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Visitors to Avebury: Part 2

This is the second blog post in a series. You can read the first at this link: “Visitors to Avebury and other names”. In this second blog on the visitors to Avebury that are mentioned by Denis Grant King (DGK) in his journals, I’ll be covering the period from 22 August to 1 September 1938. […]

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William Young: at Wiltshire Museum

On 1 June 2024, I was joined by Prue Saunders and Bev Stapleton, research volunteers for the Avebury Papers Project, to discuss how the project is revealing the stories of the people who made Avebury what it is today. The Wiltshire Museum are very generously supporting the project by lending diaries written by William E V […]

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Avebury Papers on Outside the Box podcast

Just in time for Volunteers’ Week, 1-7 June in the UK, the Archives and Records Association (ARA) invited us to take part in their Outside the Box podcast! Ros Cleal (Curator at AKM), Ros Preuss, Bev Stapleton, Prue Saunders (all volunteers with the digitisation project), and I chatted about how the project has been progressing, […]

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Avebury People

Can you help us to identify the people who made the modern Avebury? The Alexander Keiller Museum archive holds hundreds of photographs of people. The photographs span several archaeological campaigns across the decades, including excavations run by Harold St George Gray in Avebury Henge in the 1900-10s, and the Alexander Keiller-led work at Avebury and […]

Project members

The research team comprises researchers from University of Bristol and University of York, in collaboration with The National Trust and the Archaeology Data Service, with support from Historic England, and English Heritage. An expanded group of advisors and experts are all contributing to bringing the Avebury archive into glorious, open-access technicolour. Meet us below, and […]