Stukeley and Stamford, Part I: Cakes and Curiosity: the Sociable Antiquarian, 1710-1737

Key texts by the antiquarian William Stukeley offer fascinating insights into rural England at the time.

William Stukeley's antiquarian interest in his native Lincolnshire has not been widely noted. He is more often associated with his pioneering work on Stonehenge and Avebury, which systematically recorded the sites and their geographical context and began the process of preserving them from destruction. However, he was a keen Lincolnshire man, like his contemporaries Maurice Johnson (the f...