![Mental health – 1](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Asfurieh-cropped.png)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of two looking at the impact that the intense work and isolated living conditions at Arabah el-Madfunah…
![Sardic](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1135.2-Sardic-kissing-camel.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at “Sardic”, the head servant at Abydos, and the extraordinary range of his contributions to the success of the…
![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…
![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…
![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…