Open AccessYpres, 1917: An Interview with Mortimer Wheeler?
Author(s) -
Kirsten Jarrett,
Stephen Leach
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bulletin of the history of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2047-6930
pISSN - 1062-4740
DOI - 10.5334/bha-603
Subject(s) - romance , history , archaeology , psychology , psychoanalysis
In 1917 the romantic novelist Jeffery Farnol interviewed an anonymous Major in Ypres who was passionate about archaeology. This interview is reprinted with an introduction in which it is argued that the anonymous Major may very well be Mortimer Wheeler