Dr Jonathan Last writes: Like many of us, if reaction on Twitter is anything to go by, I was shocked by the revelations in the Daily Telegraph that neo-Nazi groups were holding rallies and rituals at prehistoric sites in the care of the National Trust. Even though ‘Woden’s Folk’ sound like they should be the paramilitary wing of the Woodcraft Folk this is really no laughing matter. Part of the problem must be down to the way British prehistory has been portrayed in the media in recent years, with journalists content to trot out the simplistic interpretations of migrations and ethnicity produced by some genetic studies, mirroring the invasion theories and culture history of the mid-20th century - indeed it is ironic that the Telegraph broke the neo-Nazi story when, as Kenny Brophy has pointed out, their own headline about Late Neolithic feasting at Stonehenge pandered to exactly the same nationalist tropes espoused by these groups. But actually I think there is a bigger and older issue here, reflecting the way that prehistoric monuments and the rural historic environment, with which they are usually associated, have been presented.
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