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Recent years have seen a number of publications trumpeting the success of voluntary subject associations, including our own Society of Antiquaries of course, and commenting on their contribution to civilized society in the past century and more. While this might bring tears to the eyes of the current Prime Minister, it is to be hoped that future generations of historians will be more analytical in probing exactly how such bodies have contributed to society, and at what real cost. Fellows of this society might indulge in the game of spotting our colleagues past and present among the front rank of another learned society, something that has been common in the past, but might be endangered as the recession bites. William Frend (whose medal is presented by the Society), Binfield, Bolton, Cross and Duffy and others are there, for starters. Stella Fletcher has produced a light and readable introduction to the work of the Ecclesiastical History Society, founded in 1961. She highlights the work of leading academics...