Posts by Dr Juliette Desplat Records and researchFrom Tripoli to TimbuktuThursday 5 April 2018One hundred and ninety years ago, in April 1828, French explorer René Caillé became...Records and researchArchaeological business as usual? Digging in the Hatay in the 1930sFriday 2 February 2018After the First World War, the League of Nations granted France a Mandate on...Records and researchThe battle for heavy waterThursday 14 December 2017Last October, I attended a conference on ‘Résistance et Dissuasion’ – the Resistance and...Records and researchAnglo-French archaeological squabbles in AfghanistanFriday 13 October 2017In Afghanistan, just like elsewhere in the world, the British and the French squabbled...Records and researchThe other battle of SamarraFriday 18 August 2017In April 1917 the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force captured Samarra. The authorities made a discovery...Records and researchHess, hot dogs and haute cuisineThursday 20 July 2017We're looking at culinary episodes in the files: prison table manners in Spandau, haute...Records and researchDecolonising archaeology in Iraq?Tuesday 27 June 2017The ‘Arpachiyah Scandal’, involving Agatha Christie’s husband Max Mallowan, was a first step in...Records and researchFrom Persia to Iran, via InglistanThursday 15 June 2017In 1933, the Persians asked governments around the world to make slight adjustments to...Records and researchA British ‘spy school’ in the Middle East?Friday 3 March 2017The Middle East Centre for Arab Studies was nicknamed ‘the British spy school’ in...Records and researchClare Hollingworth: ‘A clever English journalist’Wednesday 15 February 2017War correspondent Clare Hollingworth filed the scoop of the century: the beginning of the...Records and researchAntiquity versus modernity? Philae and the Aswan DamWednesday 8 February 2017The rescue of the temples of Philae in the 1970s is fairly well documented,...Records and researchFiles from 1989 and 1990: Kuwait, condolences and acid houseFriday 30 December 2016Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet files from 1989 and 1990 have been released today... « 1 2 3 4 5 »