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Dialogues with the Dead : Egyptology in British Culture and Religion 1822-1922

This book is the product of research undertaken during a PhD and a Leverhulme-funded fellowship. 408 pages long, covering a century it involved analysing extensive archives of individuals and organisations as well as thousands of published sources. It tackles resources from a wide range of disciplines including the history of science, theology, classics, literature, archaeology, philology and popular culture studies. For example, it involved interpreting archival material relating to the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, an inventor of photography, an archbishop of Canterbury, many archaeologists, novelists, poets, artists and composers, and being comfortable in the disciplinary conventions and concepts of each.