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Bloody Old Britain: O.G.S. Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life
Bloody Old Britain OGS Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life Author:Kitty Hauser O.G.S. Crawford thought history held the answers to everything. A field archaeologist, he later became a photographer flying over the Western Front during WWIan experience that made him a pioneer of aerial archaeology. An impassioned Marxist, it seemed to him that contemporary 1930s Britain would soon disappear, conquered by history's inev... more »itable march to world socialism, and he made a photographic study of everyday thingschurches and advertising hoardingsas future evidence of how unenlightened British society had once been. Later there came angry disillusionment and a book, too bitter to be published, called Bloody Old Britain. In recounting Crawford's extraordinary story, Kitty Hauser uses many of his photographs and penetrates neglected but fascinating aspects of British life and belief that have themselves become history.« less