Joan Eileen Annie Liversidge FSA (May 1914 - 16 January 1984) was an English archaeologist who specialised in

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Biography

Liversidge was an Honorary Keeper of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the

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, a research fellow at

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, and a faculty lecturer at Cambridge. She was a Founding Fellow of

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. Her work was focussed on artefactual and artistic evidence. Liversidge took a social history approach to Roman Britain which was undervalued in subsequent decades. As with the undervaluing of her social history approach, her findings that several Roman villas in Britain (

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, Atworth, East Grinstead, Stroud, and Titsey) were of more than one storey in height were overshadowed by assertions of R.G.Collingwood and Ian Richmond that such structures had only one story, but re-evaluations in 1982 found that such buildings could be of greater height. She was secretary of the

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for 25 years. She was elected a fellow of the

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in 1951."Miss Joan Liversidge", ''The Times'', 24 February 1984, p. 14.

Selected publications

*''Furniture in Roman Britain''.

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, London, 1955. *''Britain in the Roman Empire''. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. *''Roman Gaul: Illustrated from contemporary sources''. Longman, London, 1974. *''Everyday life in the Roman Empire''. Batsford, 1976. *''Roman provincial wall painting of the Western Empire''.

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, 1982. (Editor)

References

1914 births 1984 deaths British women archaeologists English non-fiction writers Archaeologists from London Fellows of Newnham College, Cambridge Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London British women historians {{archaeologist-stub

Biography

Selected publications

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