Key Concepts in Public Archaeology by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2023-08-19T12:12:12+00:00

In place of these erroneous ideas, Harvey promises a history that ‘can yet save the British nation from the downfall which awaits those who lose race-consciousness, and who mix their blood with that of lesser breeds’ (Harvey 1940: 5).

Building on Waddell’s ideas, Harvey asserted that the biblical Adam was a real man, a king of the ‘Gothic Sumerians’, and identical with King Arthur, Thor and St Andrew. He draws uncritically on the medieval writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth to argue that the Trojan king Brutus travelled to Britain and gave it its name, and that the Scots were really ‘S’Goths’ (Harvey 1940: 60). His short bibliography includes the works of the proto-Nazi race theorist Hans Günther, and Alfred Watkins, inventor of ley lines. Harvey’s combination of out-dated sources, weak arguments and racist ramblings are not in themselves unusual, but it is remarkable that he went on to become the respected author of several scholarly works on architectural history and conservation. It is very important to note that the line between the mainstream and the lunatic fringe is in no way identical with the lines between amateur and professional or academic and layman.

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