Posted by Peter Ceresole on June 16, 2014 at 11:10:20 user PeterC.
I've been reading in the London Review of Books a review of 'R.G Collingwood, an Autobiography, and other writings, with essays on Collingwood's life and works.' Edited by David Boucher & Teresa Smith. Oxford.
The review, as usual in the LRB, is very lively and complete, and explains in part, by comparison with John Stuart Mill, why Collingwood had so much happier a childhood, and why (mentioning AR) Lanehead would have been such a welcoming place for a young man.
The book is mainly about Collingwood as a philosopher; how he started very young assisting his father at digs, but 'he was beginning to realise that archeology did not get interesting until it went beyond describing the objects that had been discovered and started asking why they had been made, what purpose they served, and how well they would have worked.'
581 pages, £65, I'm not sure if I will go beyond the review. But interesting on the background to AR's life. And strengthens my feeling that there is a lot of the atmosphere of Lanehead in Beckfoot.