1970s London Archaeologist Culture

Archaeologists on a tea break in London, 1974. Source: Hobley’s Heroes.

Hobley’s Heroes is an online archive that shows something of life as an archaeologist digging in London in the 1970s and 1980s, including dig site photos and an fanzine-like comic/workplace newsletter. Brian Hobley, Chief Urban Archaeologist, was their boss. It’s a fascinating repository that includes some far out field fashion and a glossary of the digger’s argot (“If in doubt, rip it out” was in use at least as early as 1974).

Hobley’s Heroes, Issue 1. 1975. Source: Hobley’s Heroes

Archaeologist David Fine. Source: Hobley’s Heroes.

 

Archaeologist Jamie Muir. Source: Hobley’s Heroes by John Maloney

 

Barbie Scammell and Paul Herbert. Source: Hobley’s Heroes.

 

1 comment

  1. I have never looked so cool as I did then. The patch I’m wearing over one eye was from site accident or other.

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