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From the Pyramids to Tutankhamun: Memoirs of an Egyptologist
by I E S Edwards
Although Edwards is perhaps not a name familiar to many of us, he was a major figure in Egyptology and the work of the British Museum both in Britain and overseas, from the 1940s onwards. His book Pyramids of Egypt was reprinted time and again, a fact that reflects the importance and popularity of his work. This autobiography describes his early life and childhood, his developing interest and schooling in Egyptology and his career at the ...

Memory and Legacy: A Thackeray Family Biography, 1876-1919
by John Aplin
This book, the second of two volumes anticipating the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not only the author's life, but also the cosmopolitan and literary worlds inhabited by his two daughters, Minny and Annie.

Memory and Legacy continues the family saga long after Thackeray's death, tracing the later lives of his two daughters and their marriages. Minny would marry Leslie Stephen, later ...
Paperback. Price US$53.00

The Inheritance of Genius: A Thackeray Family Biography, 1798-1875
by John Aplin
In his day, William Makepeace Thackeray was one of England's premier novelists, possessed of both great cultural insight and an incisive pen. With time, however, the man himself has fallen from view. Seen today only through the window of his fiction, the author of Vanity Fair is all too readily written off as just another figure amidst the club-centred, bachelor world of mid-Victorian England that fills his writings. Working with ...
Paperback. Price US$53.00

Cyril Fox: Archaeologist Extraordinary
by Charles Scott-Fox, with a preface by Christopher Chippindale
In this biography of Sir Cyril Fox (1882-1967), Charles Scott-Fox discovers that his father was an extraordinary man, an inspiring teacher, an effective administrator, a humanist and an influential archaeologist during the golden years of 20th century archaeology. This book begins as it should with Fox's early childhood and his schooling, before moving on to his university education and his early interest in archeology, initially as a hobby. The ...
Hardback. Price US$70.00

The Best Training Ground for Archaeologists: Francis Haverfield and the Invention of Romano-British Archaeology
by P W M Freeman
To his contemporaries, Francis John Haverfield was the 'father of Romano-British studies' - his death on September 30th 1919 was greated with widespread lamentation. In the decades immediately following his death, Haverfield's reputation survived largely undiminished, in fact his view of the Romanization of Britain became so widely accepted that it held sway for almost a century, and is only now being re-examined by both positive and negative ...

Corolla Cosmo Rodewald
edited by Nicholas Sekunda
Cosmo Rodewald, who died in 2002, was Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Manchester University. Corolla Cosmo Rodewald is a collection of historical essays on the Greek and Roman world written by former colleagues, pupils and admirers of Cosmo, and intended as a gesture to honour the memory of a great man. 192p (Akanthina 2007)

Faces of Archaeology in Greece: Caricatures by Piet de Jong
by Rachel Hood
While working for Arthur Evans in Crete, as well as for other scholars at the legendary sites of Athens, Corinth, Mycenae and Sparta during the 1920s and 30s, the famous archaeological draftsman Piet de Jong made over forty caricatures of his friends and colleagues. In this book the caricatures are printed in full colour, and each cartoon is accompanied by b/w photo and a brief biography of the person represented. The pictures include: Arthur ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$55.00, Our Price US$14.98

A Thackeray Family Biography 1798-1919 (Two Volume Set)
by John Aplin
This two volume biographical study, published in anticipation of the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not only the author's life, but also the cosmopolitan and literary worlds inhabited by his two daughters, Minny ...
Paperback. Price US$94.00

Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes
by Mary Allsebrook
Harriet Boyd was the first woman to lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. At a time when few women travelled on their own, she discovered, excavated and published an account of the Minoan town of Gournia in Crete. She was the first woman to lecture to the Archaeological Instituite of America - ten times in fourteen days in January 1902. While prominent as a lecturer and teacher, archaeology was only a part of her life: in 1897 she was ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$36.00, Our Price US$9.98

Passion For Living: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
by R. E. Pritchard
The life of the second Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, has been much celebrated and dramatised in recent years. His antics have been both admired and condemned throughout the centuries in the writings of poets such as Tennyson, Voltaire, Defoe and Goethe, and his character has been immortalised by the 2004 film portrayal starring Johnny Depp. In this biography, R.E. Pritchard provides an up-to-date, sound and entertaining account of the life and ...
Paperback. Price US$40.00