Colonial Intrigues and My Dismissal as Director of Antiquities

A Memoir of Cyprus in the 1930s

By John R. Hilton

Edited by Nicholas Stanley-Price

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In 1934, John Hilton became the first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus, urgently saving ancient monuments. Despite challenges and dismissal, public outcry extended his tenure. His memoir, written 40 years later, humorously recounts his experiences and insights into 1930s colonial Cyprus.

Contents
About the Author

Foreword

Editor’s preface

A chronology of principal events, 1932–1936

Dramatis Personae

Introduction: The Hiltons and colonial society in 1930s Cyprus

Author’s Preface: A Camel-Load of Woad

Chapter 1. Seduction

Chapter 2. Selection and Distraction

Chapter 3. Induction

Chapter 4. Action and Reaction

Chapter 5. Reproduction and Ruction

Chapter 6. Rejection and Contradiction

Chapter 7. Deduction and Concoction

Chapter 8. Fiction

Chapter 9. Valediction and Reflection

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Nicholas Stanley-Price spent ten years as an archaeologist in Cyprus and the Middle East before concentrating on international heritage conservation, employed by the Getty Conservation Institute in California and by the intergovernmental body ICCROM in Rome as its Director-General. He has promoted the conservation and management of archaeological sites, as founding editor of the journal of that name, now published by Taylor & Francis, and by launching a new M.A. at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has published extensively on conservation principles, site conservation and antiquities management.

Publishing Scholarly Archaeology since 1997

Publishing Scholarly Archaeology since 1997

Colonial Intrigues and My Dismissal as Director of Antiquities

A Memoir of Cyprus in the 1930s

Contents

About the Author