Broadcaster and author Mary-Ann Ochota is a familiar face on TV archaeology programmes, including the cult show Time Team, History Channel’s Ancient Impossible, BBC2’s Britain Afloat, and currently, the Smithsonian Channel hit Mystic Britain, in which she explores strange chapters of British history with co-presenter Clive Anderson.
Mary-Ann’s most recent book, Hidden Histories: A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape, reveals the features you can spot in the countryside around you – from Bronze Age burial mounds to turnpiked toll roads, and the hidden histories of footpaths, pubs and portal dolmens. It was shortlisted for Current Archaeology’s Book of the Year Award, and was selected by historian Tom Holland as a New Statesman Book of the Year. Her new book, Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past, which reveals more than seventy astonishing finds, sites and burials from across the country, is out this Autumn.
Mary-Ann also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines on outdoor adventures, anthropology and archaeology, gives guided walks and performs archaeological storytelling using real artefacts to inspire tales of the ancestors. Mary-Ann is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a hillwalking ambassador for the British Mountaineering Council and she holds an MA from Cambridge University in Archaeology and Anthropology.
Author's Website: https://www.maryannochota.com/
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