| AdminHistory | Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996) was an archaeologist. Born Jessie Jacquetta Hopkins, the daughter of Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, she married first Christopher Hawkes, then an Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, in 1933. From 1953, she was married to J B Priestley. She is perhaps best known generally for her book 'A Land' (1951). She was a prolific writer on subjects quite removed from her principal field. She was above all interested in discovering the lives of the peoples revealed by scientific excavations. With her first husband, Christopher Hawkes, she co-authored 'Prehistoric Britain' (1943) and with J B Priestley she wrote 'Dragon's Mouth' (1952) and 'Journey Down a Rainbow' (1955). Her other works include 'The World of the Past' (1963), 'Prehistory (History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development, Volume 1 Part 1)' (1963) prepared under the auspices of UNESCO, and 'The Shell Guide to British Archaeology' (1986).
In 1982 Hawkes produced a biography of her close friend and fellow archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler, entitled 'Mortimer Wheeler-Adventurer in Archaeology'. |