Julian C. Richards

In 2007 he published Stonehenge: The Story So Far. Other works include Stonehenge: A History in Photographs(2004) and the children's book The Amazing Pop-up Stonehenge (2005).

As of 2005 he has presented six series of Meet the Ancestors, a five-part series Blood of the Vikings in 2002, both for BBC 2. In addition, he has written books to accompany both series. For Radio 4 he has presented eleven series of Mapping the Town.

Meet the Ancestors was commissioned in late 1996. In the spring of 1997 Richards took a year's leave from English Heritage to work on it. He later resigned from his role with English Heritage to work full-time in broadcasting and writing when a second series was commissioned.

With Peter Cox and John Hawkes from Wessex Archaeology, Richards started AC Archaeology in 1991. AC Archaeology is still based in Wiltshire, and now also operates an office in Devon.

In 1980 he joined the new group Wessex Archaeology, based in Salisbury. For almost ten years he ran the Stonehenge Environs Project, a detailed study of Stonehenge and its surrounding landscape.

Richards was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. He studied at Reading University. Between 1975 and 1980, he worked for the Berkshire Archaeological Unit, helping to build the county Sites and Monuments Record. He excavated and carried out a survey of the Berkshire Downs.

Julian C. Richards, FSA (born 1951) is a British television and radio presenter, writer and former professional archaeologist with over 30 years' experience of fieldwork and publication.