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A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story so Far
A Classical Archaeologists’s Life: The Story so Far shows that a scholar’s life is not all scholarship, though much of this book is devoted to the writing of books and, especially, …
Passionate Patron: The Life of Alexander Hardcastle and the Greek Temples of Agrigento
In this account, Alexandra Richardson reveals (as she says in her introduction) her quest to get to know a ‘remarkable man who wholly dedicated his later life and finances to …
The World of Disney: From Antiquarianism to Archaeology
Dr John Disney (1779-1857) was the benefactor of the first chair in archaeology at a British university. He also donated his major collection to the University of Cambridge. The …
Bryan Faussett: Antiquary Extraordinary
A biography of Bryan Faussett, F.S.A., (1720-1776), pioneering Kent genealogist, archaeologist and antiquary who, at his death, had amassed the world’s greatest collection of …
Well Met! Friends and Travelling Companions of Rev. Thomas Bowles
Throughout the two years of a grand tour as far as Australia and New Zealand (1852-4), Rev Thomas Bowles kept a daily journal, ultimately filling over 1000 pages in 3 volumes. …
My dear Miss Ransom: Letters between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted, 1898-1935
Caroline Louise Ransom Williams (1872-1952) is remembered as the first American university-trained female Egyptologist, but she is not widely-known in the history of science. Her …
Percy Manning: The Man Who Collected Oxfordshire
Percy Manning (1870-1917) was an Oxford antiquary who amassed enormous collections about the history of Oxford and Oxfordshire, which now constitute a valuable resource in Oxford …
Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator
Winifred Lamb was a pioneering archaeologist in the Aegean and Anatolia. She studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and subsequently served in naval intelligence alongside …
Aleksei P. Okladnikov: The Great Explorer of the Past. Volume 2
Aleksei P. Okladnikov: The Great Explorer of the Past (Volume II) is about the life and works of Aleksei P. Okladnikov (1908–1981), a prominent archaeologist who spent more than 50 …
Shifting Sand: Journal of a cub archaeologist, Palestine 1964
Shifting Sand is the journal of Julian Berry, then a 17-year-old archaeologist, written on-site during excavations in Deir Alla, Jordan, in 1964. The dig was organized by the …
From Cambridge to Lake Chad: Life in archaeology 1956–1971
This book is about how the author became an archaeologist at a time when opportunities for employment were rare and how he worked as a field researcher in West Africa and wrote …
András Bodor and the History of Classical Studies in Transylvania in the 20th century
András Bodor and the history of classical studies in Transylvania in the 20th century is the first comprehensive work focusing on the life of a classicist from Transylvania, …