OPINION - Good on Just Stop Oil for going after hypocritical Taylor Swift, but do leave Stonehenge alone
Granted, the equinox celebrations at Stonehenge are hokum, a modern take on pre-Christian celebrations of the sun. As Rosemary Hill, author of the best modern book on Stonehenge, points out, no one knows what ceremonies it was built for. “Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge go back at best to the midsummer fairs of the 17th century. Most of the druid orders were founded in the Seventies and Eighties.” Yet she also points out the place is also associated with a tradition of English radicalism dating from the Diggers.
