Sir Mortimer Wheeler at Cardiff University
26 March 2015Dubbed ‘the most famous British archaeologist of the twentieth century’, Sir Mortimer Wheeler was the first lecturer in the archaeological department at University College Cardiff (now Cardiff University).[1] He held a joint position with the National Museum of Wales as Keeper of the Archaeological Department.
He became Director of the National Museum of Wales before leaving to become Director of the London Museum. He later became Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and the founder and Honorary Director of the Institute of Archaeology in London (now UCL Institute of Archaeology). He also published widely on archaeology and his extensive television work served to popularise archaeological studies.
We have his original application form and accompanying references in the Institutional Archive (ref.: UCC/R/F/126). These documents date from 1920 and we’d like to “SHARE” them with you…!
[1]Moshenska, Gabriel; Schadla-Hall, Tim (2011). “Mortimer Wheeler’s Theatre of the Past”. Public Archaeology (Maney) 10 (1): 46–55 (46).
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