ABSTRACT
The publication of the first Journal of the Society, 12 months after its inaugural meeting, is an appropriate moment to chronicle the events leading up to its foundation. The response of eighty interested persons was most encouraging and on this basis it was felt that an inaugural meeting could be held in the Autumn of 1963. This was held at Bristol City Museum under the auspices of the Bristol Archaeological Research Group and through the kindness of Mr. Alan Warhurst, the Museum Director, who provided free facilities and the use of the Museum Lecture Theatre. The main function of the group was to meet at carefully-chosen centres and, by examining the regional products, to gain picture of the ceramic variations. Support gradually increased with a vote of confidence passed at Southwark in the spring of 1966, autumn 1966, at which the founding body, the Post-Medieval Ceramic Research Group was dissolved, and its assets and goodwill transferred to the new Society.
