Tag: Egypt Records and research100 years ago: ‘Egypt is declared to be an independent sovereign State’Thursday 17 March 2022One hundred years ago, on 28 February 1922, Edmund Allenby, the British High-Commissioner in...Records and researchAn undiplomatic diplomat: Morton Howell in CairoThursday 4 July 2019According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a diplomat is ‘a person who can deal...Records and researchThe Cairo Museum that never wasFriday 26 April 2019Very few things are actually better than the opening of a new archaeological museum....Records and researchSpy or scholar? Meet Dr Curt PrüferMonday 24 September 2018During the First World War, British Intelligence made good use of scholars – notably archaeologists and...Records and researchTracing the political history of Cairo’s coffeehousesThursday 23 March 2017Tracing the history of Cairo’s coffeehouses can offer invaluable insights into Egypt’s social, cultural,...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 researchThe Nefertiti affair: the history of a repatriation debateFriday 16 September 2016Anglo-French rivalry, Germanophobia, two world wars and a flawless artefact. This is the background...Records and research‘Giving the Turks a drubbing’: The Battle of RomaniFriday 5 August 2016100 years ago, the Battle of Romani took place 23 miles east of the...Records and researchLászló von Almásy: the real ‘English patient’Friday 22 July 2016Some of the true stories behind 'The English Patient' are much more entertaining than...Behind the scenes‘A trickle of Pharaonic valuables’Friday 5 February 2016We look behind the scenes of the British Museum's Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972…...Records and research‘Entente Cordiale’, you said?Friday 25 July 2014As a French historian working at The National Archives, I am particularly interested in...Records and researchPolitics, Egyptology and revolutionMonday 2 June 2014In May 1919, the British government decided to send a Special Mission headed by... 1 2 »