19 Facts About Jacquetta Hawkes

Jacquetta Hawkes was a representative for the UK at UNESCO, and was curator of the "People of Britain" pavilion at the Festival of Britain.

Jacquetta Hawkes was co-founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and an active campaigner in the Homosexual Law Reform Society.

Jacquetta Hawkes's father was a cousin of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Jacquetta Hawkes's parents met at Guy's Hospital, where they both worked.

Jacquetta Hawkes graduated with a first-class honours degree from Newnham College.

Jacquetta Hawkes began work in 1941 as Assistant Principal of the Post-War Reconstruction Secretariat.

One of the UK representatives was her future husband, J B Priestley, although Hawkes initially opposed his inclusion.

In 1949 Jacquetta Hawkes left the civil service, in order to work full-time as a writer.

Jacquetta Hawkes was interested in communicating archaeology and art in new ways to new audiences, including through writing creatively and through film.

The vision of the pavilion created by Jacquetta Hawkes showed archaeological sites as if they were being discovered for the first time, proceeding chronologically from a prehistoric burial, to a Bronze Age gold necklace, to a Roman mosaic floor.

Jacquetta and Christopher Hawkes divorced in 1953; she married Priestley the same year.

Priestley's letters in the work were set in a "brash new America in Texas", whilst Jacquetta Hawkes' were written from the perspectives of indigenous societies in New Mexico.

The subject of Jacquetta Hawkes' investigation was The Longstone; her research, which was published in Antiquity, demonstrated that it was the remains of the entrance to a Neolithic long barrow.

Jacquetta Hawkes organised an influential meeting early on at Sandown Pavilion, which promoted CND on the Isle of Wight.

The trust was founded in 1958 to support the charitable work of the HLRS and Jacquetta Hawkes was a trustee along with Anthony Edward Dyson, Kenneth Walker, Andrew Hallidie Smith and Ambrose Appelbe.

Jacquetta Hawkes was responsible for writing the sections on the palaeolithic and neolithic, whereas Woolley's approach renounced the global and he wrote on the Bronze Age in the area that was then termed "the fertile crescent".

Jacquetta Hawkes was one of the archaeologists who first proposed that women were the rulers of the ancient Minoans; the idea had been discussed previously by historians of culture and religion, such as Joseph Campbell, and it had been discussed as part of feminist discourse.

Also in 1968, Jacquetta Hawkes published a paper in Antiquity entitled "The Proper Study of Mankind".

In 1971, Jacquetta Hawkes was elected vice-president of the Council for British Archaeology in recognition of her life's work.