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Henry Lincoln

Kickstarter: The Henry Lincoln Archive Project

When Dan Brown tasted mega-success with his book The Da Vinci Code (selling upwards of 80 million copies), he did so on the back of seminal research by the team of Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, with their book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. But at that time, Brown was just the most recent of a number of authors and artists who had used this book – based on original research by Henry Lincoln in the 1960s – as their inspiration. The entire topic of the Priory of Sion and the mystery of Rennes le Chateau would likely have never ‘caught fire’ in the English language speaking world without the groundwork laid by Lincoln.

But with Henry now in his 80s, plans are now being made to archive and preserve the original research and documentation related to this influential body of work. For those who would like to assist in this goal, an IndieGoGo fund-raising project is now underway to help set this archive up:

From its inception, one man has been intimately involved in the extraordinary research which has led to changes in the world’s thinking about Christianity, the role of women and … even more importantly … the realization that we have much still to learn about the beliefs, the knowledge and the skills of our remote ancestors.

Now in his ninth decade, the necessity to preserve Henry Lincoln’s archive has become a priority.

Documents, photographs, recordings, books, films, diagrams, scripts, maps and manuscripts demonstrate the growth of the hypotheses and the many detours and stumbling blocks, which have led to new ideas and new attitudes. Future scholars will find that the contents of this archive can help in the understanding of many of the changes in society, which came in the second half of the twentieth century.

Whether Henry Lincoln’s arguments are accepted or not, their effect has been undeniable.

While it would be nice to see someone like Dan Brown chip in for such a worthwhile project, I’m sure there’s enough interest in the wider community to get this project to it’s goal.

Link: The Henry Lincoln Archive Project on IndieGoGo

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  1. Dan Brown to Buy & Preserve Henry Lincoln Archive?
    Greg in Dan Brown’s defence there’re a lot of people out there like Michael Baigent and the estate of the late Richard Leigh who might claim any contribution he made was some sort of admission of plagiarism.

    Setting aside the likelihood a lot of those researchers probably got a lot more interest in their work than they’d ever previously known thanks to Dan Brown it remains the case the one person who steadfastly refused to be a party to any legal shenanigans was Henry Lincoln.

    And the joke of that was it was Henry Lincoln’s charming erudite avuncular archetypal English eccentric presence in the documentary series which electrified people like myself into buying Holy Blood when it finally came out yet is there any evidence whatsoever Baigent and Leigh acknowledged Lincoln’s considerably greater contribution to the book’s success in the form of a commensurately larger divvy out of the profits or for that matter they rushed round doling out largesse to the authors they themselves’d pillaged?

    All of which’s to say Dan Brown’s contribution to the upsurge in popularity of a whole genre/period of History’s very much underrated but so is Henry Lincoln’s.

    Henry Lincoln is a very classy unavaricious individual and Dan Brown’d be demonstrating his own classiness and unavariciousness in the face of others’ unrelenting greed as well as his own rarely spoken of credentials as a scholar if he could find a way of helping this project come to fruition especially if it’s something dear to Henry’s own heart.

  2. a really nice way of saying…
    [quote=Greg] While it would be nice to see someone like Dan Brown chip in for such a worthwhile project, I’m sure there’s enough interest in the wider community to get this project to it’s goal.[/quote]

    …sit and spin, Dan Brown…and I don’t blame them 😛

  3. from the fighting-the-addiction-dept.
    and thus it is with everyone…

    the whole current worldview of ‘Newton did it by himself,’ ‘Einstein did it by himself’ is poppycock and lies :3

    we all sit on the shoulders of giants. we exist in an endless series of reflexive information and causes & effects that will continue to effect and cause long after we are gone…

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