Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations isn’t the first biography of the singular archaeologist, spy, poet, mountaineer, and Arabist who helped map the borders and choose the first ...

Before ancient Mesopotamia was transformed into 20th-century Iraq, the extraordinary British diplomat, mountaineer, archaeologist and spy Gertrude Bell was working to carve up the Middle East into ...

Englishwoman Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), like a good diamond, had many facets: scholar, poet, linguist, mountaineer, archaeologist. She was the first woman to win a first in modern history ...

Gertrude Bell is the sort of subject who requires both burdens to be carried well. A virago, she was an Edwardian Great Explorer of the stamp history usually records and lauds in men.

Explorer and activist Bell is best remembered today for helping create the modern state of Iraq. A smartly edited new collection of her writings presents a fascinating (if not always smooth) portrait.

Gertrude Bell - "The most powerful woman in the British Empire" The conservative historian David Pryce-Jones says that “those who marched in European capitals to demonstrate against the war with ...

Seven digital comics have been created about the exploits of Gertrude Bell, mountaineer, archaeologist, adventurer and Arab culture expert. Comments. Tony Henderson. 13:00, 25 Apr 2017.

This piece was published on 21 February, 2014. 12 July, 2016 marks 90 years since the death of Gertrude Bell. As grand reopenings go, it may prove to be a somewhat low-key affair. A decade after ...

Kitty Fitzgerald explores the achievements of Gertrude Bell, and archaeologist, army intelligence officer and mountaineer who created the controversial map of modern Iraq in 1921.

Gertrude Bell, explorer, archeologist, diplomat, linguist, writer and spy was no ordinary woman. ... she went on to become a groundbreaking mountaineer and have a Swiss peak named after her.

Gertrude Bell was a linguist, archaeologist fascinated by Arab culture, and a renowned mountaineer Also a spy for British intelligence, she took these photos while on holiday in 1902, when she was ...

The Red Barns pub and hotel in Kirkleatham Street, Redcar, was once the family home of Gertrude Bell - the remarkable mountaineer, archaeologist, linguist and traveller who was one of the first ...