Current Archaeology: Editors
Andrew Selkirk, MA, FCA, FSA
Wendy Selkirk, BA
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Since its foundation in 1967, Current Archaeology has been edited
by Andrew and Wendy Selkirk
Wendy Selkirk is the publishing half of the partnership. She read history at Exeter University and then went into to Personnel Management. She is not, she
says, an archaeologist but this has the great advantage that she
is able to ensure that the whole magazine is comprehensible to
the layman. She is responsible for the much-praised layout of
the magazine, and she also manages the business side.
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Current Archaeology is edited from Nassington Road, in the leafy suburb of Hampstead, North London. Hampstead Heath is just down the end of the road: the nearest tube station is Belsize Park. |
Andrew Selkirk is responsible for editing the magazine. He has always been interested in archaeology: he did his first dig at school at the age of 13, subsequently went up to Oxford,
where he read classics and became President of the Oxford University
Archaeological Society.
Believing that you cannot understand the past unless you first understand the present, he then became a Chartered Accountant, but while serving articles,
he edited the student magazine Contra. This gave him a taste
for editing magazines, so having qualified, he decided to abandon
accountancy and launch a new archaeology magazine, called Current
Archaeology. This was a success from the start, and has covered
virtually all aspects of British archaeology.
Since the magazine went into its new full-colour format, the circulation
has been rising rapidly, and it has doubled in the past 5 years
to reach 18,000.
Andrew Selkirk is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute, and
has served on the councils of the Prehistoric Society, and the Roman
Society.
He has one of the co-founders of the British Archaeological Awards,
and is chairman of the judges of the Archaeological Book of the
Year award.
He has a particular interest in amateur archaeology, and is Chairman of the Council for Independent Archaeology which was established to promote archaeology carried out independently of government.
He still hugely enjoys travelling round the country in his camper
van, visiting excavations and then writing about them.
They have three children, the youngest of whom, Robert, has joined them as Publisher and business consultant.
 
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