Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Gabriel Moshenska and Clare Lewis
Part I: Critical perspectives
1 Biography in science studies and the historiography of archaeology: Some methodological guidelines
Marc-Antoine Kaiser
2 A plea for 'higher criticism' in disciplinary history: Life-writing sources in the history of German-speaking Egyptology
Thomas L. Gertzen
3 Toward a prosopography of archaeology from the margins
Thea De Armond
4 Crafting an institution, reshaping a discipline: Intellectual biography, the archive and philanthropic culture
Jeffrey Abt
5 An epistolary corpus: Beyond the margins of ‘official’ archives, T.E. Peet’s First World War correspondence
Clare Lewis
6 Archaeology, social networks and lives: ‘Dig writing’ and the history of archaeology
Bart Wagemakers
Part II: Sources and networks
7 The accidental linguist: Herbert Thompson’s contribution to Egyptian language studies traced through his archive Catherine Ansorge
8 Margerie Venables Taylor (1881-1963): An unsung heroine of Roman Britain?
Martha Lovell Stewart
9 Father Alfred-Louis Delattre (1850-1932) versus Paul Gauckler (1866-1911): The struggle to control archaeology at Carthage at the turn of the twentieth century
Joann Freed
10 Hugh Falconer: botanist, palaeontologist, controversialist
Tim Murray
11 Personal and professional networks in early nineteenth-century Egyptology: The letters of Conrad Leemans to Thomas Pettigrew
Gabriel Moshenska
12 Life-writing Vere Gordon Childe from secret surveillance files
Katie Meheux
Part III: Reflections on practice
13 Alternative narratives in the history of archaeology: Exploring diaries as a form of reflexivity
Oscar Moro Abadía
14 Archaeologists, curators, collectors and donors: reflecting on the past through archaeological lives
David Gill
15 The ghosts of Mary Ann Severn Newton: Grief, an imagined life and (auto)biography
Debbie Challis
Index