File 4 - Correspondence with Sir Mortimer Wheeler

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Daniel/Box 1/4

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GB 275 Daniel/Box 1/4

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Correspondence with Sir Mortimer Wheeler

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  • 1950–1976 (Creation)

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70 items paper

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(1914-1986)

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Fellow of St John's College 1938-86; Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 1974-81, Emeritus Professor 1981-6; BA 1st Class Hons with Distinction 1935; PhD 1938; MA 1939; LittD 1962; Intelligence Officer, RAF, 1940-45, in charge of Photo Interpretation, India and SE Asia, 1942-5, Wing Comdr, 1943; Steward of St John's College, 1946-55; Editor, Ancient Peoples and Places, 1955-86, and of Antiquity, 1958-86; Director: Anglia Television Ltd, 1959-81, Knight (First Class) of the Dannebrog, 1961; TV Personality of the Year, 1955; Publications include The Megalithic Builders of Western Europe, 1958, The Idea of Prehistory, 1961, The Origins and Growth of Archaeology, 1967, The First Civilisations, 1968, a guide book, The Hungry Archaeologist in France, 1963, and a detective novel The Cambridge Murders, 1945.

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Letters between GED and Sir Mortimer Wheeler concerning the study of archaeology, the journal 'Antiquity', the television show 'Animal Vegetable Mineral', amongst others. Also includes an obituary of Wheeler and letters relating to his memorial service.

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Correspondence between Daniel and Wheeler is also held in the Wheeler archive in the Institute of Archaeology Library at University College London.

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