Meet the Team
Here is the team that put the magazines together. To email us, use first name of the contact below @archaeology.co.uk
Andrew Selkirk
Editor-in-chief
Andrew Selkirk founded Current Archaeology in 1967 with his wife Wendy, and is now Editor-in-Chief. He has always been interested in archaeology: he did his first dig at school at the age of 13, subsequently went up to Oxford, where he read classics and became President of the Oxford University Archaeological Society. Believing that you cannot understand the past unless you first understand the present, he then became a Chartered Accountant, but while serving articles, he edited the student magazine Contra. This gave him a taste for editing magazine, so having qualified, he decided to abandon accountancy and launch a new archaeology magazine, called Current Archaeology. This was a success from the start, and has covered virtually all aspects of British archaeology.
Andrew Selkirk is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and was Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute, and has served on the councils of the Prehistoric Society, and the Roman Society. He has a particular interest in amateur archaeology, and is Chairman of the Council for Independent Archaeology which was established to promote archaeology carried out independently of government. He still hugely enjoys travelling round the country in his camper van, visiting excavations and then writing about them. Increasingly however he niow travels round the world visiting and writing about world excavations.
Nadia Durrani
Editor, Current World Archaeology
Nadia is Editor for Current World Archaeology. After reading Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, she did a PhD on South West Arabian archaeology at the London Institute of Archaeology. She has published a number of books on archaeology, and contributed to a number of archaeological texts, journals, books, and television documentaries.
Lisa Westcott
Editor, Current Archaeology
Lisa comes to CA with a glittering backround in business and marketing. In her previous job, she was Chief Development Officer for the University of Rochester, in New York. Before that she was the Director of Museum Operations at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, which is affiliated to Cornell University, and proudly displays a 14,000 year-old Mastodon. However her real love is archaeology, and she has previously earned her Masters with Distinction at the London Institute of Archaeology.
Neil Faulkner
Features Editor
Neil read political economy at King’s College, Cambridge and was then a teacher for a number of years before turning to archaeology, and taking his doctorate at the Institute of Archaeology, London, with a study of late Roman towns. He is well-known as a tour guide and lecturer, and has directed excavations for the Time Team. However he is best known for his long-running excavations at Sedgeford, in Norfolk. He has written three books, The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain, Apocalypse, the story of the Jewish revolt. and Hidden Treasure for the BBC.
Chris Catling
Contributing Editor
Chris has been digging since he was 16, and is currently co-Director with Tim Darvill of an excavation near Cirencester looking at a linked Neolithic long barrow and causewayed enclosure. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and writes their fortnightly Salon newsletter (http://www.sal.org.uk/salon/), considered compulsory reading by many in the heritage sector for its reporting of the policy issues that impact on archaeology. He is the best-selling author of travel guides to Venice, Florence, Amsterdam, Madeira, London and Crete, and with countless popular articles on British archaeology, he now joins us as contributing editor.
