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The Prehistoric Society is an international learned society devoted to the study of the human past from the earliest times until the emergence of written history.Now based at University College London in the United Kingdom, it was founded by V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott and Grahame Clark in 1935BOOK, A “splendid idiosyncrasy”: prehistory at Cambridge 1915-50, Smith, Pamela Jane, 59, 2009, Archaeopress, 978-1-4073-0430-4, but also traces its founding to the earlier Prehistoric Society of East AngliaBOOK, Prehistory at Cambridge and beyond, Grahame Clark, Clark, Grahame, 35, 1989, Cambridge University Press, 978-0-521-35031-0, registration,archive.org/details/prehistoryatcamb0000clar/page/35, which began in 1908.WEB,www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/title.html, About, University College London / The Prehistoric Society, April 18, 2018, The society is a registered charity under English law.{{EW charity|1000567|THE PREHISTORIC SOCIETY}}Membership is by subscription and includes the annual journal, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society,WEB,www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-prehistoric-society, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, Cambridge Core, April 18, 2018, which continues Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia (1911-1934),WEB,www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-prehistoric-society/past-title/proceedings-of-the-prehistoric-society-of-east-anglia/information/404998E0E254C9D61CB1B2D9EE5A0710, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, Cambridge Core, April 18, 2018, and bulletins from the newsletter, PAST, which is published in April, July and November. It also organises regular conferences, lectures and other events and makes grants for archaeological research.

Awards

The Prehistoric Society gives out a number of annual grants and awards,WEB,www.prehistoricsociety.org/grants/grants_awards/, Grants & Awards, The Prehistoric Society, 2019-09-10, including the Baguley Award for the best contribution to that year’s Proceedings. The Baguley Award is named in honour of Rodney M. Baguley and was inaugurated in 1979.WEB,www.prehistoricsociety.org/grants/dr_rm_baguley_and_the_baguley_award/, Dr RM Baguley and the Baguley Award, The Prehistoric Society, 2019-09-10,

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External links

• {{Official websitewww.prehistoricsociety.org/}}

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