Event Type: Local / Community

Takes Place: 4th November 2024

Time: 6.00pm

Venue: Senate House Library, London

Description: Mary (May) Brodrick (1858-1933) was a pioneer Egyptologist and a keen geographer. She spent most of her time in life in Egypt, associating with the likes of Cromer and Kitchener, and playing some part in British colonial rule. The culmination was when she travelled in state from Wadi Halfa to Khartoum and back, taking the salute at the annual Gordon Memorial Service. Mary has several important connections to Bloomsbury, including that of having been the first woman lecturer at the British Museum. Although she had initially studied Egyptology in Paris, she later became a fee-paying student at UCL residing at College Hall, which was then located in Byng Place. Moreover, her legacy lives on in Bloomsbury today: on her death she would bequeath part of her library to College Hall and her personal collection of antiquities to the Petrie Museum.

How to book: register here: https://www.pascal-theatre.com/project/4-november-mary-brodrick-pioneer-egyptologist-and-bloomsbury-resident-rosalind-janssen/

Price: free

Email: events@pascal-theatre.com

Website: https://www.pascal-theatre.com/project/workshops-and-events-2022/

Organiser: Pascal Theatre Company

Lecturer: Rosalind Janssen

Comments: This talk forms part of a Lottery Funded Project: Women for Women: 19th century Women in Bloomsbury. Rosalind Janssen is Honorary Lecturer in Education at UCL’s Institute of Education. An Egyptologist by profession, she was previously a Curator at UCL’s

Region: London