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Bob Clarke, born in Scarborough in 1964 is an English archaeologist[1] and historian.
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Aviation career [link]
Clarke served a nine year term in the Royal Air Force, leaving in 1991. His stations included Leeming, Lyneham, Ascension Island and St Athan. During that time he worked on Jet Provost, Lockheed Hercules and Panavia Tornado aircraft. From 1990 he worked across Europe as a structural engineer on Airbus A300-600 series and Boeing 747's. Clarke also spent a year at the Dutch aeromanufacturer Fokker as a production engineer on the Fokker F100 medium range airliner. From 1996 until May 2008 Clarke was located at Boscombe Down lecturing Aircraft Structures, Systems and Theory of Flight at FES Training Centre. He is now part of the Curriculum Development team for Ascent Flight Training Ltd, part of UKMFTS.
Written career [link]
In 2005 Clarke authored Four Minute Warning: Britain's Cold War, published by Tempus that same year. This set the scene for further works including Ten Tons for Tempelhof: The Berlin Airlift in May 2007; publishing the memories of many veterans for the first time along with pictures from private collections. In February 2008 The Archaeology of Airfields was published by The History Press (formally Tempus Publishing). Airfields is the first publication to bring together all periods of military aviation, including the Cold War and discuss them utilising a framework of landscape archaeology. In December 2008 The Jet Provost: A Little Plane With a Big History was released by Amberley Publishing, followed in October 2009 by The Illustrated Guide to Armageddon, and in October 2010 by Remember Scarborough again through Amberley. In a departure from his 20th Century research Clarke published Prehistoric Wiltshire: An Illustrated Guide, in collaboration with the Wiltshire Heritage Museum, in September 2011. Aside to the books Clarke has published papers in a number of academic journals on archaeological themes. Subjects range Cold War nuclear bunkers in Wiltshire, Bronze Age metalwork, Roman building techniques, earthworks near Stonehenge and Saxon executions. Clarke has held the position of Honorary Review Editor for the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, the Wiltshire County journal, since 2006.
Archaeological career [link]
Clarke is a visiting tutor in archaeology at the University of Bath, he was educated in archaeology under professor Mick Aston and Julian Richards. Followed by a period at Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford where he obtained his honours degree in post-compulsory education. Clarke held the post of QinetiQ Archaeologist at Boscombe Down between 1996-2008. His research areas cover a number of periods including Prehistoric and Roman Wiltshire and British Military Architecture of the 20th Century (airfields and nuclear), an area where he is considered an authority. Clarke is currently researching the archaeology of the Cold War as part of his PhD with the University of Exeter, focussing on Home Defence Region 7, a Cold War administrative area in the South-West of the United Kingdom. He is credited with the discovery of Broad Town Man, a Saxon execution burial from North Wiltshire. In September 2011 Clarke became President of Royal Wootton Bassett Historical Society.
References [link]
- ^ "Was Stonehenge really built by welshmen?". British Archaeology. September 2004. https://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba78/feat2.shtml. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Bob_Clarke_(historian)
Robert Clarke (disambiguation)
Robert Clarke (1920–2005) was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s.
Robert Clarke may also refer to:
Bob Clarke (illustrator)
Robert J. "Bob" Clarke (January 25, 1926 – March 31, 2013) was an American illustrator whose work appeared in advertisements and MAD Magazine. The label of the Cutty Sark bottle is his creation. Clarke was born in Mamaroneck, New York, United States, on January 25, 1926. He resided in Seaford, Delaware.
Clarke's style in MAD was distinctive, showing a mastery of line and an eye for the humorous side of things. "I was known as the "thing" artist," said Clarke. "Whether it was a telephone or a slot machine or whatever, I would draw the things." MAD editor Al Feldstein called Clarke "a singular valuable asset to MAD ... his arrival upon the scene was a godsend." Feldstein's successor John Ficarra said of Clarke, "He was a great designer, and he also was a terrific mimic of other people’s styles... And if there was a problem you could give it to Bob, and he could usually solve it for you.”
Clarke's earliest professional job was at the age of 17, as an uncredited assistant on the "Ripley's Believe It or Not" comic strip. Ripley traveled the world collecting his fantastic trivia tidbits and sent them back to Clarke who drew them, captioned them and circulated them among the vast number of magazines and newspapers who carried the strip. Years later, he illustrated MAD's occasional "Believe It or Nuts!" parody. After two years with Ripley, Clarke joined the army, where he worked for the European edition of Stars and Stripes and met his wife. Clarke remained with Stars and Stripes after being discharged as a civilian contributor, before eventually returning to America and joining the advertising firm Geyer, Newell, and Ganger. That job would prepare Clarke well for his MAD work: "I learned about typefaces and layouts, how to prepare comps in the styles of many artists and cartoonists." Clarke was among the GNG artists who designed the box for the children's game Candyland.
