![Animals – 2: Camp dogs – 2](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Wip-wat-with-mother-cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle Broome’s love of animals shines through many of her letters. This post is one of a series looking at the animals…
![Animals – 1: Camp dogs – 1](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Wip-wat-photo-Screenshot-from-letter-123-470x140.png)
Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle Broome’s interest in animals, and love of dogs in particular, is clear in many of her letters. This post is one…
![Shoes and clothes – 2](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Broome-101-2-e1708359902483-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the second in a series looking at clothing. This instalment focuses on footwear. The team’s shoes and boots got…
![Water – 2](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GulfofSuezHRT_BUSMT-cropped-1-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the second of four relating to water. The first in the series focused on personal washing arrangements. This second…
![Music – 2 (1930–1937)](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1173-three-musicians-1-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post in the second of two looking at Myrtle Broome’s enjoyment of music, particularly musical entertainment provided by Egyptian musicians in…
![Learning Arabic – 6](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1959.613.28-City-Wall-and-Mosque-of-Omar-Jerusalem-2-Cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This is one of a series about Myrtle Broome’s experience of learning Arabic. This post is the second of two looking at…
![Police – 2: The frontier police and senior police officers](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/prbmt-05167red-cropped.png)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at Myrtle Broome’s dealings with the frontier police and with the higher ranks of the police force. Each season…
![Police – 1: The local police officer](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1141-Myrtle-with-Wip-wat-Cropped.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at Myrtle Broome’s dealings with the local police in Arabah el-Madfunah. Myrtle Broome and Amice Calverley had frequent contact…
![The team’s physical health – 2: Accidents](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/homocea-hands1-cropped.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at some of the accidents, both minor and major, that happened to Myrtle Broome and her colleagues at Abydos….
![“Doctors’ parades”](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Flit-sprayer-cropped.png)
Author: Susan Biddle. “We have hospital parade most mornings. The people here get horrid boils, we usually give them a good dose of Epsom, Lysol…