Pendragon Closure
It is with regret that we have to announce that the Pendragon Society will cease to operate in September 2009, after fifty years of activity in the Arthurian field. We have decided to close Pendragon on our 50th anniversary as we feel we have largely achieved what our founders set out to do at Winchester in 1959. Arthurian studies are now a worldwide interest – it is difficult to remember that when we started on our journey they were little more than stories told to children at their mother's knees - as Jess Foster our founder once wrote.
Arthur is alive and living everywhere now: television, films, books of all kinds and approaches, comics, games, enactment groups, artefacts, all bear witness to this. Our small circulation journal, excellent though it undoubtedly is, is a small fish in an ocean of information and competing interests. With over 3,800 hits on our website, we have an unfortunately diminishing number of subscribers to our journal, which has been our main activity and the reason for our existence for some time.
More positively, later this year we are publishing a 150 page Jubilee Book to commemorate our fifty years as an Arthurian Society. The content of the book will be an anthology of writing from the journal, all decades represented, with an outline chronology of the history of the Society.
For existing members the book will be counted as editions 36/3 and 36/4 against their subscriptions. No new membership subscriptions will now be accepted but copies of the Jubilee book will be available to non-members and may be ordered by contacting [email protected]
Our Secretary will advise you about costs and where to send your cheque, overseas buyers can pay via Paypal if they wish. Please send your inquiry before the end of June so that our print order can be finalised. Some back numbers of the journal are still available for sale at only 50p a copy, if you are interested please ask for a list of these to be attached to our reply to your query.
The basis for the selection will depend on three principles: first, it will be a representative collection of over four decades of contributions; secondly, a balanced reflection of our three strands of study; and finally, feature as wide a range of past contributors as possible. In this way it is hoped the anthology will both entertain and educate in both quality and quantity, as well as providing a true and broad picture of Arthurian Studies -- and its students! -- over half a century.
For existing members, the book will be counted as editions 36/3 and 36/.4 against their subscriptions. No new membership subscriptions will now be accepted but copies of the Jubilee book will be available to non-members and may be ordered via our online payment arrangements - see the Journal section of this website. Back numbers of the journal are still available for sale at only 50p a copy to all , but you will need to order them before this website closes down soon.
Thank you for your interest and support now and in the past.
Our best wishes to you all on your personal quests for the Once and Future King.
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