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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)

Hidden Women Digital: 10. Nora (Kershaw) Chadwick (1891 – 1972)

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9th March 202020th March 2020

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 >

Hidden Women Digital: 10. Nora (Kershaw) Chadwick (1891 – 1972)

Miss Lawes’ Library

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2nd March 20206th April 2020

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 >

Miss Lawes’ Library

EGYPT IN READING: Excavating Egypt

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1st March 20203rd July 2020

John Garstang first went to Egypt for the winter season of 1899-1900. Although he had already participated on excavations in Britain, he was still in training. In Egypt, he gained…Read More >

EGYPT IN READING: Excavating Egypt

Vivian (Whitfield) Wade-Gery (1897-1988)

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6th January 20204th October 2020

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)

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3rd January 20206th May 2021

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 >

Grace Ernestine Holding (c. 1878-1943)

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19th December 201920th March 2020

By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) Grace Ernestine Holding was born in London in around 1878.  She obtained a B. A. degree from the University of Wales, attending University…Read More >

From the Archive: The Road to Mykalessos

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9th December 201920th March 2020

By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) This summer, the Ure Museum team embarked on a wholesale sort through the archives.  It was an interesting and enlightening exercise, and it…Read More >

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