09 Dec 2004

The Gertrude Bell Project
The Robinson Library, Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Self-description: " [Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) has worked for] British Intelligence during the First World War, later, as a Political Officer, and then as Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner in Baghdad, she became a king-maker in the new state of Iraq, which she had helped to create. [...]
The Gertrude Bell papers consist of about 1,600 detailed and lively letters to her parents, of her 16 diaries, which she kept while she was travelling, and of c. 40 packets of miscellaneous items. There are also about 7000 photographs, taken by her c.1900-1918. Those of Middle Eastern archaeological sites are of great value because they record structures which have since been eroded or, in some cases, have disappeared altogether, while those of the desert tribes are of considerable anthropological and ethnographical interest. The letters and diaries, but not the miscellaneous material, were transcribed in automated form between 1982 and 1988, and a catalogue of the photographs was published in 1982, with a second edition in 1985.
The Gertrude Bell Project: The University of Newcastle upon Tyne Library has undertaken a 4 year project to check and complete the transcription of the manuscripts, to recatalogue and digitise the photographs, and to build a WWW for the finished archive."
Site contents:
* PHOTOS - Album A (Italy, Turkey, Lebanon, West Bank, Syria, Jordan, Israel, 1899-1900, Photos A001-A567); Album B (Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Syria, 1905, Photos B001-B250); Album C (Syria, Turkey, March 1905, Photos C001-C264); Album D (Turkey, 1905, Photos D001-D266); Album E (Italy, Yugoslavia, 1910, Photos E001-E187); Album F (Turkey, 1907, Photos F001-F267); Album G (Turkey, 1907, Photos G001-G262); Album H (Turkey, 1905-1907, Photos H001-H268); Album I (Turkey, 1907, Photos I001-I251); Album J (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, 1909, Photos J001-J251); Album K (Iraq, 1909, Photos K001-K239); Album L (Iraq, 1909, Photos L001-L223); Album M (Iraq, Turkey, 1909, Photos M001-M256); Album N (Turkey, 1909, Photos N001-N220); Album O (Turkey, 1909, Photos O001-O254); Album P (Egypt, Syria, Iraq, 1911, Photos P001-P224); Album Q (Iraq, Iran, 1911, Photos Q001-Q236); Album R (Iraq, Turkey, 1911, Photos R001-R216); Album RTW Volume 1 Round The World (Egypt, India, 1902-1903, Photos RTW Vol 1 001-283); Album RTW Volume 2 Round The World (India, Pakistan, 1903, Photos RTW Vol 2 001a-261); Album RTW Volume 3 Round The World (India, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, 1903, Photos RTW Vol 3 001-250); Album RTW Volume 5 Round The World (Korea, Japan, Canada, 1903 Photos RTW Vol 5 001-211); Album S (Turkey, 1911, Photos S001-S213); Album T (Turkey, Syria, 1911, Photos T001-T216); Album U (Turkey, Syria, 1911, Photos U001-U043); Album V (Iraq, 1917-1918, Photos V001-V137); Album W (Iraq, 1916-1917, Photos W001-W190); Album X (Syria, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Iraq, 1913-1914, Photos X001-X094); Album Y (Syria, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Iraq, 1913- 1914, Photos Y001-Y614).
* DIARIES - Years: 1877, [1878 is forthcoming], 1879, [1880-1892 are forthcoming], 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, [1904 is forthcoming], 1905, [1906 is forthcoming], 1907, [1908 is forthcoming], 1909, [1910 is forthcoming], 1911, [1912 is forthcoming], 1913, 1914, [1915-1918 are forthcoming], 1919.
* LETTERS - Years: 1874, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1886, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926.
* SEARCH THE ARCHIVE.
URL http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30