![Animals – 1: Camp dogs – 1](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Wip-wat-photo-Screenshot-from-letter-123-470x140.png)
Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle Broome’s interest in animals, and love of dogs in particular, is clear in many of her letters. This post is one…
![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…
![Flying – 2](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DesertMtScene1HRT_BUSMT_BUSMT_2000_227_47-001-Cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. During the 1930s air travel moved from being the preserve of pioneering aviators and the rich to scheduled air services within reach…
![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…
![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…