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Jacquetta Hawkes OBE FBA (5 August 1910 – 18 March 1996) was an English archaeologist and writer. She was the first woman to study the Archaeology & Anthropology degree course at the University of Cambridge.
A tribute to the archaeologist, writer and poet who became the first woman to study archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge. She excavated prehistoric sites, wrote best-selling books and had passionate affairs with men.
In this piece, the brilliant Dr Amara Thornton shares her reflections on the 1951 work of trowel blazer Jacquetta Hawkes, who played a major role in presenting prehistory and landscape at the Festival of Britain. In doing so, Amara recontextualises an archaeological narrative—A Land—and reveals it as part of a Britain actively reshaped by ...
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Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996) had an immensely rich and varied life, motivated by her passion for the distant past. She was a highly respected archaeologist, a writer of poems, plays and articles, a film-maker and broadcaster and peace campaigner.
May 15, 2012 · So much more than an archaeologist, Jacquetta Hawkes was a fascinating latter-day antiquarian. This is why her academic archaeological colleagues tried so hard to make her marginal. And she was a woman. Hawkes was notorious when I was an undergraduate at Cambridge.
British archaeologist and writer who was one of the foremost popularizers of archaeology. Born Jacquetta Hopkins in Cambridge, England, on August 5, 1910; died on March 18, 1996; daughter of Sir Frederick Hopkins (a Nobel prizewinner); educated at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, and subsequently took part in many archaeological ...
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Oct 26, 2020 · A biography of Jacquetta Hawkes, a pioneering British archaeologist and poet, who wrote Prehistoric Britain and A Land. Learn about her life, achievements, and controversies in this reference work entry.
