TrowelBlazers
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Abbreviation | TB |
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Formation | 2019 |
Type | Learned society |
Purpose | Women archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists |
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Website | trowelblazers |
TrowelBlazers is a project aimed at increasing the representation of women in the fields of archaeology, geology and palaeontology. The project is run by Brenna Hasset, Victoria Herridge, Suzanne Pilaar Birch and Rebecca Wragg Sykes.[1]
Blog
TrowelBlazers began as a blog dedicated to women archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists. As of 2019 the website hosted over 200 biographies.[2] The project originated in a conversation on Twitter, and is noted for utilising a range of digital technologies, including crowdfunding, blogging, digital and print media.[2]
Fossil Hunter Lottie
The TrowelBlazers team co-designed Fossil Hunter Lottie, a palaeontologist doll.[3]
Raising Horizons exhibition
An exhibition of photographs, entitled Raising Horizons, taken by Leonora Saunders showcased the diversity of archaeology and geoscience. The exhibition contained portraits of 14 contemporary female scientists, dressed as their historical counterpart. The exhibition displayed at the Geological Society in 2017 and 2019,[4] the British Science Festival, the University Women's Club, London, the Alexander Keiller Museum and the Women Firsts Reception, UK Parliament.[5]
TrowelBlazers
Trowel-blazing women featured on the website include:
- Isabel Ramírez Castañeda[6]
- Alice Wilson
- Virgínia Rau
- Annie Ure
- Maisie Taylor
- Jane Donald Longstaff
- Madeleine Colani
- Henrietta Drake-Brockman
- Nadezhda Kalugina
- Claire Epstein
- Mary Harfield
- Nicole Boivin
- Lady Eliza D’Oyly Burroughs
- Margaret Wood
- Marguerite Thomas Williams
- M. Louise Baker
- Linda Braidwood
- Glenys Lloyd-Morgan
- Marie Garstang
- Annette Laming
- Peggy Wilson
- Charlotte Roberts
- Titia Brongersma
- Ethel Currie
- Elsie Jury
- Jean Sassoon
- Emily Dix
- Mary “Polly” Winearls Porter
- Camilla Dickson
- Women of the Palestine Exploration Fund
- Dorothy Hill
- Margarete Gütschow
- Sarah Parcak
- Princess Dashkova
- Joanna Sofaer
- Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
- Magdolna Vicze
- Joan Wiffen
- Dame Freya Stark
- Katherine Routledge
- Emily Rayfield
- Bridget Allchin
- Hester Davis
- Gertrude Bell
- Marija Gimbutas
- Dorothy Liddell
- Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- Elaine Morgan
- Frida Avern Leakey
- Kay Behrensmeyer
- Mary Leakey
- Katerina Harvati
- Adrienne Zihlman
- Carol Ward
- Leslie Aiello
- Mabel E. Tomlinson
- Laila Haglund
- Kathy Schick
- Elizabeth Philpot
- Margarethe Lenore Selenka
- Helen Vaughn Michel
- Lisa White
- Hannah Marie Wormington
- Winifred Goldring
- Emilie Haspels
- Christian Maclagan
- Dianne Edwards
- Beatrice de Cardi, OBE
- Constanza Ceruti
- Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert
- Tilly Edinger
- Maud Cunnington
- Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe
- Betty Baume Clark
- Margaret Hems
- Elizabeth Baldwin Garland
- Mary Ann Woodhouse Mantell
- Zelia Nutall
- Olga Tufnell
- Maria Antonina Czaplicka
- Veronica Seton-Williams
- Lucy Allen
- Patty Jo Watson
- Lady Mary Bailey
- Nieves López Martínez
- Elizabeth Anderson Gray
- Isabel McBryde
- Jane Colwell-Danis
- Mary Dawson
- Mary Ross Ellingson
- Lady Aileen Fox
- Tina Negus
- Mihriban Özbaşaran
- Winifred Brunton
- Audrey Williams
- Zonia Baber
- Katharine Woolley
- Anjali Goswami
- Margaret Benson
- Inge Lehmann
- Elisabeth Vrba
- Shahina Farid
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Anne Phillips
- Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
- Mary Horner Lyell
- Annie Pirie Quibell
- Florence Bascom
- Charlotte Murchison
- Amelia Edwards
- Maria Graham
- Agnes Conway Horsfield
- Honor Frost
- Margaret Murray
- Hilda Petrie
- Janet Glassbrook
- Mary Leakey
- Elizabeth Pettigrew
- Margaret McKelvy Bird
- Hildegarde Howard
- Mary Buckland
- Gertrude Caton Thompson
- Isabel Clifton Cookson
- Marie Carmichael Stopes
- Zheng Zhenxiang
- Beth Shapiro
- Ruth Tringham
- Mary Vaux Walcott (Burgess Shale Trowelblazers)
- Helen Walcott (Burgess Shale Trowelblazers)
- Helena Walcott (Burgess Shale Trowelblazers)
- Becca Peixotto
- Hannah Morris
- Alia Gurtov
- Elen Feuerriegel
- Marina Elliott
- Lindsay Eaves
- Dorothy Garrod
- Dorothea Bate
- Kathleen Kenyon
- Gertrude Caton Thompson
- Nina Layard
- Margaret Conkey
- Mary Butler
- Ellen Stofan
- Margaret Ursula Jones
- Molly Cotton
- Mary Kingsley
- Helena of Constantinople
- Alice Kober
- Blaire Van Valkenburgh
- Ufuk Esin
- Jacquetta Hawkes
- Halet Çambel
- Ann Wintle
- Catherine Alice Raisin
- Virginia Grace
- Mary Chubb
- Lady Hester Stanhope
- Marie Tharp
- Emma Reh
- Sally Binford
- Semni Karouzou
- Yusra
- Adela Breton
- Barbara Hastings
- Bertha “Birdie” Parker
- Alice Gorman
- Frederica de Laguna
- Margaret Murray
- Agatha Christie
- Patricia Vinnicombe
- Caroline Birley
- Margaret Rule
- Gudrun Corvinus
- Rosemary Cramp
- Eileen Guppy
- Dorothea Bate
- Cornelia Clermont Cameron
- Mary Anning
- Tatiana Proskouriakoff
- Etheldred Benett
- Gertrude Caton Thompson
- Maria Rita Palombo
- Harriet Boyd Hawes
- Alexandra Jones
- Kathleen Mary Kenyon
- Nina Layard
- Adela Catherine Breton
- Jane Dieulafoy
- Gertrude Bell
- Maeve Leakey
- Dorothy Garrod
References
- ^ "About | TrowelBlazers". Retrieved 2019-09-18.
- ^ a b Cook, Katherine (2019). "EmboDIYing Disruption: Queer, Feminist and Inclusive Digital Archaeologies". European Journal of Archaeology. 22 (3): 398–414. doi:10.1017/eaa.2019.23. ISSN 1461-9571.
- ^ "Fossil Hunter Lottie Doll". Lottie Dolls - UK Store. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
- ^ "The Geological Society of London - Raising Horizons Photography Exhibition". www.geolsoc.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
- ^ "Raising Horizons | About". raisinghorizons.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
- ^ "Articles". TrowelBlazers. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
Further reading
- Wragg-Sykes, B., Herridge, V., Hassett, B. R., & Pilaar-Birch, S. 2013. A Splendid Regiment of Women: 20th century research networks among women scientists in archaeology, geology and palaeontology. In S. Charman-Anderson (Ed.), A Passion For Science. London: Finding Ada Project.
- Hassett, Brenna, Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Victoria Herridge, and Rebecca Wragg Sykes. 2018. TrowelBlazers: accidentally crowdsourcing an archive of women in archaeology. In Shared Knowledge, Shared Power, pp. 129-141. Springer, Cham.
- Hassett, Brenna R., Victoria L. Herridge, Rebecca M. Wragg Sykes, and Suzanne Pilaar Birch. 2019. Activism from the Archives: Changing Narratives to Engage New Communities."In Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century, pp. 399-413. Springer, Cham.