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Anyone for Writing? 1054 SPECIAL SECTION war-torn country like Iraq, is part of the world’s don, and a delightful travelling companion, when heritage, then some mechanism ought to be I went as a ‘paying spouse’ on the annual visita- found whereby the world can help with finances. tions of the Ancient Monuments Board in Scot- How can we say to the government of Bolivia land, of which Wilkes was a Member. that they ought to earmark some resources for I was told by Colonel Gaddaffi and his minis- museums, when there are so many other des- ters that Libya had neither the need nor the de- perate needs? sire to open up the largest single coastline in the These reflections are penned amidst what Mediterranean to mass tourism. They were una- little remains of ancient Carthage. Scipio shamedly interested in specialist tourism. I sus- Africanus’ ‘Carthago delenda est’ and many pect that the greatest challenge in world successors certainly did their best, and all too archaeology may lie in co-operation with the Liby- effectively. But in Tunis there is one of the great- ans, in the restoration of their many world-class est collections of the world - the mosaics in sites. To find oneself almost alone in Leptis Magna, the Bardo museum. My desire to come to Tu- with noise emanating mainly from the resident nisia was ignited by two visits, the first in 1990, bird population was selfishly wonderful. and the second in March 2001, when I led the Whither archaeology? first Inter-Parliamentary Union visit to Sabatha, As a discipline, archaeology lies between the in Libya, and what is surely the greatest of all arts and the sciences, and is perhaps the best sites of Ancient Rome -Leptis Magna -a view discipline of all to engender flexibility of the shared by John Wilkes, Professor of the History mind. What could be more valuable in the 21st of the Roman Provinces in the University of Lon- century? Anyone for writing? PETERKEMMIS BETTY * ‘The universal interest in the past is perfectly natu- cific, since I have been involved, one way or ral. It is the interest in life itself. There was a time another, in publishing archaeological books for when archaeology was voted a dull subject, fit only 30 years, I shall be confining myself to my own for dry-as-dusts; yet it was not the subject that was direct experience of the opportunities and dif- dull, but its exponents. Those days are over.’ ficulties involved. Thus O.G.S. Crawford in his Editorial Notes It is only in the last 15 years of this period for the very first number of ANTIQUITY75 years that I have become increasingly convinced of ago. However admirable, this missionary zeal the need for more widely accessible books - is far from universal among present-day archae- and correspondingly concerned about the dif- ologists; moreover, the present-day funding of ficulty in commissioning appropriate authors. archaeology, though lavish compared with So what follows is, from one perspective, a shame- Crawford’s day, is in danger of quenching the less appeal to archaeologistswho share Crawford’s missionary flame even when it exists. Crawford vision to make my life as a publisher easier. How- was, of course, thinking primarily of journal ever, at the same time I do believe that a response articles as the medium for accessible commu- to this appeal would be in the interest of British nication; to these could be added not only books archaeology as a whole. and newspapers but, today, TV and the internet. To explain this self-serving assertion I fear I However, it is the success or otherwise of the need to indulge in a little ancient history. De- book in making archaeology exciting on which spite reading Classics at Cambridge my inter- I wish to concentrate, as it is only through book est in archaeology did not begin until some 10 publishing that I have had serious contact with years later. At that time I was employed as an the world of archaeology. To be even more spe- editor at B.T. Batsford, largely working on a * Tempus Publishing Group Ltd, 30 Lillian Road, London SW13 SJC, England. [email protected] ANTIQUITY 76 (2002): 1054-8 ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE 1055 series of British Battles. The (chronologically) or archaeology anoraks. A wider range of book- first volume in this series, The Roman Con- shops was prepared to stock books in the se- quest of Britain, was authored by two academ- ries, with the result that (excluding a handful ics from the University of Birmingham - one of high-selling textbooks like Kevin Greene’s of them Graham Webster. A few years later Archaeology: an introduction)the English Her- Graham, like Crawford a natural enthusiast, itage books sold twice as many copies per title somehow managed to convince me that there as the rest of the list. Accordingly this successful was room in the market for another archaeol- experiment was consolidated in 1993 by a simi- ogy publisher. lar arrangement (which still continues) with As a result Graham was appointed as our Historic Scotland under the editorship of their Archaeology Adviser, with a brief to locate Chief Archaeologist, David Breeze. authors who could produce works of major Such was my experience of archaeology - importance, whether monographs or textbooks, the publication of getting on for 200 titles of a and by the mid 1970s we were publishing such varied nature from a variety of authors -when, titles as Roman towns in Britain and Techniques in 1996, just as I was finally severing contacts of archaeological excavation by Philip Barker. with Batsford following a disastrous takeover, Additionally we were soon publishing titles I received a call from Alan Sutton, who was aimed primarily at the extramural student or building up a new company (then called amateur, such as Graham Webster’s own book Chalford) after leaving the company he had Boudica. In 1990 Graham Webster was suc- founded 20 years earlier. At the time the com- ceeded by Professor Michael Fulford and by pany was confined to photographic local his- the time I left Batsford some five years later tory but Alan was anxious to diversify into (when this list was sold to Routledge) about general history and archaeology. 100 titles had been published. The invitation could not have come at a more The raison d’&tre of these books was first opportune moment. Not only had the previous and foremost to give a platform to professional 25 years given me a wide range of archaeologi- archaeologists, in support of their teaching ac- cal contacts but the ever-increasing size of pub- tivities. However, in 1988 the perspective of lishing companies, and their concentration on the list was to change significantly. Stephen the US market, provided a great opportunity Johnson, then the Publisher at English Herit- for a smaller publisher who could make money age, was searching for a commercial partner to from lower print runs needed for titles aimed produce a series of more popular archaeology primarily, or even exclusively, at the British titles (having failed to persuade his own or- market; moreover, with the near-demise of ganization to rise to the challenge). The idea Batsford, there was no publisher who was sig- was that authors would incorporate the latest nificantly or systematically publishing on as- research, much of it funded by English Herit- pects of British archaeology. age, but would write for a market that would I was eager therefore to commission books encompass a typical English Heritage or Na- which would present cutting-edge research or tional Trust member. much-needed syntheses for a wide readership. English Heritage committed themselves to The underlying aim was to achieve the impos- an initial six titles and the following year we sible - of producing books that would appeal published Stephen Johnson’s Hadrian’s Wall to amateurs but would contain enough meat and Aveburyby Caroline Malone. I don’t think for students and professionals. The result was English Heritage ever formally approved an 14 books published in the second half of 1998 extension of the series, but Stephen and I in- under the new imprint of ‘Tempus’, beginning terpreted their commitment as ‘six titles at a with Wroxeterby Roger White & Philip Barker time’ and over the next 10 years published some and Hadrian’s Wall from Guy de la BBdoyBre. 50 titles. Most of the books were written by Later in that year I had the good fortune to top experts (who could have been producing publish three exceptionally brilliant books - specialist reports or student texts) but the mix Ian Stead’s The Salisbury Hoard (which went of subject matter, the clarity of writing and (no on to win first prize in the British Archaeo- doubt) the English Heritage logo enabled us to logical Awards), The Land of Lettice Sweetapple reach readers who were not academics, students by Peter Fowler & Ian Blackwell and Charles 1056 SPECIAL SECTION Thomas’ Christian Celts: messages 6. images. to write. Given the range of professional (not Today, some four years later, we are publish- to mention amateur) archaeological activity and ing 45 archaeology titles a year. the number of potential authors available, the What I have learned over these four years, outsider might imagine that archaeologists even more dramatically than at Batsford, is that would be clamouring to write and publishers the wider interest in archaeology is stimulated would have the luxury of selecting the very best by two factors: the first is television, the sec- proposals from a wide field. ond is local involvement. As a publisher, what However, most readers of ANTIQUITY will one can do about the first insight is limited: a instantly be aware of the other pressures on book rarely reaches as wide an audience as does present-day academics.
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