Papers of Glyn Daniel

Archaeologist, writer, broadcaster. Fellow of St John's College 1938-86; Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 1974-81, Emeritus Professor 1981-6; BA 1st Class Hons with Distinction 1935; PhD 1938; MA 1939; LittD 1962; Intelligence Officer, RAF, 1940-45, in charge of Photo Interpretation, India and SE Asia, 1942-5, Wing Comdr, 1943; Steward of St John's College, 1946-55; Editor, Ancient Peoples and Places, 1955-86, and of Antiquity, 1958-86; Director: Anglia Television Ltd, 1959-81, Knight (First Class) of the Dannebrog, 1961; TV Personality of the Year, 1955; Publications include The Megalithic Builders of Western Europe, 1958, The Idea of Prehistory, 1961, The Origins and Growth of Archaeology, 1967, The First Civilisations, 1968, a guide book, The Hungry Archaeologist in France, 1963, and a detective novel The Cambridge Murders, 1945.

Letters, including correspondence with Sir Mortimer Wheeler and correspondence relating to the Piltdown Hoax; diaries and notebooks; photographs; papers relating to novels; articles by and about Daniel; notes relating to the study and teaching of archaeology. Also included is correspondence of Daniel's wife, Ruth.

Divided into subjects and arranged chronologically

Please cite as St John's College Library, Papers of Glyn Daniel