![Shoes and clothes – 3](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1178-loading-generator-on-cart-cropped-470x140.jpg)
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…
![Music – 2 (1930–1937)](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1173-three-musicians-1-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post in the second of two looking at Myrtle Broome’s enjoyment of music, particularly musical entertainment provided by Egyptian musicians in…
![Music – 1 (1929–1933)](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Broome_306_4_res150ppi-cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post in the first of two looking at Myrtle Broome’s enjoyment of music, particularly musical entertainment provided by Egyptian musicians in…
![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…
![Christmas cards from Abydos](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1149-Christmas-card-town-Cropped.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at some of the Christmas cards Myrtle Broome and Amice Calverley made and sent from Abydos to family and…
![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…
![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…
![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…