Greatest Britons: William Stukeley I – GB 081522

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archive.radioalbion.com/GB/gb%20081522.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="1371" src="https://archive.radioalbion.com/GB/gb%20081522.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://gab.com/SvenLongshanks" target="_blank"><strong>Sven Longshanks</strong></a> and <a href="https://www.radioalbion.com/search/label/Max%20Musson?&amp;max-results=5" target="_blank"><strong>Max Musson</strong></a> discuss the archaeologist and historian who popularised Britain’s stone circles and megalithic monuments.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">William Stukeley was the first to really draw the public’s attention to Stonehenge and Avebury, he measured them, drew them and used classical texts to theorise on who built them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For 15 years Stukeley travelled every summer by horseback cataloguing our ancient megaliths and researching the pre-Christian traditions surrounding them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He put forward Phoenician origins for the British and saw them as a chosen race, destined to bring Christianity and civilisation to the world. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He found links between Druidry and many of the world’s ancient religions and saw our stone circles as representative of the natural world and the order of the universe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presented by Sven Longshanks and Max Musson</span></em></p><p><strong><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;">Greatest Britons: William Stukeley I – GB 081522</span></strong></p><br /><audio controls="" preload="none"> <source src="https://archive.radioalbion.com/GB/GB%20081522.mp3" type="audio/mp3"></source> Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio. Here is a <a href="https://ar