Category Archives: Archives

ICYMI: Writing about Correspondence

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Kathleen Sheppard

I contributed another post to the HARN blog.  It was about 10 days ago, but I’d love your thoughts on how you use correspondence in your research. https://harngroup.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/the-immortality-of-letters/  

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Writing Elsewhere

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Kathleen Sheppard

I have too been working!  To prove it, look at this.  Two weeks ago, I did a book review for HARN Towers.  It was a review of Andrew Humphreys book On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel. This … Continue reading →

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Part 5: The Paper and my #CVofFailures

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Kathleen Sheppard

This is the FINAL post about what I’ve detailed in this, this, this, and especially THIS post. After I posted the 4th part, and as I read through it as I posted it, I realized that my argument is valid, … Continue reading →

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Part 3: The Paper and the #CVofFailures

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Kathleen Sheppard

Welcome to the 3rd (and shortest) installment of the serial release of my twice-rejected article.  When we last left our heroine, she had been told she was “overly dramatic” in her scholarship about James Henry Breasted’s 1919-1920 trip to Mesopotamia.  … Continue reading →

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Part 2: The Paper and The #CVofFailures

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Kathleen Sheppard

On Tuesday, I posted the beginning of the most recent piece of my CV of Failures. Everyone has been amazingly supportive–not surprisingly.  It is hard when you put yourself out there publicly.  When you submit an article to a journal, … Continue reading →

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Once Written, Twice Rejected: One piece of my #CVofFailures

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Kathleen Sheppard

Have you seen the trending #cvoffailures?  It stems from an idea from a 2010 article in Nature by a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, Melanie Stefan (@MelanieIStefan), that we should keep our failures close, so we can have some … Continue reading →

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Margaret Murray: Outside UCL, Part 1

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Kathleen Sheppard

As many of you know, once you think you’re finished with a project, more and more material comes in.  It’s pretty fun, and thankfully we have outlets, such as blogs, to continue the work.  While attending the HARN conference in … Continue reading →

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Emily Paterson, General Secretary of the Egypt Exploration Fund

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Kathleen Sheppard

After two very productive research trips this summer, taking place in numerous archives, totaling 5 weeks, 4 countries, 3 continents, 2 different nannies, and (hopefully will produce at least) 1 book, I finally have something to blog about!  There will … Continue reading →

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“Not all Archaeologists are Spies…”

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Kathleen Sheppard

…but a lot of them were!  A wonderful recent post on the British National Archives blog by Dr. Juliette Desplat highlights two famous archaeologists who were, indeed, spies.  Digging for King and Country discusses how Gertrude Bell and T. E. … Continue reading →

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MORE Found Letters!

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Kathleen Sheppard

After the post from yesterday about the Murray-Breasted letters, a friend and colleague, Amara Thornton at UCL, wrote to me about her finding recipes from Murray to Gerald Lankester Harding in Harding’s correspondence collections.  See her blog post here, where … Continue reading →

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