In Praise of Antiquity

I am a long-term admirer of the journal Antiquity. Every couple of months, a new copy appears in my department mailbox and I keenly look at the table of contents for my next reads. I never knew the founder and first editor, O G S Crawford, but count all six subsequent editors as colleagues and friends. I have been on the editorial advisory board for over 30 years, and it has been most rewarding. Glyn Daniel succeeded Crawford as editor in 1958, and remained at the helm for nearly 30 years. I remember well visiting his Cambridge home – the front door embellished with a stag’s head presented by another of his students, the Prince of Wales – to find him and Ruth working on the latest issu