15th July 2008, 02:35 PM
Unit of 1 said:
"In the main they got into the charity set up early (in 1980s) which I suggest was a manoeuvre mainly intended to contain the liabilities of permanent civil service employment, such as pensions, to a few top employees. Camarc (RIP) presumably wishes that it had applied to the charity commission ages ago."
Not true. These units were all set up in the seventies and being a charity was the obvious move rather than a company in the climate of the times. Unitof1 and others clearly were not involved in the real Rescue era when it was predicted that by the year 2000 the only archaeological sites left would be those owned by the National Trust. Rescue's logo was Stonehenge in a bucket of a bulldozer.
There are many things that can be said about the 1970s and the establishment of the unit system but the one thing that cannot be criticised is the motives of people - it was simply to rescue archaeology before it was too late.
The context of the times has to be remembered 50% of the population were in state employment. Even Thomas Cooks was a government owned company. More details can be found in my 2006 BAJR paper.
Dr Peter Wardle
"In the main they got into the charity set up early (in 1980s) which I suggest was a manoeuvre mainly intended to contain the liabilities of permanent civil service employment, such as pensions, to a few top employees. Camarc (RIP) presumably wishes that it had applied to the charity commission ages ago."
Not true. These units were all set up in the seventies and being a charity was the obvious move rather than a company in the climate of the times. Unitof1 and others clearly were not involved in the real Rescue era when it was predicted that by the year 2000 the only archaeological sites left would be those owned by the National Trust. Rescue's logo was Stonehenge in a bucket of a bulldozer.
There are many things that can be said about the 1970s and the establishment of the unit system but the one thing that cannot be criticised is the motives of people - it was simply to rescue archaeology before it was too late.
The context of the times has to be remembered 50% of the population were in state employment. Even Thomas Cooks was a government owned company. More details can be found in my 2006 BAJR paper.
Dr Peter Wardle