Earthing The Dragon - Glastonbury and the 60's

Stout, Adam: - Dr. Adam Stout has been researching and publishing on local history themes since the late 1970s but it was not until 1997 that he went to university to study archaeology. He went on to do a doctorate at the University of Wales Lampeter, which formed the basis of his 'big book', Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley-Hunters and Archaeologists in pre-war Britain, published by Blackwell in 2008. He is very interested in how ideas about the past are constructed, and over the last fifteen years has been researching the history and evolution of 'the idea of Glastonbury' and its relationship to the real place. He lectures regularly and has published widely on this theme, including Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend, which seeks to show how this miraculous tree is the thread that connects the town's medieval and modern mythologies.