When I first met Ronald Hutton, at a conference in Montana ten years ago, he remarked that if you looked at a modern book on druids, what you were likely to find was a number of chapters about ancient druids - about whom we know very little - followed by a perfunctory coda on modern druids, about whom we know a great deal. Wasn't this, he asked, obviously the wrong way round?

LRB 9 July 2009 | PDF Download