![Shoes and clothes – 5](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Singer-127K4-cropped-e1715083860784-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the last in a series looking at clothing. This one focuses on Myrtle’s sewing, initially mostly for mending, but…
![Shoes and clothes – 3](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1178-loading-generator-on-cart-cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the third in a series looking at clothing. This instalment focuses on the clothes worn by the servants who…
![Flying – 2](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DesertMtScene1HRT_BUSMT_BUSMT_2000_227_47-001-Cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. During the 1930s air travel moved from being the preserve of pioneering aviators and the rich to scheduled air services within reach…
![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…
![Children’s Christmas parties](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FHJTBCOIRGZZOB1-cropped-1.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at the parties Amice Calverley, Myrtle Broome and others gave for the local Egyptian and ex-patriate children at Christmas….
![Christmas cards from Abydos](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1149-Christmas-card-town-Cropped.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at some of the Christmas cards Myrtle Broome and Amice Calverley made and sent from Abydos to family and…
![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…