About Alfred Watkins’s Cuttings BookCoverThis is a unique book of press cuttings compiled by Alfred Watkins from 1922 to early 1925.He started it in order to collect reviews of his first ley book Early British Trackways,which was published in March 1922.When these dried up he continued with cuttings on archaeology, place names, and the like,related to his ley theory. There are also a few typed or handwritten items such as letters.The cuttings book was bought at the PBFA Book Fair in Cambridge in February 2011, and is now availablefor viewing on the Web.
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Based on his surveys of the Anglo-Welsh border country, Alfred Watkins believed that in ancient times the country was crisscrossed by a network of straight-line travel routes, with prominent features of the landscape used as navigation points.
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The book can be browsed by moving through thescanned imageswith the“Prev” and “Next” buttons.Links are provided from the scanned images totext versionsof the cuttings, which have been generated byapplying optical character recognition (OCR) software to the images.Stepping through the text versions is also supported.For users on a slow Web connection (e.g. Dial-up) there is a series ofmonochrome images,which are of inferior quality but much quicker to download.Agency slipThe book contains 257 items (including a few duplicates) on 137 pages; there are also ten loose itemsand one tipped in.Some cuttings were supplied by an agency, named on one cutting as Durrant’s of London, a firm that still exists.For this Web version I have added six extra items to fill gaps, e.g. In the series ofletters arising from O.G.S.
Crawford’s articles in the Observer.Fly-leafInstead of getting a new scrapbook for the cuttings, Watkins pasted them into an old notebookwhich (as the fly-leaf shows) his son Allen had used for lecture notes when a student at St John’sCollege, Cambridge. In many of the scanned images, Allen’s notes are visible around the cuttings.The cuttings are not arranged in the book in any logical order.
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