Posted by Robert Hill on May 09, 2003 at 20:51:54 from 195.92.168.163 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot Bells, and Dick School posted by andy bolger on May 09, 2003 at 19:31:06:
Isn't it said in one of the books that Prof. Callum was attending a
conference about Hadrian's Wall?
But maybe archaeologists were generalists in those days and could easily
cover Egypt and Roman Britain.
Nitpicky notes: (1) I think it actually says "the Roman Wall".
I believe it wasn't often called Hadrian's Wall in those days,
owing to doubt about whether Hadrian built it.
(Well, obviously he didn't do it personally, but ...)
(2) I think he's just Mr Callum in the earlier books.
It may only be PM in which he's a Prof.
Even greater nitpicking:
My first job (1975) was as a research assistant at University College London.
They were always careful to spell the name without a comma,
but for all I know that may have been a recently introduced affectation.