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 awarded a BA, she returned to Reading in late 1916 for postgraduate research focusing on pottery from Greek sites in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
In the following year, she was appointed a lecturer in the Classics Department at Reading. After she and Percy Ure were married in 1918 they worked together both in the Department and on excavations at Rhitsona, Greece, which ended in 1922.<\/p>\n
Annie travelled extensively, making notes on museum collections in many different countries and cities. She became a preeminent expert on Greek, especially Boeotian and Euboean, pottery on which she published many scholarly articles.<\/p>\n
Alongside teaching, she curated the Museum of Greek Archaeology (now the Ure Museum) until her death in 1976.<\/p>\n