ismailmatthewAug 23, 20221 minIraqis Who Sold Ancient Tablets to the British MuseumNadia Ghanem of SOAS recently published a very interesting article about Joseph Svoboda, a 19th and early 20th century Iraqi who made a...
ismailmatthewAug 15, 20221 min"From Bastard to Knight of the Realm: The Spectacular Success Story of Sir Ernest Wallis Budge"The anthropologist, African traveler, and writer Geoffrey Clarfield recently published an excellent article on Wallis Budge: Magic and...
ismailmatthewApr 27, 20223 minWriting Biography: For or Against Budge?One of the odd questions I often got when writing about E. A. Wallis Budge was, "Are you for or against Budge?" This question always left...
ismailmatthewApr 18, 20222 minWriting Wallis BudgeI wrote Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo, in my own time, since I was not an academic and writing books was not part...
ismailmatthewFeb 1, 20225 minE. A. Wallis Budge's Victorian Life: Living the Great NovelFor many years, beginning when I was a teenager, I loved to read Victorian novels. I especially liked long and sprawling works in which...