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Until the 1950s, most people who called themselves professional archaeologists would probably have said, as Sir Leonard Woolley and Sir Max Mallowan did, that they had blundered into archaeology in the first place. Fate simply turned their steps in that direction and a combination of luck, common sense and working with the right people allowed them to make a reasonable, sometimes a great success of the job. What happened to Dr Ralegh Radford,1 now in his late seventies, is fairly typical of the interwar period.
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This has been equally true at York, where the work during the early 1970s was on a very large scale and several hundred people took part in the excavation each year. For the financing and labout force at York, see P. V. Addyman, ‘Excavations at York’, Antiquaries Journal, vol. LIV, part 2, 1974, pp. 200–201.
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Hudson, K. (1981). Amateurs and Professionals. In: A Social History of Archaeology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04311-8_6
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