British Museum

MEB was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand...

She wrote this while living in John Chapman 's house in London and reading Egyptology in the British Museum . She paid fifty pounds to secure its publication.

BH did research for this novel in the British Museum , with help from a reverend librarian, whom I have the honour to call my friend. It was later sometimes referred to as Catherine the...

Before writing the novel, DDM employed research assistants in London to send her information from the British Museum and the Public Record Office s. She studied letters, newspapers, and diaries of the period (Clarke's activities...

In Lambaréné Kingsley began her pursuit of fish and fetish in earnest. The fish and other flora and fauna which she collected were intended for the British Museum , while by fetish she meant the...

AA enjoyed unusual acceptance into traditionally masculine circles including learned societies, as a result of her father's involvement in (especially) the British Museum and the Royal Society . She became a pioneer in the field...

While living in London she often studied at the British Museum .

TG spent most of his life as a don at Cambridge, first at Peterhouse and latterly at Pembroke Hall . Though satirical poems suggest that he hated Cambridge, he left it only for holiday trips...

She worked regularly in the British Museum (on those resources which are now devolved to the British Library ).

The relevant clause in his will states: I leave all my manuscripts to Harriet Shaw Weaver and direct that she have sole decision in all literary matters relating to my writings published and unpublished.

After the war, MS got an editorial job on the Argentor, the quarterly trade magazine of the National Jewellers' Association . The work involved writing, editing, proof-reading, and research on jewellery at the College of Heralds

FS worked as a research assistant to Margaret Jourdain at the British Museum .

In 1891 LAM took her fish paintings to Albert Charles Günther , the British Museum ichthyologist. He admired them, but to her annoyance proclaimed them unsound scientific records because, although beautiful and correct, for scientific...

She also taught at London University, and became a Fellow of University College, London , in 1910. At this stage her research focussed on paleobotany, the study of fossil plants. (Her work in the field...

HM gave a lecture at the British Museum in a series organized by the London Review of Books, as Undressing Anne Boleyn (printed in the same journal on 21 February as Royal Bodies).