My recollection is that it was University of Southampton.
Richard Oliver
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:09:12 +0100 Francis Herbert
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> If she did complete her research perhaps it's become another case of
> 'H[e]idi[ng] her light beneath a bush'? Does anyone (Richard?) remember
> at which HE institution she was studying (sorry - I haven't looked at
> Roger's reference)? I don't subscribe to CCS's e-mailing list so cannot
> pursue it therein.
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> Francis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger Hellyer
> Sent: 05 July 2008 11:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: O.G.S. Crawford (Archaeology Officer of OS): new biography
> (2008)
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> While looking for something else (as usual!), I have just come across
> the reference to Heidi Bennett's thesis, in Sheetlines 42 page 39. I
> have heard no more about it since.
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>
> Roger
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Francis Herbert <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 8:17 PM
>
> Subject: Re: O.G.S. Crawford (Archaeology Officer of OS): new biography
> (2008)
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> Yo (and Richard),
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> Thankyou for your two (quite different!) responses. What, therefore,
> became of 'Heidi something'? Yo's annoyance over captions is as nothing
> compared to my comment in a review, just published in the July 2008
> Bookdealer, of Worth the detour : a history of the guidebook (Sutton
> Publishing, 2007) -
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> A central gathering of high quality black-&-white illustrations - they
> are numbered 1 - 26 only in the 'List of Illustrations' on the
> un-numbered preliminary p.ix - are a surprising disappointment. None
> has a reference to any relevant main text page and vice versa; and some
> persons named in the captions are not even indexed.
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> And what I wrote about the map 'Illustration' (not, one trusts, by a
> trained cartographer and/or BCS member) is best left unrepeated . . .
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>
>
> Francis
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Yolande Hodson
> Sent: 30 June 2008 09:23
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: O.G.S. Crawford (Archaeology Officer of OS): new biography
> (2008)
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> I have this book; it has a very interesting slant on OGS, but it is one
> of the most irritating books I have read. It has some very interesting
> photographs, but instead of there being a caption with every one of them
> - a very simple matter to provide - they are all at the end of the book.
> She acknowledges Peter Chasseaud, and does say that she has consulted
> Roger Hellyer's paper in the Cartographic Journal, among a wide range of
> other sources. Yo Hodson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Francis Herbert <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:54 PM
>
> Subject: O.G.S. Crawford (Archaeology Officer of OS): new biography
> (2008)
>
>
>
> Holding back for nearly a week, expecting a posting from others, I can
> contain myself no longer (as said the leak/leek).
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>
> Last Monday morning (23 June) on BBC Radio 4's morning 'Today' programme
> I heard a short interview with Kitty Hauser, whose new biography of
> O.G.S. Crawford (1886-1957), the Ordnance Survey's Archaeology Officer,
> was mentioned. For those interested it is entitled Bloody Old Britain :
> O.G.S.Crawford and the archaeology of modern life (London : Granta,
> 2008), ISBN 978-1-86207-873-4. The biographer has also published on both
> archaeology and on the British artist Stanley Spencer. I wonder whether
> she consulted (or has credited), amongst other sources, members of the
> Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey maps [arise,
> Messrs Roger Hellyer & Richard Oliver!]?
>
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> Francis Herbert
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Richard Oliver, B.A., D.Phil., F.B.Cart.S.,
Research Fellow in the History of Cartography
School of Geography, Archaeology & Earth Resources
University of Exeter
Exeter, EX4 4RJ
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