By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum)
Preliminiary information on the Ure Museum’s archive holdings can be found below. For more information or research access enquiries, please email ure@reading.ac.uk.
The Ure Museum archives include items relating to a variety of themes and histories, and comprise personal and professional correspondence, photographs, excavation records, research notes and notebooks, conservation reports, ephemera, audio files and offprints. These include:
- correspondence of Greek archaeologists and excavation workers (c. 1910s-1950s) including:
- Christos Karouzos (Χρήστος Καρούζος) (1900-1977)
- Semni Papaspyridi Karouzou (Σημνή Παπασπυρίδη Καρούζου) (1897-1994)
- Antonios Keramopoulos (Αντώνιος Κεραμόπουλος) (1870-1960)
- Nikolaos [Nikos] G. Papadakis (Νικόλαος Παπαδάκης) (1874-1945) and his wife Eleni (Filtsou) Papadaki (Ελένη Φιλτσου Παπαδάκη)
- Athanasios Vasileiou
- Correspondence of international archaeologists working predominantly on Greek material or conducting excavations/museum work in Greece (c. 1900s-1970s)
- Reginald Percy Austin (1900-1943)
- John Beazley (1885-1970) (includes some letters from Marie Beazley)
- Sylvia Benton (1887-1985)
- Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935)
- Ronald Montague Burrows (1867-1920)
- Richard MacGillivray Dawkins (1871-1955)
- Ernest Arthur Gardner (1862-1939)
- Émile Gilliéron (1850-1924)
- Hetty Goldman (1881-1972)
- Frederick William Hasluck (1878-1920)
- Charles Henry Hawes (1867-1943)
- Caroline Amy Hutton (1861-1931)
- Grace Holding (1878-1943)
- Georg Karo (1872-1963)
- Winifred Lamb (1894-1963)
- Jocelyn Toynbee (1897-1985)
- Alan Wace (1879-1957)
- Vivian (Whitfield) Wade-Gery (1897-1988)
- Alice Walker (Kosmopoulos) (1885-1954)
- Arthur Maurice Woodward (1883-1973)
- The excavation records (including notebooks, correspondence, and photographs) of Percy Ure and Ronald Burrows’ excavations at Rhitsona (1905-1909) and Percy Ure and Annie Ure’s excavations at Rhitsona (1921-22)
- Correspondence from Percy Ure’s travels in Europe (c. 1907-14)
- Correspondence with international museum curators relating primarily to collections of Greek ceramics (c 1920s-1970s)
- Photographs of Greek ceramics from a wide range of museum collections
- Notebooks of museum research and display in various European museums (c. 1910s-1960s)
- Reports and correspondence relating to the history of the archaeological collections at the University of Reading
- Paperwork relating to the acquisition of archaeological artefacts for the Museum of Greek Archaeology through donation and purchase (c 1910s-1970s), including receipts, accounts and correspondence
- Historic artefact catalogues and labels from the Museum of Greek Archaeology
- Museum administration and records relating to research requests