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The Perverse Appeal of Anti-Heroes

Why do some people seek straightforward narratives that present heroes they can admire, while others (like me) are drawn to ambiguous...

"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...

"Forward" to Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo

Please enjoy the "Forward" to my biography, Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo (Dost Publishing, 2021). On November 28th...

Writing 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...

Writing Wallis Budge

I 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...

E. A. Wallis Budge's Victorian Life: Living the Great Novel

For many years, beginning when I was a teenager, I loved to read Victorian novels. I especially liked long and sprawling works in which...

Egyptology and Imperialism

While standard histories of Egyptology tend to focus on the development of "scientific" Egyptology and its methods and institutions in...

Wallis Budge: A New Edition 10 Years Later

Ten years ago, in 2011, after years of research and writing, I published Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo with the...

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