Two collections from the Faculty Archives, the photographs of archaeologists Richard Norton and Richard Goodchild in Libya, and notebooks of Victorian architect J. H. Middleton, have been digitised and are available to view on the Cambridge University Digital Library.
A gift from the family of Professor Joyce Reynolds - Drs Greg and Dagmar Reynolds - has enabled the Faculty Classics Archives to digitise two significant collections which are associated with epigraphy, to facilitate wider enjoyment and study of this material in her memory via the Cambridge University Digital Library.
Decoding the Desert features the photographs of two archaeologists: Richard Norton at Cyrene in 1910-1911 and Richard Goodchild, who documented the monuments of Roman Libya from the Second World War until his death in 1968.
Middleton’s Architectural Odysseys showcase seven travel journals created by John Henry Middleton during the 1870s-1890s. Measured drawings, and more informal sketches, document his studies of Classical monuments in Athens and further afield in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Middleton, an architect, art historian and antiquarian, had many connections with Cambridge as Slade Professor of Fine Art, a Fellow of King’s College, and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, before moving to London to become Director of the institution that became known as the Victoria and Albert Museum.