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 >
Collectors Curators Cataloguers
Hidden Women Digital: 10. Nora (Kershaw) Chadwick (1891 – 1972)
Nora (Kershaw) Chadwick was a school friend of Annie (Hunt) Ure. They both attended Stoneycroft School together. Nora Kershaw attended Newham College, Cambridge and then taught at the University of…Read More >
Miss Lawes’ Library
By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) In 1947 the Museum of Greek Archaeology at the University of Reading received a bequest. A small number of Egyptian antiquities came into…Read More >
Vivian (Whitfield) Wade-Gery (1897-1988)
By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) Born in Dublin, Vivian Whitfield studied at Trinity College Dublin, winning a Gold Medal for excelling in Classics. She attended Somerville College, Oxford…Read More >
Caroline Amy Hutton (1861-1931)
By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) Born in New Zealand, Caroline Amy Hutton attended Girton College, Cambridge and studied Classics in the early 1880s. Like her contemporary at Girton…Read More >
Introducing Annie’s Box
By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) This month we launched our research and outreach project “Annie’s Box”. It came to fruition through a generous grant from Friends of the…Read More >
TIMELINE: Annie Dunman Hunt Ure (1893-1976) – Part 1
By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) We have been researching Annie Ure’s life and career over the past few months. Earlier this summer, our UROP student Ruth Lloyd created…Read More >
#CollCurCat
By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) The "Collectors, Curators and Cataloguers" workshop held on 12 June at the Museum of English Rural Life and the Ure Museum at the...Read More >
Bibliography: Collectors, Curators and Cataloguers
This bibliography is a running list of publications relevant to the themes of the Collectors, Curators and Cataloguers Workshop. It represents both research published by workshop speakers, and by the…Read More >
Programme: Collectors, Curators and Cataloguers Workshop
WORKSHOP: Collectors, Curators and Cataloguers: Hidden Women in Archaeology in the 19th and 20th Centuries 12 June 2019, University of Reading Funded by the Heritage and Creativity Institute for Collections…Read More >