
>
>        (1) the is already an organized World Archaeological Congress
>and at its recent meeting in Capetown, South Africa historical archaeology
>was well represented. [Side note: Would someone connected with the WAC ask
>them not to overlap their meeting dates with those of SHA. The SHA is older
>and so was in that time slot first.] I see no reason to try to duplicate
>the WAC only for historical archaeolgists.
>
>        (2) the "Historical Archaeological Community" does not have
>money; indeed, the North American branch is the richest as a group. We
>simply can not afford to go to, say, Sydney or Capetown or Lima. A meeting
>in Sydney, for example, would simply be the Australians-New Zealanders with
>a hand full of others.
>
>        I would like to suggest that we try, for the time being, a more
>limited set of steps in internationalizing our discipline. Specifically:
>
>(1) would someone in Europe please put on this list instructions and
>        information on how one can join the Society for Post-Medieval
>        Archaeology (SPMA) with the fees in $$. I do not understand how
>        anyone in the New World, especially the English speaking part of
>        the New World, can be studying the colonial period and not belong
>        to the SPMA and yet many in the States and Canada have yet to join.
>        Their journal, POST-MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY, is excellent.
>
>(2) would someone in Australia (Ian? Susan?) please put on the list the
>        same information on membership for the Australasian Society for
>        Historical Archaeology (ASHA). Although it is a bit more distant,
>        anyone in America studying the 19th and 20th centuries would find
>        both the ASHA journal and Newsletter outstanding.
>
>(3) York
>
>    Do not give up on this idea. If the major problem is the hotel can not
>        you do what they did in London - i.e. put us all in several small
>        hotels near the meeting site (British Museum)? Although such a
>        meeting would be a bit unfair to our West Coast members, and SHA
>        does have a large California contingent, it is in easy reach of
>        most of the membership. Since such a meeting would be a few years
>        off the SHA could also try to raise a special fund to help student
>        members go and perhaps less expensive housing could be found in
>        York.
>
>(4) SHA 2003 New England
>
>    If SHA does go to Rhode Island in 2003 perhaps a theme of "The Atlantic
>        World" would be a good way of getting our European colleagues
>        (the SPMA and others) to come over and join us. Again, perhaps both
>        the SHA and SPMA could try to raise a special fund for the European
>        student members. Others regions (Africa, Asia and Latin America)
>        are a much more difficult problem because of distance and $$$.
>
>
>    Finally, I stand corrected about William Wallace. However, I suspect he
>        did approach York until: (1) he was told there was no hotel that
>        could house Scotland, and (2) he saw Alasdair on the York ramparts
>        with a supply of large rocks. Is Durham in Scotland or England and
>        is it a town, a village or a canal? [Perhaps Matthew Johnson knows.]
>
>    I have been talking too much on HISTARCH and taking up too much
>space, so this is my last comment for some time.
>
>                                Bob Schuyler

Paul Courtney
Leicester UK