John Brian Moore
John Brian Moore | |
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| Residence | Hartlepool, ---, United Kingdom |
| Known for | Cosmology, archaeology, Society for Interdisciplinary Studies |
John Brian Moore is a British librarian and independent researcher who was a joint founder and sometime chairman of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS), a group established to investigate the possible role of extra-terrestrial catastrophes in historical and prehistorical times.
Biography
Moore worked as a senior librarian at the Central Library, Clarence Road, in Hartlepool, in the north-east of England, from which he later retired. His interests spanned cosmology, archaeology and chronology, particularly the study of catastrophism associated with the work of Immanuel Velikovsky.
On 5 November 1974, following a discussion with the archaeologist Euan MacKie, Harold Tresman and Martin Sieff at the Regent Palace Hotel in Piccadilly, London, Moore took part in the initiative that led to the creation of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies. The society was formally established in 1975 to examine and publish research on the possibility that extra-terrestrial catastrophes had influenced the ancient past.
Work
Moore served as a chairman of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies and, for many years, as an editor of its journal, the SIS Review (later Chronology & Catastrophism Review), working alongside the co-ordinating editor Peter J. James. The editorial office of the Review was based at his workplace, the Central Library in Hartlepool. He contributed numerous review and editorial articles to the journal from its early volumes into the 1990s and 2000s, and remained part of its editorial team during that period.
Through the society and its publications, Moore helped promote interdisciplinary study bringing together astronomy, geology, archaeology and ancient history in the examination of catastrophist interpretations of the past.