Books by Andy Worthington
“This book is really a social history of maybe the last hundred years of Stonehenge. It focuses particularly on the solstice celebrations. He starts with the Druids, and talks about how people have been attending solstice for probably 100 to 150 years or so, but the main focus is the free festival, which happened in the fields around Stonehenge between 1974 and 1984. It’s fairly famous as one of the free festivals that happened around the country at that time, when there was a huge counterculture movement, and it was tied to music and free love and drugs – a precursor to Glastonbury, in effect. The Pyramid Stage was at Stonehenge Free Festival before it was at Glastonbury. It was part of the circuit of festivals that people used to do over the summer.” Read more...
Susan Greaney, Historian
Interviews where books by Andy Worthington were recommended
The best books on Stonehenge, recommended by Susan Greaney
Stonehenge does not stand alone: it is surrounded by earlier monuments, it was built alongside a settlement and other sites, and it presides over graves and shrines from people who lived centuries and even millennia later. In modern history, it has inspired a Druidry movement, hosted a military airbase, drawn festival crowds and seen police brutality. Susan Greaney pulls out five books that tell the many stories of Stonehenge, the astonishing monument that continues to surprise us with each new excavation.
