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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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Animals – 7: Horses and donkeys

Animals – 7: Horses and donkeys

February 24, 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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Water – 2

Water – 2

November 15, 2023
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

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…

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Learning Arabic – 1

Learning Arabic – 1

February 14, 2023
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of a series about Myrtle Broome’s experience of learning Arabic. This post looks at her earliest experiences…

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Enjoying Marseille with Amice and Hugh Calverley, 4 October 1929

Enjoying Marseille with Amice and Hugh Calverley, 4 October 1929

March 22, 2022
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. The last post described Myrtle’s voyage from the UK to Marseilles, via Gibraltar, in 1929. There she was joined by two more…

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