South Shields Archaeological and Historical Society Papers
Volume 1, No. 1	1953
Anonymous	The Society’s 1953 excavation: Temple of Mithras at Rudchester
Lectures:
B. Abrahart	Some Tyneside troubles of the late eighteenth century
F. Wade	The Grantham altar case
N. Ridley	The Jacobite Rebellion 1715
J. Grant	Heraldry
R. Bone	Coins of Britain
W. Wright	Social history of Whitburn
L. Evetts	Medieval stained glass
E. Hughes	Admiral Collingwood
I. Richmond	The South Shields Roman site
	Reception to Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Volume 1, No. 2	1954
C. Bosanquet	Presidential Address: The lives o f some North Country Archaeologists
J. Gillam	1954 excavation: The Roman fort at Bewcastle
Lectures:
G. Jobey	The study of military history
J. Gillam	The temple of Mithras at Rudchester
J. Gibson	The Delavals
J. Smith	How to look at buildings
N. Dees	The study of history
A. McLellan	History in water supplies
M. Macadam	Archaeology of Egypt
S. Middlebrook	Tyneside a century ago
R. Crosland	The civilisation of the Hittites in the light of recent excavations
D. Smith	Rome’s southern frontier
H. Simpson	Old Sunderland
Volume 1, No. 3	1955
J. Corbitt	The South Shields Roman gold and silver hoard
N. Mitchelson	A note on monastic patronage with special reference to Rex V. Abbot of St Albans, 1293
Anonymous	A note on Roman belt mountings at South Shields
M. Wheeler	Presidential Address: The three great achievements of Man
Excavations:
B. Whittaker	The Old Hospital Quay at South Shields
G. Jobey	Huckhoe: native site and Gubeon earthworks
Lectures:
B. Abrahart	Joseph Cowen
O. Tomkeieff	Feudalism as a working concern
H. Harbottle	The Lumleys and the Lambtons
S. Greenslade	The Venerable Bede as a scholar
J. Gillam	The 1954 excavations at Bewcastle
E. Birley	Hadrian’s frontier policy
H. Pawson	The history of English farming
H. Robson	Church brasses
I. Richmond	Recent excavations in Scotland
Volume 1, No. 4	1956
Anonymous	The well in the Roman Fort at South Shields
Lectures:
G. Burdon	The Stanwick fortifications
T. Hunter	The birth of coinage
D. Robson	Geology in the field
R. Hill	Islam
T. Atkinson	Norman Northumberland
G. Fenton Davies	An introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls
L. Evetts	Royal armorial bearings in parish churches
D. Smith	Mosaics
J. Gillam	The Bewcastle excavation
Volume 1, No. 5	1957
Anonymous	A sandstone column found on Trow Rocks, South Shields
Anonymous	Alehouses, brewhouses and taverns of Old Shields
J. Booth	[Excavations at] Swainston Village
Lectures:
J. Corbitt	An introduction to the coinage of republican and Imperial Rome
B. Shefton	The Parthenon
B. Beckingsale	Elizabethan letters patent
N. Shaw	The preservation of antiquities
D. Fyson	Northern dragons
P. Corder	Presidential address
R. Cramp	The problem of Anglo-Saxon domestic buildings
C. Daniels	The Roman bath house at Red House Farm near Corbridge
M. Armstrong Davison	Mary, Queen of Scots
Volume 1, No. 6	1958
D. Blair	Robert Blair, M.A., F.S.A.
Lectures:
J. Thornborrow	Castle building and siege-craft in the Middle Ages
D. Smith	Roman settlement at Ghirza, Libya
P. Salway	Aerial photography and its use for archaeological purposes
G. Jobey	A native settlement and hill fort at Huckhoe, Northumberland
J. Mann	The garrison of Hadrian’s Wall
B. Blake	Hadrian’s Wall and the native British
J. Corbitt	The hoard of coins from Coventina’s Well
B. R. Hartley	Recent excavations of Roman pottery kilns at Stibbington in Huntingdonshire
N. McCord	The murder of Nicholas Fairles
Volume 1, No. 7	1959
J. Thornborrow	Report on excavations at Beacon Street, South Shields, 1959
Anonymous	The sandstone statuette from Beacon Street
R. P. Wright	Report on a votive altar found during the excavations at Beacon Street, South Shields, 1959
J. H. Corbitt	Report on the coins from Beacon Street
J. Thornborrow	Miscellaneous finds at Beacon Street
E. Thornborrow	Some late Victorian engraved wine glasses from South Shields district
Lectures:
R. Crossland	Recent views on the origins of the Greeks
J. P. Gillam	Excavations of the Romano-Celtic temple at Shorden Brae
E. Birley	Presidential Address: the local archaeologist
D. Charlesworth	Roman glass
T. Hunter	History of money
C. Fraser	Tyneside in the 1290s
R. Wright	Roman roads in Co. Durham
J. Wait	History of Lloyds
J. Middleton	Julius Agricola
R. Hood Coultard	Some glimpses of South Shields about 100 years ago
H. Clarke	History of dolls
Volume 1, No. 8	1960
J. Thornborrow	Report on the excavations at Beacon Street, South Shields, 1960
F. Staniforth	Presidential address: the key to history
E. Thornborrow	The village of Cleadon in the Middle Ages
R. Hood Coulthard	Further glimpses of South Shields about 100 years ago
Lectures:
J. Gillam	Roman holiday
E. Allan	Springs of industrial enterprise on Tyneside during the 19th century
N. McCord	The Railway King enters Parliament (the Sunderland election of 1845)
C. Huddleston	South Shields in 1851
R. Dawson	Archaeology in China today
J. Finlayson	Changing Tyneside
J. Philipson	Whisky stills in Upper Coquetdale
W. Hughes	Lead mining in Weardale and Allendale
Volume 1, No. 9	1961
J. Thornborrow	Excavations at Pearson Street, South Shields, 1961
E. Thornborrow	Exhibition of local glassware
Anonymous	Roman nails at Inchtuthil
Lectures:
C. Daniels	Pompeii
I. MacIvor	The Havorian occupation of North Britain
E. Hughes	Presidential address: The Great century of the North-east 1750-1850
J. Gillam	Excavations at Haltonchesters, 1960
E. Thornborrow	The Cleadon Decree
W. Maurice Spencer	Some Travellers in North-East England
W. K. Irvine	Pompeii
G. V. Scammell	The Maritime History of the North-East
A. Ross	Native Cults in North Britain
R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford	The Lindisfarne Gospels
C. W. Gibby	Misericords
R. F. Tylecote	Primitive Iron-smelting
Volume 2, No. 1	1964
J. Thornborrow	Excavations on the Lawe, South Shields, 1962
E. W. Todd	The Dead Sea Scrolls
J. G. Finlayson	Pupil Teachers
Lectures:
G. Jobey	Iron Age Homesteads in Northumberland and Durham
J. Gillam	Excavations at Halton Chesters
B. Harbottle	Some Lesser Medieval Military Buildings of Northumberland
H. S. Offler	Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham
D. Charlesworth	Roman Jewellery
G. W. S. Barrow	St. Andrew in Northumberland and Scotland
Wm. Bulmer	Hadrian’s Wall in Models
Volume 2, No. 2	1965
R. Howell	Monopoly in the Tyne Valley: The Case of Thomas Cliffe
J. Chuter Ede	The Value of Archaeology and History in Modern Society
Lectures:
R. T. Anstey	The Early Railways of County Durham
D. J. Smith	(i) The Temple of Nymphs, Carrawburgh
	(ii) The Regina Stone, South Shields
A. Carrick	Tynemouth Election of 1853
W. K. Irvine	With a Camera in Greece
J. Thornborrow	Report on Excavations at the Roman Fort, Arbeia
W. K. Irvine	Old Shields
Cramp, R	Excavations at Monkwearmouth Church
R. Wailes	Industrial Archaeology
J. C. Mann	Northumberland as a Border County
W. K. Irvine	The Stone Age in Malta
Volume 2, No. 3	1966
W. M. Moore	Thomas Masterman Winterbottom
R. Appleby Miller	The Causey Arch and the Ancient Waggon-Way it Served (edited)
M. Binnie	“Greek Religion had no Creed and no Dogma” – Glover
L. Wincote	Some Prehistoric Monuments in Wiltshire
D. Lake	Exploring in Dorset
Lectures:
B. Dobson	The Lost Villages of South Durham
B. W. Beckingsale	The Healing Touch of the English Kings
C. M. Fraser	Social Life in the North East During the 14th Century
L. C. Evetts	The Iconography of Stained Glass Windows
C. M. Daniels	Ostia, The Port of Rome
R. C. Bell	Georgian Life as Depicted on Georgian Copper Coins
Volume 2, No. 4	1968
E. L. Thornborrow	The Rise and Fall of the Glass Industry in South Shields
R. Jackson	Roman London
Lectures:
P. S. Rawson	Indian Art
V. E. Watts	Origin of Durham Place Names
J. Lazenby	Homer and History
W. K. Irvine	Egyptian Tombs
F. Atkinson	A Museum with a Difference
N. McCord	Tyneside in the 19th Century
W. K. Irvine	Petra – the Rose Red City
C. Bonner	St. Augustine of Hippo
B. Shefton	Greek Art
W. Irvine	The Holy Land
W. A. Campbell	Early Chemical Enterprises Around Jarrow Slake
T. S. Hunter	Coins of the Provincial Mints
J. W. Thornborrow	The Castles and Legends of Northumberland and Durham
R. Raper	Some 19th Century Water Colours of Hadrian’s Wall
O. Tomkeieff	Social Consequences of the Norman Conquest
M. Harrison	The 6th Century Church of St. Polyeuktos at Constantinople
Volume 2, No. 5	1970
F. Staniforth	A History of Printing
J. W. Grant	The Shrievalty
R. I. Thornborrow	The Role of Science in Archaeology
D. Breeze	Excavations at South Shields, 1966 and 1967
Lectures 1967:
J. A. Gillam	The 1966 Excavations at South Shields
W. M. Spencer	Looking at Parish Churches
D. S. Reid	Local Records and some of their Uses for the Local Historian
W. Irvine	Ancient Olympia
C. M. Fraser	Effect of Scottish Wars on the North East
N. McCord	The 1815 Seamen’s Strike on Tyne and Wear
J. P. Gillam	The Roman Fort on the Lawe, South Shields
W. K. Irvine	Ancient Crete
Lectures 1968:
R. A. Crossland	Origin and spread of Indo-Europeans
M. H. Armstrong
Davidson	Mary Queen of Scots and her People
A. Murray	The Medici of Florence
C. R. Huddleston	The Vane Tempest Family
A. Wilson	Joseph de Maistre, the Blindfold Prophet
J. W. Thornborrow	Antiquities of Southern France
N. Hampson	The French Revolution
N. McCord	The Government of Tyneside, 1800-1850
W. A. Speck	Dr, Sachevarall
K. Fairless	Mars in Roman Britain
Lectures 1969:
C. M. Daniels	Mithras, the Unconquered God
R. N. Bailey	The Vikings in Northern Britain
T. H. Corfe	The Phoenix Park Murders
W. K. Irvine	Asklepios, God of Healing
B. Whittaker	The Beginning of the Tyne Lifeboat Society
J. P. Gillam	Hadrian’s Wall after Hadrian
D. Dougan	History of Tyne Shipbuilding
W. Irvine	Troy
R. Wood	Life in Early Victorian North-East England
Volume 2, No. 6	1971
I. Ramsey	South Shields: Some Glimpses into the Past
D. T. Lake	Report on the Lanchester Project
Lectures:
D. Charlesworth	A Roman Cemetery at Brougham, Westmorland
Dr. Underdown	Edmund Burke, Statesman or Politician
T. Cairns	The Development of Swords
N. McCord	Labour Troubles in the North-East in 1790
R. Guard	Northumberland at the Turn of the Century
L. Masters	Megalithic Monuments in Brittany and Britain
J. W. Thornborrow	History of South Shields (2 parts)
C. M. Daniels	The Restoration of the Roman Legionary Armour from Corbridge
W. R. Garside	The Durham Miners between the Wars – A Case Study in Regional History
Volume 2, No. 7	1975
J. C. Mann	Religion in Roman Britain
B. Whitaker	The Tyne Life-boat Institution 1789
Lectures 1971:
N. McCord	Presidential Address: The North East from the Air
J. M. Taylor	The Changing Face of Diplomacy
G. Jobey	Two Hill Forts: Masada and Burnswark
W. Spencer	The Geordie Minstrel
B. Whittaker	The Progress of Life-Saving in South Shields
W. K. Irvine	Greek Oracles
W. R. Garside	The Durham Miners Between the Wars
R. A. S. Hennessey	Tyneside – The Birthplace of Electricity
R. Hobley	The Lunt Roman Fort, Coventry
C. Burgess	Recent Excavations of Prehistoric Sites in Northumberland
Lectures 1972:
B. Roberts	Medieval Planned Villages in Co. Durham
A. E. Truckell	“Not Men But Brute Beasts”
T.I.A.G.	Visit & Talk by the Tyneside Industrial Archaeology Group
J. A. Hellen	Northumbrian Wheelhouse and Agricultural Innovations
W. K. Irvine	Tripolitania
D. Charlesworth	Recent Excavations at Housesteads
W. Haldane	Early Iron Workings
Lectures 1973:
J. Campbell	The Manufacture and Sale of Cure-all on Tyneside During the 19th Century
B. Christopher	Underwater Archaeology
F. Clarke	The Social Consequences of the Change-over from Wood to Iron in Shipbuilding
R. Hogg	Popular Education in the North East in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
L. Wincote	The Society’s Film of “Arbeia”
Sq. L. Rush	The Ingenious Beilbys
W. K. Irvine	Pamphylia
R. P. Wright	Inscription on Cleadon Hills
Volume 2, No. 8	1978
B. Whitaker	The Tyne Life-boat Institution 1789 (part 2)
W. K. Irvine	John Williamson (1825-1887)
R. P. Wright	A Latin Inscription on Cleadon Hill, Co. Durham
Lectures 1974:
J. C. Tyson	Northern Brasses
E. Birley	Vindolanda
W. K. Irvine et al.	A lecture to mark the end of the County Borough of South Shields
R. Smith	Current Developments at the Beamish Museum
J. P. Gillam	Arbeia in the History of the Roman Frontier
N. McCord	The Relief of Poverty in Northern Ireland [should be England] in the Early Nineteenth Century
C. M. Daniels	Presidential Address: Roman Syria
K. Harris	Joseph Cowan
Lectures 1975:
T. Curtis	Crime and Society in Seventeenth Century England
S. Macdonald	The Role of George Culley of Fenton in the Development of Northumberland Agriculture
W. Irvine	Ephesus, First and Greatest Metropolis of Asia
S. Linsley	The Development of the Port of Tyne
D. J. Breeze	Recent Work on the Antonine Wall and its Hinterland
F. Staniforth	Roman Morocco
C. M. Daniels	Presidential Address: Rome on the Danube
G. G. Kelvin	Tyneside Postal History
Lectures 1976:
J. Fleming	Archaeology and Historical Society – Railway Architecture
J. Openshaw	The Development of South Shields
J. Snape	Durham City in the Middle Ages
N. McCord	Photographic Evidence of Social History
J. Ward	Torcs and Collars of the British Isles
W. Irvine	The Archaemendids
C. Frazer	Some Notable Tyneside Families
G. D. Robson	Coins in the Collection of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries
W. K. Irvine	Canny Auld Shields
R. B. Harbottle	Recent Excavations at the Black-gate and Blackfriars
Volume 3, No. 1	1984
D. Lake	Tracing my Ancestors or Building a Family Tree
D. Thornborrow	A Study of Pre-Inca and Inca Cultures in Peru and Northern Bolivia
B. A. Etheridge	The Swing Bridge of 1876, Newcastle upon Tyne
Volume 3, No. 2	1988
P. D. A. Harvey	The Boldon Book and North East County Durham in 1183
E. L. Thornborrow	The Salt Industry of South Shields
J. W. Thornborrow	The Building of the Tyne Piers