Books by Julian Richards
“It’s a really captivating book, because it shows Stonehenge in all the different phases of restoration. Big phases of restoration took place in the 1920s and then again in the late 1950s, and it’s fascinating to see them moving the stones around with big cranes. Also, the early photographs are really fascinating, with Victorian tourists. And there are some photographs which are quite shocking, with graffiti on the stones, and the stones being used for protest and that kind of thing. There are some from the First World War, showing a military airbase really close to Stonehenge, which is quite amazing to see…” Read more...
Susan Greaney, Historian
Interviews where books by Julian Richards 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.
