Kelsey Jackson Williams is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on antiquarianism and learned culture in early modern Scotland, England, and Scandinavia. He was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford (MSt, DPhil) and was a lecturer at Jesus College, University of Oxford, before taking up his British Academy fellowship.

Williams's book is never dry but is eloquent, economical, and highly enjoyable, garnished with incisive aphorisms and-as always with Aubrey-those minute but humanizing details that vivify the whole picture...Such future work will need to draw carefully on Williams's rich scholarship.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Stonehenge and the Druids: Antiquarian Controversy in Restoration England 2: Monumenta Britannica: Ancient Traces in the British Landscape 3: The Old Roman Fashion: Architecture and Its Histories 4: Writing Lives: Aubrey, Anthony Wood, and Antiquarian Biography 5: Ovid in the West Country: The Ancient Origins of Folk Custom 6: A New Philology: Toponyms and Comparative Linguistics in Aubrey's Late Works Conclusion Bibliography Index

Kelsey Jackson Williams is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on antiquarianism and learned culture in early modern Scotland, England, and Scandinavia. He was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford (MSt, DPhil) and was a lecturer at Jesus College, University of Oxford, before taking up his British Academy fellowship.

Williams's book is never dry but is eloquent, economical, and highly enjoyable, garnished with incisive aphorisms and-as always with Aubrey-those minute but humanizing details that vivify the whole picture...Such future work will need to draw carefully on Williams's rich scholarship.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Stonehenge and the Druids: Antiquarian Controversy in Restoration England 2: Monumenta Britannica: Ancient Traces in the British Landscape 3: The Old Roman Fashion: Architecture and Its Histories 4: Writing Lives: Aubrey, Anthony Wood, and Antiquarian Biography 5: Ovid in the West Country: The Ancient Origins of Folk Custom 6: A New Philology: Toponyms and Comparative Linguistics in Aubrey's Late Works Conclusion Bibliography Index

Kelsey Jackson Williams is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on antiquarianism and learned culture in early modern Scotland, England, and Scandinavia. He was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford (MSt, DPhil) and was a lecturer at Jesus College, University of Oxford, before taking up his British Academy fellowship.

Williams's book is never dry but is eloquent, economical, and highly enjoyable, garnished with incisive aphorisms and-as always with Aubrey-those minute but humanizing details that vivify the whole picture...Such future work will need to draw carefully on Williams's rich scholarship.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Stonehenge and the Druids: Antiquarian Controversy in Restoration England 2: Monumenta Britannica: Ancient Traces in the British Landscape 3: The Old Roman Fashion: Architecture and Its Histories 4: Writing Lives: Aubrey, Anthony Wood, and Antiquarian Biography 5: Ovid in the West Country: The Ancient Origins of Folk Custom 6: A New Philology: Toponyms and Comparative Linguistics in Aubrey's Late Works Conclusion Bibliography Index