A The Egypt Centre Event
SpeakerDr Val Billingham
Speaker's BiographyTrustee of the Egypt Exploration Society
From: 13 Sep 2017, 7 p.m.In the winter of 1873-74, Amelia Edwards travelled up the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel, a journey described in her 1876 bestseller, “A Thousand Miles up the Nile”. In this lecture, Val Billingham will draw on Amelia’s own words and on images from the Egypt Exploration Society archive to tell the story of that seminal voyage.
Contact: Wendy Goodridge (Email: w.r.goodridge@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792295960