Is it really CA 400? Was it really 56 years ago that we launched a new magazine called Current Archaeology? Were we really rash enough to send it out to 5,000 names that I had collected, offering a subscription of six issues a year for the princely sum of £1? We held our breath – but on the very next day, 28 subscriptions came in. Each had a cheque for £1 – and we faced an immediate problem: they were all made out to ‘Current Archaeology’, and we had not registered the name with the bank. We hurriedly did so, and by the time the second magazine came out we had 1,000 subscriptions. It had worked! We were the proud publishers of an archaeological magazine.
From then on, Wendy and
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