Julian C. Richards
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Julian C. Richards FSA | |
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Born | 1951 (age 72–73) Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
Alma mater | Reading University |
Occupation(s) | British television and radio presenter |
Television | Meet the Ancestors, Blood of the Vikings |
Julian C. Richards,
Early career
Richards was born in
In 1980 he joined the new group Wessex Archaeology, based in Salisbury. For almost ten years he ran the Stonehenge Environs Project, a detailed study of Stonehenge and its surrounding landscape.[1]
With Peter Cox and John Hawkes from Wessex Archaeology, Richards started AC Archaeology in 1991. AC Archaeology is still based in Wiltshire, and now also operates an office in Devon.[2]
After three years Richards left commercial archaeology and joined English Heritage to work on its Monuments Protection Programme (MPP). As part of this work, he inspected sites and prepared reports on the protection of important archaeological sites in Wiltshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Media career
Shortly after joining the MPP, Richards acted as a consultant to a TV programme about the construction of Stonehenge. He later contributed to the programme Meet the Ancestors.
Meet the Ancestors was commissioned in late 1996. In the spring of 1997 Richards took a year's leave from English Heritage to work on it. He later resigned from his role with English Heritage to work full-time in broadcasting and writing when a second series was commissioned.
As of 2005 he has presented six series of Meet the Ancestors, a five-part series
Richards is also responsible for creating two site-interactive games: Hunt the Ancestor (for which he won a British Archaeology award) and Viking Quest, for the BBC History website. He has also been a regular contributor to the BBC History website and magazine.
He also received a British Archaeological Award for the programme Chariot Queen.
In 2007 he published Stonehenge: The Story So Far.[3] Other works include Stonehenge: A History in Photographs[4](2004) and the children's book The Amazing Pop-up Stonehenge[5] (2005).
Richards lives with his family in Shaftesbury, Dorset, where he maintains his special interest in the prehistory of Wessex and particularly Stonehenge.
He is patron of the Friends of Cromford Canal.[6]
References
- ISBN 9781848022096.
- ^ "AC Archaeology". AC Archaeology.
- OCLC 1012892252.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - OCLC 56442020.
- OCLC 57574988.
- ^ Friends of the Cromford Canal Retrieved 30 March 2022
External links
- ARCHAEmedia – Personal site
- Julian Richards on Twitter – Twitter Page
- Transcript of BBC web chat – November 2001
- Transcript of BBC web chat – March 2003
- BBC Radio 4 – Mapping the Town pages
- Profile at UKTV History
- Meet the Author – Video of Julian Richards talking about his book Stonehenge: A History in Photographs (RealPlayer)