Hadrian’s Wall, 1850–1950: Frontier and Monument
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https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol21.304Keywords:
Hadrian’s Wall, Roman Empire, frontiers, British Empire, Roman BritainAbstract
This paper discusses the place of Hadrian’s Wall in British intellectual life between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, and charts its development through three key phases: the new season of archaeological and antiquarian research spearheaded by John Collingwood Bruce; the ground-breaking methodological reflections of Francis Haverfield and R. G. Collingwood; and the debates on the Wall as an ancient and modern frontier, from Rudyard Kipling to Winston Churchill and W. H. Auden. The Appendix reproduces an important 1921 paper by R. G. Collingwood that is virtually inaccessible outside the United Kingdom.
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