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Animals – 8: Camels – 1: Learning to ride a camel

Animals – 8: Camels – 1: Learning to ride a camel

May 12, 2025
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

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…

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Shoes and clothes – 5

Shoes and clothes – 5

May 21, 2024
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

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…

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Shoes and clothes – 4

Shoes and clothes – 4

April 23, 2024
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the fourth in a series looking at clothing. This instalment focuses on the clothes worn by Myrtle Broome and…

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Shoes and clothes – 3

Shoes and clothes – 3

March 26, 2024
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

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…

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Shoes and clothes – 1

Shoes and clothes – 1

February 6, 2024
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of a series looking at clothing, and focuses on the day-to-day clothes worn by Myrtle Broome and…

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Sardic

Sardic

June 28, 2022
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at “Sardic”, the head servant at Abydos, and the extraordinary range of his contributions to the success of the…

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Nannie

Nannie

June 14, 2022
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. In this post, learn more about “Nannie” — “a dear old soul [who] looks after us splendidly”. It was in Cairo in…

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A busy five days in Cairo, 10–14 October 1929

A busy five days in Cairo, 10–14 October 1929

April 19, 2022
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. In this post, join Myrtle Broome in Cairo, visiting the British Consulate, the Gezira Sporting Club, the Cairo Museum and the Pyramids,…

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The voyage to Port Said – London to Marseille

The voyage to Port Said – London to Marseille

March 8, 2022
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle Broome’s enthusiasm and interest in everything around her shines out from her description of her voyage to Port Said on the…

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Happy Birthday, Myrtle!

Happy Birthday, Myrtle!

February 22, 2022
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle’s birthdays were celebrated with birthday cake, presents and cards from family and friends in England and Egypt, as well as special…

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