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Bodmin, Cornwall and E. A. Wallis Budge

When people read that E. A. Wallis Budge was born as the illegitimate son of a country girl in Bodin, Cornwall, in 1857 they don't...

Iraqis Who Sold Ancient Tablets to the British Museum

Nadia Ghanem of SOAS recently published a very interesting article about Joseph Svoboda, a 19th and early 20th century Iraqi who made a...

"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...

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...

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