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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Granta Books (5 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1862078734
  • ISBN-13: 978-1862078734
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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[It] resurrects an intriguing character from the history of archaeology...[and] recreates a vanished way of looking at history itself.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting biography of a fascinating character, 18 Oct 2008
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Teacher and writer Kitty Hauser has written a fascinating biography of the British archaeologist O. G. S. Crawford (1886-1957). Crawford was one of the pioneers of field archaeology, cycling all over the country to dig into the mounds and ditches of rural England.

During the First World War, he flew missions over the Western front photographing German trenches and gun placements, learning the new skills of reading the earth from above. This led to his later, original work in aerial photography, whose invention was for archaeology what the invention of the telescope was for astronomy.

Crawford's sensitivity made him a good observer and also a good photographer. He took thousands of photographs of everyday things, adverts, horse-drawn carts, graffiti, churches and other buildings, as well as of archaeological sites and finds.

At the Ordnance Survey, he collected archaeological data county by county. He had "a faith in evidence, a faith in consequences, a faith that history had a pattern, and a faith in our ability as camera-wielding human observers to make that pattern out." He played a big role in turning archaeology into a profession.

He became a friend of the Soviet Union, and believed in a future socialist Britain. Like the scientist J. D. Bernal though, he thought that the advance of science, not class struggle, would end capitalism. Lacking any knowledge of Britain's trade unions, and with no concept of workers' nationalism, he took a negative attitude to Britain, hence the title of his unpublished manuscript of the late 1930s, from which Ms Hauser took her title.

Unfortunately, Ms Hauser shows little sense of why so many people respected the Soviet Union. The book would also have benefited if she had a better grasp of archaeology, and if she had included a proper bibliography of Crawford's writings. So this is a good introduction to this intense, awkward and original man, but not a definitive biography.
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4.0 out of 5 stars a good introduction, 10 Nov 2008
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well i must admit i no nothing at all about o.g.s.crawford . i read the review in the sunday paper & thought that i'll give it a go & i was hooked , a fascinating character in a fascinating field of work .i feel kitty hauser documented an important piece of probally forgotten history.
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