{"id":449,"date":"2020-03-09T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T09:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/?p=449"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:36:28","slug":"margaret-elizabeth-meta-williams-1859-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/margaret-elizabeth-meta-williams-1859-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Women Digital: 5. Margaret Elizabeth “Meta” Williams (1859 – 1952)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 there and was appointed the Institute’s Secretary<\/a> in 1910.<\/p>\n

This role seems to have included informal curation and study of a growing collection of artefacts from Institute excavations in Egypt and Sudan as well as more administrative work.<\/p>\n

Meta Williams was credited with ensuring the Institute’s survival during the First World War. She also published her research in academic journals. <\/em>\u00a0When some of the Institute’s artefacts were sold to the Ure Museum in the early 1920s, Meta Williams\u2019 detailed notes on them were incorporated into the Ure’s archives.<\/p>\n