Amara ThorntonAmara Thornton is an Honorary Research Associate at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and a historian of archaeology. Her PhD explored the social history of British archaeologists working in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East between 1870 and 139. Amara held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2013 to 2016, has been Coordinator of the Institute’s History of Archaeology Network since 2010, and is Principal Investigator of Filming Antiquity, a digitisation and research project for historic archaeology footage from the 1930s-1950s. She blogs on her research at www.readingroomnotes.com. Read More Read Less