Manufacturing the past : the Victorian background -- Establishing the discipline -- Containing the amateurs -- Making progress -- The politics of socialism -- The diffusion heresy : nurture and the primitive -- Establishing diffusion -- A clash of narratives : diffusion and the archaeologists -- The esoteric revival -- The universal bond -- Stonehenge : a mecca of Celtic idealism -- The aesthetics of order -- The old straight track -- The straight track postal club -- Straight track to beyond -- Visions of civilization.