The BIRI Digital Coordination and Strategy project is proud to present ‘Women Transcending Boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes’.

Explore our interactive StoryMap to learn about the interconnected lives and ground-breaking work of women archaeologists such as Eugénie Sellers Strong, Winifred Lamb, Yusra Al-Ḥaifawiyah and Kathleen Kenyon.

From Rome to Ankara, from the Peloponnese to the Levant, we chart these women’s professional achievements, archaeological discoveries and the vibrant networks they formed in a male-dominated field.

Created by BIRI archivists and researchers drawing on material held in the British International Research Institutes’ (BIRI) archives.

Supported by the British Academy-funded BIRI Digital Coordination and Strategy project.