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03/01/2011 at 17:39
Mark Patton
Wells’s fascination with archaeology may have begun with his early acquaintance with Sir John Lubbock, a close neighbour in Kent. As a young man, Lubbock played cricket for the team managed by Wells’s father, and also, briefly, courted Wells’s aunt, Margaret.
A student once submitted an essay to me which I was sure was plagiarised. The archaeological content was horribly outdated, but it was written in glorious English prose the like of which I had never seen from an undergraduate. I eventually identified the source as Wells’s History of the World!
03/01/2011 at 18:21
Littlestone
“A student once submitted an essay to me which I was sure was plagiarised. The archaeological content was horribly outdated, but it was written in glorious English prose the like of which I had never seen from an undergraduate. I eventually identified the source as Wells’s History of the World!”
Glorious prose indeed Mark, there are a couple more examples here –
https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/silbury-clumsy-treasure-hunting/
https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/avebury-and-h-g-wells/