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Sep 30, 2020 · Bell was the only woman working for the British government in the Middle East. She worked with T.E. Lawrence, perhaps better known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” in the Arab Bureau during World War ...
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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.
Nov 3, 2020 · Gertrude Bell became a crucial figure in the British Empire, a well-known traveller as well as writer, her in-depth knowledge of the Middle East proved to be her making. Such was the scope of her influence, particularly in modern-day Iraq, that she was known to be “one of the few representatives of His Majesty’s Government remembered by the Arabs with anything resembling affection”.
Jan 30, 2014 · An archaeologist, writer and explorer, Gertrude Bell spent the early 1900s travelling alone across the Middle East.
Jackson M. P. and Parkin A. (eds.), 2015, The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell, Tyne Bridge Publishing (opens a pdf file): click here. See especially chapter 7, Mark Jackson and Emma Short: Gertrude Bell and the First World War. Paris, T.J. (1998) ZBritish Middle East policy-making after the First World War:
May 22, 2016 · Stark’s journeys to the Middle East began in 1927, when she travelled to Beirut, making her way to Baghdad, in the Mandate of Iraq, and by 1931 western Iran, reaching the long-fabled mountain ...
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Oct 26, 2023 · A major new exhibition examines the pioneering explorations of Gertrude Bell in the Middle East, and the political legacy of her activities in the region. The traveller, archaeologist, photographer, writer, and political officer documented the ethnic, tribal and religious diversity of Mesopotamia through her pictures and writings.
