Category: Research
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Deliberate Disconnections: Narratives And Display In The Palestine Archaeological Museum In The 1920s
I wrote a blog for the Museums and Galleries history Group blog competition, for which I was awarded a runner up prize. This blog explores my PhD research on the Palestine Archaeological Museum in the Mandate era. It considers the ways in which the museum displays were used to construct historical narratives which appropriated the…
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Latest Article
My New article “No Wonder That on This Spot God Spoke to Us”: Intersection of Anglican Tourist-Pilgrims and Archaeology in British Mandate Palestine is now online at Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies 10, pp. 42–67 DOI: https://doi.org/10.24847/v10i22023.361
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University of Greenwich History Podcast
June 2021 Four History PhD researchers explore some of the methodological and histographical issues facing contemporary historians. Taking as the stepping off point the consequences in the present of a time traveller crushing a cretaceous era butterfly, in essence what we are all asking ourselves is how do we identify the “big roar or the little…
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Visualising Colonial Hierarchies in Images of Archaeology in Mandate Palestine
I have a new blog up on H-Net Empire here , exploring the colonial hierarchies in archaeology via photographs. Work in progress at Ain Shems (Beth Shemesh) source
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Antiquities in Palestine as Post War Propaganda
My guest post on the University of Kent’s ‘Munitions of the Mind’ blog – is available here. Image Credit: GE Matson, “H.S. in Askalon, Sept. 10, 1920” The American Colony, Jerusalem. Licence: CC BY 2.0
Chloe Emmott 