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“Hidden Women in the Archive” Digital Exhibition

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10th March 202018th March 2020

This exhibition is a complement to the ‘Collectors, Curators and Cataloguers‘ workshop held on 12th June 2019. It highlights the histories of ten women who contributed to the Ure Museum…Read More >

“Hidden Women in the Archive” Digital Exhibition

Hidden Women Digital: 1. Annie Dunman (Hunt) Ure (1893 – 1976)

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9th March 202020th March 2020

Annie Dunman (Hunt) Ure came to Reading initially in 1911 to study Classics at the University College Reading. She was taught by Professor of Classics Percy Ure. After she was…Read More >

Hidden Women Digital: 1. Annie Dunman (Hunt) Ure (1893 – 1976)

Hidden Women Digital: 2. Hilda (Urlin) Petrie (1871 – 1957)

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9th March 202020th March 2020

Hilda (Urlin) Petrie had a long-standing interest in history and science from childhood. As a teenager, she took geology classes at King’s College Ladies Department. She modelled for noted Arts…Read More >

Hidden Women Digital: 2. Hilda (Urlin) Petrie (1871 – 1957)

Hidden Women Digital: 3. Ellen (Exall) Barry (1866-1939)

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9th March 202028th April 2021

Ellen (Exall) Barry grew up in Reading. Through her sister’s marriage to Alfred Palmer she had a link to the Palmer family. Beyond their business interests in the production of…Read More >

Hidden Women Digital: 3. Ellen (Exall) Barry (1866-1939)

Hidden Women Digital: 4. Gertrude Louisa (Hill) Hurry (c 1860 – 1942)

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9th March 202020th March 2020

Gertrude Louisa (Hill) Hurry was born in Reading. Her father Arthur Hill was a prominent Reading resident, a mayor and justice of the peace. Housing reform pioneer Octavia Hill was…Read More >

Hidden Women Digital: 4. Gertrude Louisa (Hill) Hurry (c 1860 – 1942)

Hidden Women Digital: 5. Margaret Elizabeth “Meta” Williams (1859 – 1952)

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9th March 202020th March 2020

Margaret Elizabeth “Meta” Williams was living in Liverpool when the first Institute of Archaeology in Britain was being set up at the University of Liverpool in 1904. She studied Egyptology…Read More >

Hidden Women Digital: 5. Margaret Elizabeth “Meta” Williams (1859 – 1952)

Hidden Women Digital: 6. Norah Christina Jolliffe (1900 – 1951)

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9th March 20204th October 2020

Norah Christina Jolliffe came to the University of Reading as a Lecturer in Classics. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and Girton College, Cambridge, she was considered a brilliant scholar both…Read More >

Hidden Women Digital: 6. Norah Christina Jolliffe (1900 – 1951)

Hidden Women Digital: 7. Julia Katherine (Wickes) Steele (1871 – 1942)

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9th March 202020th March 2020

Julia Katherine (Wickes) Steele was born in Bengal, India, where her father, Thomas Wickes, was a railway engineer for the Bengal Public Works Department.  After he retired in 1895, the…Read More >

Hidden Women Digital: 7. Julia Katherine (Wickes) Steele (1871 – 1942)

Hidden Women Digital: 8. Anne Mary Wickes (1868 – 1941)

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9th March 202020th March 2020

Anne Mary Wickes was born in Bengal, India, like her sister, Julia Katherine Wickes.  Eventually she became an artist and was based in Hampstead, London. She exhibited her work at three…Read More >

Hidden Women Digital: 8. Anne Mary Wickes (1868 – 1941)

Hidden Women Digital: 9. Henrietta Lawes (c 1861 – 1947)

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9th March 202020th March 2020

Henrietta Lawes grew up in a comfortable home in Berkshire; her father was a successful miller and owned Caversham Mill in Caversham. It is unclear where her interest in ancient…Read More >

Hidden Women Digital: 9. Henrietta Lawes (c 1861 – 1947)

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