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Current projects

Much of the work done in the Society’s London library and archive is completed by our dedicated team of volunteers. During the past four years a number of essential projects have been completed in the archive, many of which now have content online. We also have a team of volunteers in our Cairo office helping to organise and run events, and manage our library at the British Council. Find out more about our current projects below.

Cairo event assistants

Mohamed Ibrahim, Maha Mohammed, Mostafa Y Tolba, Mostafa Ezz Alarab (2015-ongoing)

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A team of volunteers assist Essam Nagy (our Cairo Fieldwork and Engagement Manager) in providing regular lectures, evening classes and conferences in Egypt. Details of forthcoming events can be found on our website.

Published: 11th July, 2018

Author: Stephanie Boonstra

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Cataloguing the correspondence

Dr Brigitte Balanda (2014-ongoing)

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Brigitte started volunteering for the Society in January 2014 and took on the mammoth task of scanning, cataloguing and transcribing our sub-archive of correspondence, dating from around the foundation of the Fund through to the 1920s. There are an estimated 6500 documents in these collections, and Brigitte has so far completed the recording of around 2000 (as per December 2015). The final aim for this project is to put transcriptions into the Society’s online library and archive catalogue so that they are searchable. 

Collection highlights by Brigitte in the early correspondence:

Deciphering and discovering: Cataloguing the Early Correspondence

Some detective work, and a real-life murder mystery

The Multi-talented Mrs McClure

Published: 11th July, 2018

Author: Carl Graves

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Digitizing the distribution

Alix Robinson (2015-ongoing)

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As part of the Society’s partnership with the Artefacts of Excavation project run by Dr Alice Stevenson at UCL we have been aided by Alix Robinson in scanning all of our records relating to the distribution of artefacts from archaeological sites in Egypt between 1882 and 1980. Hundreds of records in 79 different files will be scanned and catalogued before they are uploaded on the Artefacts of Excavation website. Alix writes about the distribution of EES excavated artefacts to the Bristol Museum here.

Published: 11th July, 2018

Author: Stephanie Boonstra

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Managing the Cairo library

Mohamed Ibrahim, Maha Mohammed, Mostafa Y Tolba, Mostafa Ezz Alarab (2015-ongoing)

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As the Cairo library is now regularly used by members wanting to research the history of Egypt and the Society, a team of volunteers regularly manage the library collections ensuring that books are easy to find and that users know which books are most useful for their work.

Published: 11th July, 2018

Author: Stephanie Boonstra

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Organising the London library

Tilly Burton, Barbara Youngman, and Hazel Gray (2017-ongoing)

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As the London office transitions to becoming a specialist research institution, our team of library volunteers have removed duplicate copies of books and reorganised the library to allow room for new acquisitions. The superfluous books were deaccessioned and donated to libraries across the U.K. The volunteers are now working on processing a large library donation.

Published: 25th July, 2018

Updated: 12th February, 2020

Author: Stephanie Boonstra

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Scanning early Egypt Travel magazines

Guilherme Borges Pires (2020)

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The history of European Egyptology has often gone hand in hand with the popularity of travel in Egypt. Guilherme is scanning the covers and contents pages of a number of interesting Egyptian-made travel magazines dating from the 1920s-1970s and researching the Egyptian artists who created the cover art.

Published: 12th February, 2020

Author: Stephanie Boonstra

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Scanning the Apted Slides

Julie Tomsova (2020)

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The EES holds a collection of lecture slides that were taken by Michael Apted during the 1948-50 excavation seasons at Meir and during his travels in Egypt. Julie is digitising these slides to make them digitally accessible on the EES Flickr page. These slides were created alongside video footage taken during the same period presenting a typical working day at Meir which Apted used to give lectures on his return to the UK.

Published: 12th February, 2020

Author: Stephanie Boonstra

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Scanning the SAQ-SAN object cards

Francesca Kenney (2020)

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During the excavations of the Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis during the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of artefacts were discovered. The objects were meticulously recorded on individual object cards that are held in the EES archive. Francesca is scanning these object cards so that they can be made available via the EES Flickr page once the project is complete.

Published: 12th February, 2020

Author: Stephanie Boonstra

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