biography
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| female
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| (1910–96)
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| biography:
| British archaeologist and writer. She studied at Cambridge, took part in excavations in Britain, France, and Palestine (1931–40), and was principal of the UK National Commision for UNESCO (1943–9) before taking up writing full-time. She married J B Priestley in 1953, and with him wrote Journey Down a Rainbow (1955). Her other works include The World of the Past (1963) and Shell Guide to British Archaeology (1986). |
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