![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…
![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…
![Learning Arabic – 1](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1140-Amice-playing-drum.jpg)
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…
![Enjoying Marseille with Amice and Hugh Calverley, 4 October 1929](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Count_of_Monte_Cristo_1913-detail.jpg)
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…