Tag: Middle east Records and researchWomen in the Second World War: The Palestinian Auxiliary Territorial ServiceWednesday 26 January 2022As the women’s branch of the British Army during the Second World War, the...Records and researchCataloguing the Middle East Mandates: Restarting the projectThursday 8 July 2021Back in 2018, we planned a project to catalogue part of the Colonial Office...Records and researchCataloguing the Middle East mandates – making inroadsMonday 18 May 2020Back in August 2018, we published a blog on a volunteer project to catalogue...Archives and archivistsCataloguing the Middle East mandates in the 1920sWednesday 1 August 2018With the help of volunteers, to whom we are extremely grateful, we are undertaking a series...Records and researchThe Glubb Pasha papers: a precarious existenceTuesday 4 April 2017Historical documents are precious, but their existence can be precarious. This was emphasised when...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 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...Archives and archivists‘Dividing the bear’s skin while the bear is still alive’Monday 16 May 2016100 years on, Dr Juliette Desplat reflects on the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement …...Records and research‘Fair international reasoning’Friday 16 October 2015In my last blog, I mentioned antiquities discovered in Samarra that became the centre...Records and researchPeaceful archaeologyWednesday 19 August 2015Last time, I blogged about the fate of antiquities and ancient monuments in times...Records and research‘A state of affairs that fills me with grave disquiet and distress’Friday 26 June 2015The destruction of antiquities and ancient monuments has, sadly, been making the headlines rather...Records and researchDigging for King and CountryTuesday 18 November 2014As I very often tell my friends and colleagues, not all archaeologists are spies.... 1 2 »
