British Museum

JEH began her lecturing career by giving conducted tours of the British Museum 's Greek art collections.

BE , needing money to support herself and her children, worked as a library officer in the British Museum (where the British Library was then housed) in London.

For Kingsley's voyage the following year on behalf of the British Museum , Günther commissioned her to collect freshwater fish from the region between the Niger and Congo rivers, and he arranged for her to...

After finishing her degree course at Girton College , Dora Black (later Russell ) studied French, and eighteenth-century French literature in particular, at University College, London . She did her work mainly in the British Museum

In LondonJEH was free to explore those aspects of Greek culture not covered by her degree, especially Greek art. A mentor, colleague, and friend in her research was Charles Newton , Keeper of...

She then attended a number of schools: a boarding establishment at Newbury in Berkshire between 1876 and 1877 (run by the Misses Godwin), a school in Paris from 1880 to 1881 (she was fluent in...

In Baghdad she studied Persian, Arabic, the Koran, and other aspects of Islamic culture, and once back from this expedition she spent much time studying the history of Middle Eastern cults at the British Museum .

She was later a freelance research student at both the Public Record Office and the British Museum .

MK began to study under Albert Karl Günther , Keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum and specialist in the study of fish and reptiles.

Elizabeth and AS were studying history and palaeography (early handwriting) in the British Museum .

Margaret's father's house was crammed with books, selected by taste not by method. He seems to have felt it not only natural but satisfactory when the little girls pursued their own studies among the books...

Eliza Lynn spent her first year in London reading in the British Museum and writing.

While in Germany, she learned German and developed an appreciation of German arts which informs her later writings. (She also taught herself Russian while living with her sister in the Baltics.) Staying in...

She dedicated the novel to her friend Alice Herbert (wife of Jack Herbert , Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum ), who introduced Evelyn Underhill to the treasure trove of medieval manuscripts in his keeping.

The onset of her final illness followed on long hours of work in the British Museum , where she was assembling the fifth volume of Sacred and Legendary Art, and a walk home in a snowstorm.