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EES Centenary Awards 2010 Hélène Virenque was awarded a grant from the EES Centenary Awards Fund in 2010 for her project, “A Swiss Egyptologist on Her Majesty’s Service”: Édouard Naville and the Egypt Exploration Fund through his correspondence. In March 2011 Hélène came to London to continue her research in the Society’s Lucy Gura Archive which contains Hélène transcribing Naville’s letters in Naville’s correspondence the EES Lucy Gura Archive (about 200 letters) with the joint Honorary Secretaries of the Egypt Exploration Fund, Amelia Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole. For a full report on Hélène’s visit and research see: www.ees.
Jenny Cromwell was also awarded a Centenary Fund grant in 2010, to study a series of unpublished mainly nonliterary Coptic documents in the University of Copenhagen’s collection. In February Jenny at work in the papyrus collection at 2011 Jenny made Copenhagen University a research visit to Copenhagen to examine the material, make preliminary transcriptions and descriptions of the texts, and obtain high quality scans, so that she can work on them while away from Copenhagen. Jenny’s description of her successful research visit can be read at: www.ees.ac.uk/
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Recent events It is not possible in the limited space available in EA to give full accounts of all EES events and other news from the Society, but news items are posted on our website, www.ees.ac.uk, which we would urge readers to consult regularly for up-to-the-minute news about all EES activities, including our current fieldwork and research. On 9 May 2011 a celebration of the life of Harry James (see EA 36, p.2) was held in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum to mark what would have been Harry’s 85th birthday (on 8 May). From left to right: Mary Crawford (EES Secretary 1963-79), Patricia Spencer, Chris Naunton and Robert Anderson (EES Honorary Secretary from 1971-83). Chris has recently interviewed Robert for the Society’s Oral History Project. For earlier Oral History interviews see: www.youtube.com/user/EgyptExplorSociety. Photograph: Susanne Woodhouse Karen Exell, EES Chair, with EES VicePresident, Nader Matter, Cultural Counsellor at the Egyptian Embassy in London, at the Society’s press event (www.ees.ac.uk/news/index/121.html) on 28 June 2011. Photograph: James Perry
EES Trustee, and member of the EA editorial board, George Hart with Will Carruthers, who is researching the life of Bryan Emery (see EA 36, pp.8-9), working in the Society’s Ricardo Caminos Library
On 14 May 2011 a group of EES members joined our Development Director, Victoria Perry, for a special event in Oxford to show how the Society can benefit from gifts left in wills. The event included a behind-the-scenes tour of the important Oxyrhynchus Papyri Collection, which is owned by the EES but stored and curated at the Sackler Library
The Speakers - Karen Exell, Aidan Dodson, Chris Naunton and Stephen Cross - at the Society’s Study Day on Heresy and Reformation at Amarna and Thebes: new research on Akhenaten and Nefertiti, at The King’s Manor, University of York on 10 September 2011. See: www.ees.ac.uk/news/index/134.html