![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…
![Shoes and clothes – 4](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jacoby_cropped-1-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the fourth in a series looking at clothing. This instalment focuses on the clothes worn by Myrtle Broome and…
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Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of a series looking at clothing, and focuses on the day-to-day clothes worn by Myrtle Broome and…
![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…
![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…