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Women Writing Popular Archaeology
Katherine Woolley’s accounts of excavations at Ur, the role of women in recording archaeology and the imperial history these articles dig up
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This talk will focus on a series of articles on excavations at Ur written by the archaeologist Katharine Woolley in the late 1920s. Published in the popular women’s magazine Britannia and Eve, Woolley’s series “Digging Up Bible History” explained in some detail the methods of excavation, profiled some of the excavators involved, and highlighted key discoveries during the ongoing work. Katharine Woolley was not the first woman to write about archaeology for a popular audience, and this talk will set Woolley’s text against other popular texts by women who were as involved in archaeological work as Katharine. It will also explore what these texts reveal about ‘local’ excavators, and the imperial histo