Watch Letters From Baghdad on Amazon or iTunes! I worked on the film watching/logging film from archives around the world. The final digitization/restoration is GORGEOUS. Learn about modern Iraq through the voice of Tilda Swinton as Gertrude Bell amzn.to/2LtkzCg

Old newsreel footage is often used in the movies we see today. Footage of people rowing along the Tigris River in Baghdad in the early 1900s opens Letters From Baghdad, a recent NEH-funded PBS film narrated by Oscar winner Tilda Swinton. #Oscars neh.gov/article/newsre…

In love with Mount Grace Priory English Heritage and found my calling as a Carthusian monk. Can’t wait to explore Charterhouse right next to @YSULondon soon. Inspired by Gertrude Bell and would love to see more about her. Really enjoyed Letters from Baghdad Letters From Baghdad.

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London plaque honours North East-born "Queen of the desert" chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas… Newcastle University English Heritage Great North Museum: Hancock Letters From Baghdad NT Wallington

Thrilled to announce our new doc film project ‘Obsessed with Light.’The story of another extraordinary woman! Loie Fuller, the American dancer, who ignited a revolution in the art world at the Folies Bergère in turn of 20th century Paris. Please follow our journey @lightobsessed

"Years of Hope...Years of Courage See the Rose Parade Float Honoring the Woman Suffrage Centennial (Monumental Women Board Member Coline Jenkins is riding on that beautiful float). youtu.be/r0nDCUcA8X8

April 15: Edhem Eldem will talk British Museum on Ottoman state and local perspectives around 19th century archaeology in Turkey and Greece britishmuseum.org/events/lord-el…

Loie Fuller in the dance The Archangel Koloman Moser 1868-1918 Austrian Artist

Beautiful photograph!

Thrilled to announce @NEH Media Productions Grant award for our new doc film @LightObsessed abt performance artist Loïe Fuller! We are so grateful for their support for telling the stories of brilliant women Gertrude Bell & Loïe Fuller! #Dance #modernism #Documentary #History

Thank you to the no thank you for supporting our work to tell these important stories!

19th Amendment was ratified a hundred years ago today, as reported by New York Times:

The 19th Amendment was ratified 100 years ago today. It is sometimes described as having “given” women the right to vote—but in fact, it was a hard-won victory on the part of suffragists who’d been agitating for more than 70 years. nyer.cm/zDS0jDL

Congratulations to our advisor @priyasatia on her fascinating new book, 'Time's Monster: How History Makes History.' Dr. Satia is The Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of British History at Stanford.

Letters from Baghdad is now streaming on PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel - the new PBS channel dedicated to documentaries available at amzn.to/3k9hGrf

"Leaving a legacy and thumbprint can be achieved by documenting inaccessible historical images and videos. See, shoot, and store; full stop." beautiful photography and fascinating insight by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin #iraq #mesopotamia #photography asor.org/anetoday/2020/…

Join LFB directors Zeva Oelbaum & Sabine Krayenbühl Feb 16 8pm EST on their new doc film subject #LoïeFuller & her collaboration w/ #MarieCurie w/ Liz Heinecke @KitchPantrySci , author of 'Radiant: The Dancer, The Scientist, & a Friendship Forged in Light' eventbrite.com/e/liz-heinecke…

#OnThisDay in 1921 #GertrudeBell was aboard ship in the Red Sea on the final stages of her journey from Baghdad to the Cairo Conference, travelling by train, river boat & ship via Basrah, Muscat and Aden. Bell, #WinstonChurchill & #TELawrence were key players

Good news! You can now stream "Letters from Baghdad" directly on our Vimeo OTT site: lettersfrombaghdad.vhx.tv