Winifred Lamb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gill, David W. J., author.

Series:

Archaeological Lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeologists--Biography.

Archaeologists.

Museum curators--Biography.

Museum curators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Winifred Lamb

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2018.

Summary:

The first comprehensive biography of pioneering archaeologist and museum curator Winnifred Lamb, who was honorary keeper of Greek antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in the four decades immediately following the First World War.

Contents:

Introduction ; Chapter 1: The Lamb Family and Early Years ; Chapter 2: Cambridge and Classics ; Chapter 3: The Hope Vases and Naval Intelligence ; Chapter 4: The First Year in Athens (1920-21) ; Chapter 5: Prehistory and the Fitzwilliam Museum ; Chapter 6: Mycenae, Sparta and Macedonia ; Chapter 7: The Fitzwilliam Museum: Developing the Classical Collections ; Chapter 8: The Eastern Aegean: Lesbos and Chios ; Chapter 9: Anatolia and Kusura ; Chapter 10: The War Years ; Chapter 11: The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara ; Bibliography ; Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781784918804

1784918806

OCLC:

1255228264