ANTIQUARIANISM AND HISTORY

Ainsley Aikens06 Aug, 2019Education

According to the history written in Antiquarian Archaeology Book, Earle's caricature is cruelly witty but offers little insight into what antiquarians have done in the past or what they do now. Given the negative relations of the word 'antiquarian', it is hardly astonishing that few people today define themselves primarily as such. There are plentiful regional and local societies which bear the word 'antiquarian' in their titles, such as the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, the Halifax Antiquarian Society, the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society.