Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk on Egyptologist Mary Brodrick (1858-1933) by Rosalind Janssen.

4 November (6-7.15pm) at Senate House Library:

Brodrick, a pioneer Egyptologist and keen geographer, spent most of her life in Egypt associating with the likes of Cromer and Kitchener and playing some part in British colonial rule. The culmination was when she travelled in state from Wadi Halfa to Khartoum and back, taking the salute at the annual Gordon Memorial Service. She was the first woman lecturer at the British Museum. On her death she bequeathed part of her library to College Hall, Bloomsbury and her personal collection of antiquities to the Petrie Museum.

Rosalind Janssen is Honorary Lecturer in Education at UCL’s Institute of Education. An Egyptologist by profession, she was previously a Curator at UCL’s Petrie Museum, and then a Lecturer in Egyptology at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology. She has a special interest in the History of Egyptology and has published widely on the subject. Rosalind currently teaches Egyptology classes at the City Lit and for Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education.

Further information and to register: 04 NOVEMBER: MARY BRODRICK: PIONEER EGYPTOLOGIST: ROSALIND JANSSEN – Pascal Theatre Company (pascal-theatre.com)

or email: events@pascal-theatre.com

This talk forms part of Pascal Theatre Company’s Lottery Heritage Funded project: Women for Women: 19th century women in Bloomsbury: WOMEN FOR WOMEN – Pascal Theatre Company (pascal-theatre.com)

image credit: Mary Brodrick; Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Brodrick_Egyptologist.jpg