 Thank you very much, everyone, for coming today. Let me just get my talk up. By way of introduction, I'm going to do a sort of general overview of some of the FSAs who are represented in the blue paper. So I did a sort of very initial analysis, very initial, of blue papers between 1920 and 1945. So I'm going to be concentrating on that period. And as a sort of introduction to me, my interest is really in the social history of archaeology. So I'm going to talk about some women, but I'm going to focus on less well-known FSAs because we've got some other papers covering other people who might be more well-known, and less well-known people have something interesting to say. Well, I'm going to say something interesting, hopefully, about the less well-known people today. So we heard from Jill about the sort of prehistory, if you like, of women in the society, but I thought I would just bring out some newspaper coverage of women before 1921, the first FSAs who were women were elected. And so we have a mention at the top, left, right, left, whatever, over there, of Miss Margaret Stokes contributing a paper. So this is a note in the Academy from 1881, and like Jill said, please do have a look at her amazing illustrations on the table. But I also wanted to pull out some other examples. So we have Miss Oakover and Miss Talbot exhibiting at the same meeting or having things exhibited on their behalf at the same meeting in 1889, and also Miss Cochran in 1908. And these are all also reflected in the proceedings of the society. So you get longer sort of write-ups of their exhibitions in the proceedings. But I thought it was important just to flag up that these proceedings are also sort of being republished in periodicals that are going out to a wider audience by way of sort of introducing their names into this sort of more popular purview. I should also just say that when I was doing my preliminary sort of research for this, I found that Margaret Stokes had a lecture series named after her in Dublin, which I thought was quite interesting, and that was published in the proceedings as well, just the fact that there was a lecture series, not an introduction to it. But I thought that was important to highlight here. I also wanted to highlight the fact that we have different kinds of exhibitions. So a Greek amphora fished up off a boat, off the Greek coast, and also a more historical rather than an archaeological exhibition, so the 15th century major. So I did, like I say, a very preliminary draft analysis of women who were being proposed. This is not women who were being elected just proposed from the blue paper records. And you can see that the numbers are not high, although there was a big uptick in 1944 probably because women are doing more stuff during the war. I don't know exactly, but I thought I would put over that the names of some more famous women and when they were being proposed according to the blue paper, so you can see some notable FSAs there. But like I say, I'm not really going to talk about these people because I'm interested in the other women who are being proposed and elected as FSAs, but I thought it would be interesting to contextualize this. So the first paper that appears in the minute books is for Eugenie Strong, who was the Assistant Director of the British School at Rome. So her honoris causa proposal is the 28th of April 1920. And I like, I sort of reproduced on the slide, they had to cross out the 18 because it was, you know, an old paper. But I've also put on this slide an example of something that Eugenie Strong was doing prior to her being elected. So she was writing articles summarizing excavations and archeological activity in Rome during World War I on behalf of the director who was away on war work. And I think this is a really interesting sort of example of women who were writing about archeology for a popular audience. And there are several examples of her letters to the times, summarizing archeological excavations and discoveries in Italy, one of which I'll come back to later on in the presentation, but it was the discovery in 1917 of an underground basilica in the Porta Maggiore, which comes back in later on in the presentation. So one of the other women that I wanted to highlight whose blue paper is on display over there is Marjorie Venable's Taylor. And one of the interesting things that comes out in this history is the fact that women were involved in very important administrative jobs and those are the jobs that are in part the reasons for which they are being put forward in the society. And it's really important to sort of realize that administration is a very important part of women's roles within archeology and it really brings them a sort of network that can help support their fellowship applications. And you can see that her distinguished services to the study of Rome and Britain and the fact that she's the secretary and editor of the Roman Society's journal is what's being flagged up here. And I also went through the blue papers that I had photographs of and started to see whose blue paper she was signing. So you can see a sort of list of the ones that I found in my quick troll. And three of the women at the bottom there, Kathleen Kenyon obviously we've heard about earlier in Jill's talk, Sylvia Benton I will come back to and I will also come back to Dorothy McKay but I think it was interesting to see that she's not only signing the blue papers of women she's also signing the blue papers of men. And the picture that I put up is significant because, not because it's a picture of me, but because the picture is of Marjorie Venable's chair which is in the Roman Society's office. So because I don't have a picture of her and if anyone has a picture of her I'd love to see what she looks like because one of the things that came out in a workshop that I put together last year is the fact that it's really hard sometimes to find pictures of women and we want to find pictures of women because we're curious about what they looked like but as an alternative I put a picture of her chair online but it's nice to know that her chair is still preserved in the office of the Roman Society to which she devoted so much time. So we've also got Eliza Jeffries Davis I picked her out because she's a historian and I wanted to highlight the role of historians in the society she also was unusual in that she had an academic position so she was a lecturer and a reader in fact at UCL of the history of London also she's doing quite important editorial work as the editor of the Quarterly Journal of the Historical Association and then because I was trying to think about how women were being represented in the newspaper I found this quite entertaining review of a lecture that she gave at the Churches of the City in 1924 four years before she's proposed as a fellow in which she says that city churches were spoiled by modern painted glass and she added that if anyone wanted to accomplish a good piece of work he could do no better than to go smashing the inferior windows of the city churches so I'm not sure that she would have been praised by buildings conservators for that view but anyway I thought it was an interesting reflection on her sort of ethos when it comes to conservation who else have we got so Sylvia Benton Sylvia Benton was an archaeologist who worked primarily in Greece and while I was thinking about this presentation it just so happened that we had a volunteer at the Euromuseum who was going through a box file which is on display in a little display case we have that is a recreation of Percy Eur's desk and Percy Eur was a professor of classics at Reading he became a professor of classics in 1911 and he married Annie Eur and the Euromuseum has a really interesting archive of letters from lots of different archaeologists who were working in Greece and it just so happened that this box file that the volunteer was going through had some letters from Sylvia Benton in it so instead of having a picture of her I thought I would put up a letter which has just recently been discovered in the files at the Euromuseum and it's about, she's writing to Percy Eur about an impending trip to Greece and submitting a photograph of some pottery that she has been researching I also wanted to flag up the importance of museums starting to look at their archives and Learner Society starting to look at their archives in terms of what this can tell us about women's work because I think it's really important to start to get a handle on what is still there floating around in museum files and Learner Society files and we can see a really lovely example of all the stuff that's been waiting for us to take it out on display here today so just a plea for people who are working in museums to start shouting out when you find these letters and other evidence of women in archaeology because it's really important, I mean, discoverability is really vital to the continuation of how we research these women so plug for archives there Felaça Henkin, Felaça Crusoe I wanted to flag up because she was quite young when she was proposed as a fellow of the society but she had done a lot of work she was working partly in the Museum of London as a costume curator and partly as a field archaeologist but you can see in her qualification that she has experienced an excavation at a verilingum, Colchester, and Breeden and she's doing that simultaneously of being a curator in the London Museum and I've pulled out just a quote here of the kind of work she was doing at Colchester which was a dig that was directed in part by Christopher Hawks who was an FSA and there were a lot of women involved in the Colchester dig, it's a very interesting dig and I'll come on to that in the next slide but one of the other things I wanted to point out was that she wrote this costume catalogue as part of her role as the curator in the London Museum and there was a whole series of articles that were published about the production of this costume catalogue in the National Women's Day in 1934 and you can see how it's being written in the girl's catalogue which is like a novel I wouldn't go that far myself but you can see the Lassa Crusoe here in the catalogue dressed in one of the costumes I'm not sure that's good curatorial practice to be perfectly honest but anyway she's dressed in one of the sort of mid-19th century costumes that's featured in the catalogue the catalogue also I should say is an amazing illustration by someone called Marion Thorne I think her name is but they're fantastic and I've been unable to find anything out about this illustrator but maybe in the Museum of London archive somewhere there is more the other thing I wanted to say about the Lassa Crusoe I'm not sure if we'll have time but if we do I'll put it up but she moved to the US and became a very noted garden expert and she started publishing lots and lots of books about gardens she also had a television series about gardens and so if you're interested in seeing the Lassa Crusoe hanging on television you can just put her name into YouTube and you'll see her being interviewed on Johnny Carson in the 1980s and I'll leave that for your enjoyment but it's very interesting and so I mentioned the Colchester Excavations and had a lot of women involved in it and if you look at the publication of the Colchester Excavations which was produced by the Society of Antiquities you can see a very long list of all the women who are involved in the excavation so in the red boxes I put people who became FSAs but there are also lots of other women there and men as well I should just say it wasn't just an excavation peopled by women but there were quite more women by quite a significant number than men but I just wanted to take this opportunity to think about how an excavation like Colchester can show us how the archaeological network kind of worked so we can pull it out and we can see that people from Colchester were working on other sites later on or while the excavations were happening and that also connects us to more FSAs, Dorothy Lodello, Peggy Piggit for example and then I mentioned the Fortan Maggiore Basilica which was published by Nora Dahl if you worked at Colchester and Eugenie Strong in 1924 I know very little about Allison Young but she interested me because she was being proposed in 1944 when you saw that big jump in the number of women who were being proposed in the society and actually she wasn't successful at this stage in 1944 when she was proposed, but she was proposed again in 1952 when she got elected and she was also participating her occupation as stated in the society's blue papers is given as the secretary of the voluntary aid attachment council so she was working the war effort when she was being proposed but obviously she had quite a significant archaeological sort of she had quite significant archaeological work done that's being quoted here so Maiden Castle, Poundbury she also excavated in Scotland and a lot of her publications are through the proceedings of the Society of Edgegrave in Scotland highlight the fact that she was widowed in 1918 so I'm presuming that most of her archaeological work was done after her widowhood, or after her two lots in the First World War and I wanted to end on Dorothy McKay Dorothy McKay is one of the women that I wrote about in my book partly because she was very active in publishing for on archaeological matters so one of the things that she wrote was a guide to the ancient cities of Iraq in 1926 this is when she and her husband Ernest McKay were working in Iraq at Kish and the guide is really interesting and it's I think going to be on display somewhere in the society today and it's really interesting because she basically follows the railway line so it's a guide that's meant to enable people who are in Iraq and this is Iraq at a time of British mandate to navigate their way through the country to find the archaeological sites that were in some cases still being excavated and it's a tourist publication and this interest in tourism continues and one of the other things that is here in the society is a very small pamphlet that she wrote in the 1930s called Mahanjo-Daro and Mahanjo-Daro is a famous Indus Valley site in what's now Pakistan and Dorothy and Ernest McKay were excavating there in the 1930s and this was a guide that was put together specifically for the Indian Railways Publications Office so when I was doing my research for the book on Dorothy McKay and her popular writings I wanted to make sure to include this very small pamphlet and actually the society's copy was given to the society by her so it's a very nice sort of personal pamphlet I'm not entirely sure how widely the pamphlet was circulated but it was part of a series of pamphlets that were produced for the Indian Railways Publications Office so it fitted into a wider series and I didn't know this at the time that I was doing the research for the book but later on in her life she became a wartime curator at the Ashmolean Museum as you can see in her blue paper citation and she also worked after the war and after the death of her husband Beirut in the archaeological museum where she was a curator there and she also wrote a guide which is in the society's collection of the museum in Beirut that I think is all I have yes so thank you very much for listening and I hope this has been applause