![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 – 1: Illness](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Vapex-cropped.png)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at some of the illnesses, both minor and more serious, that afflicted the Abydos team, and how these were…
![A typical working day for Myrtle Broome](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/AB.NEG_.25.044-Felton-photo-resized.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post describes a typical working day for Myrtle Broome and the methods she and Amice Calverley used to record the relief…
![Nannie](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1145-Nannie-in-the-garden.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. In this post, learn more about “Nannie” — “a dear old soul [who] looks after us splendidly”. It was in Cairo in…
![Clearing customs at Port Said and Alexandria](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HRT_BUSMT_2000_227_21-001.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. Next time you negotiate the Customs channels at an airport or dock, spare a thought for Myrtle Broome and Amice Calverley dealing…
![The voyage to Port Said – London to Marseille](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Marseille_Palais_Longchamp_02_20061231.jpg)
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…
![Happy Birthday, Myrtle!](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Broome_279_04p-cropped.jpg)
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…