![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 – 1](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1131-scarecrow-on-Red-Sea-coast-470x140.jpg)
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…
![Water – 4](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Arabsittingonrockoverpool-Cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the last of four looking at water, and focuses on the various wells and springs Myrtle Broome encountered on…
![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…
![Water – 1](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Eastern_Desert-cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of four looking at water, and focuses on the team’s personal washing arrangements at the Abydos dig-house…
![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…
![Learning Arabic – 4](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1165-Weaver-seated-w-hanging-loom-cropped.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…