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'''Geoffrey Thomas Leslie Ashe''' {{
== Early life ==▼
▲'''Geoffrey Thomas Leslie Ashe''' {{small|[[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]]}} (29 March 1923-30 Jan 2022) was a British cultural historian and lecturer, known for his focus on [[King Arthur]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lacy|first1=Norris J.|title=Eminent Arthurian: Geoffrey Ashe|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/arthuriana/v023/23.4.lacy.pdf|accessdate=17 April 2015}}</ref>
Born in London, Ashe was an only child who excelled all his classmates in academics. Periods of poor health meant that he had ample opportunity to read broadly, or be read to. Through his parents, he developed a life-long enjoyment of Gilbert & Sullivan's operas and Conan Doyles' Sherlock Holmes canon. His mother read some of Conan Doyle's stories to him from the ''Strand'' when they were first published; his father took him to see Gilbert & Sullivan performances by some of the cast who had worked with Gilbert himself.
Ashe's father was general manager of Poly Tours, later Lunn-Poly, and travelled to Europe and the British Isles frequently with his parents to the hotels used by the agency, sometimes to correct problems, sometimes to establish business contacts. His favourite childhood memories were of summers spent in the West Highlands of Scotland, at the Highland Hotel in Fort William.
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==Work==
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Ashe, co-founder (with [[Ralegh Radford|C. A. Ralegh Radford]]) and Secretary of the Camelot Research Committee has also helped demonstrate, through a dig directed by [[Leslie Alcock]] in 1966–70, that [[Cadbury Castle, Somerset|Cadbury Castle]], identified as [[Camelot]] by the 16th-century [[antiquary]] [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]], was actually refortified in the latter part of the fifth century, in works as yet unparalleled elsewhere in Britain at the time. Ashe's point is that when Leland picked out this hill as Camelot, he picked what seems to be the most plausible candidate; yet even an archaeologist could not have guessed that the fifth-century fortification was embedded in the earthworks, just by looking without digging.<ref name="britannia"/>
"I would say there must have been a tradition about the hill and its powerful overlord, handed down from the [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]]", Ashe has said, and added "In the film of the musical [[Camelot (film)|Camelot]], you have a brief glimpse of a map of Britain, and Camelot is in Somerset. It's there because I told [[Warner Brothers]] to put it there. That is my one contribution to Hollywood."<ref name="britannia"/>
== Honours ==
== Personal life ==
He died in [[Glastonbury]] on 30 January 2022, at the age of 98.<ref>{{cite web |title=We'll meet again in Avalon, Geoffrey Ashe |url=https://www.seanpoage.com/2022/01/31/well-meet-again-in-avalon-geoffrey-ashe/ |website=Sean Poage |access-date=2 February 2022 |date=31 January 2022}}</ref>
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* ''All About King Arthur'' (1969)
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* ''The Art of Writing Made Simple (1972)
* ''The Finger and the Moon'' (1973)
* ''Do What You Will: A History of Anti-Morality'' (1974)
* ''The Virgin'' (1976)
* ''The Ancient Wisdom'' (1977)
* ''Miracles'' (1978)
*{{cite book|last=Ashe|first=Geoffrey|title=The Discovery of King Arthur|year=1985}}▼
* ''Gandhi: A Biography'' (1980)
* ''A Guidebook to Arthurian Britain'' (1980)
* ''The Glastonbury Tor Maze'' (1982)
*{{cite book|last=Ashe|first=Geoffrey|title=King Arthur, the Dream of a Golden Age |year=1990}}▼
* ''Kings and Queens of Early Britain'' (1982)
*{{cite book|last=Ashe|first=Geoffrey|title=Dawn Behind the Dawn: A Search for the Earthly Paradise|year=1991}}▼
* ''Avalonian Quest'' (1982)
* ''The Landscape of King Arthur'' (1987)
* ''The Arthurian Handbook'' (1988) (with [[Norris J. Lacy]])
*{{cite book|last=Ashe|first=Geoffrey|title=The Book of Prophecy: From Ancient Greece to the Modern Day|year=2003}}▼
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* ''Mythology of the British Isles'' (1990)
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* ''Atlantis: Lost Lands, Ancient Wisdom'' (1992)
* ''Discovering the Goddess: A Personal Testimony'' (1994)
*{{cite book|last=Ashe|first=Geoffrey|title=Eden in the Altai: The Prehistoric Golden Age and the Mythic Origins of Humanity|year=2018}}▼
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* ''The Hell-Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality'' (2000)
* ''Encyclopedia of Prophecy'' (2001)
* ''Merlin'' (2001)
* ''Labyrinths and Mazes'' (2003)
* ''The Offbeat Radicals: The British Tradition of Alternative Dissent'' (2007)
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