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Reading ‘The Cyclades’

Map and title page of Bent’s bestseller on the Cyclades (1885) (archive.org)

Ready soon! Some ‘Cycladist’ friends reading their favourite extracts from Bent’s 1885 classic to celebrate its 140th anniversary in 2025!

Many contributions are already in and if you would like to take part, contact us: info[at]tambent.com

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Author Gerald BrischPosted on 21st May 202513th July 2025Categories General, Greece

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  • The Real “King Solomon’s Mines”, by H. Rider Haggard (1907) 4th September 2025
  • Reading “The Cyclades” – Ios 1st September 2025
  • Reading “The Cyclades” – Marking the 140th anniversary (1885-2025) of a classic travelogue 18th August 2025
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  • A new and rare photo of Theodore Bent appears (Summer 2025) 10th August 2025
  • ‘Ya Mabel’ and the Duchess (Southern Oman) – by Marielle Risse 7th August 2025
  • Santorini: Jen Barclay reads from Theodore Bent’s ‘The Cyclades’ (1885) 6th August 2025
  • An Excavator’s Camp, by J.T. Bent, in the ‘Pall Mall Budget’, 15 December 1892 2nd August 2025
  • Bent’s “The Cyclades”: An anonymous review from the “Pall Mall Budget” of 17 April 1885 29th July 2025
  • Anafi: Margaret Kenna reads from Theodore Bent’s ‘The Cyclades’ (1885) 24th July 2025
  • “The Eastern and Western Review”. The Best Sixpenny Monthly. Diversified–Interesting–Amusing–Instructive 10th June 2025
  • Mabel Bent, Isabella Bird, and Hadji Abdullah the dragoman – Persia, 1889/90 2nd June 2025
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  • Revealed – A second bronze relief plaque of Mabel V.A. Bent by T. Stirling Lee (1895) 3rd October 2024
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  • Happy wedding anniversary, 2021, Theodore and Mabel Bent, from Charlotte Bellingham Wrench 2nd August 2024
  • Citius, Altius, Fortius – The Bents at the Olympics, 1896. 26th July 2024
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  • Tennis anyone? The Hall-Dares at play… 12th July 2024
  • Bagpipes [tsaboúnes] on ‘Clean Monday’ [Kathará Deftéra] in the village of Dío Choriá, Tinos (the Cyclades, Greece) 3rd July 2024
  • 16 June – Bloomsday greetings James, from the Bents 17th June 2024
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  • In the wake of Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1858) 9th May 2024
  • A list of Theodore Bent’s ‘Middle East’ articles/publications. 7th May 2024
  • A list of Theodore Bent’s ‘Africa’ articles/publications (based on today’s borders). 7th May 2024
  • A list of Theodore Bent’s ‘Turkey and Asia Minor’ articles/publications (based on today’s borders). 6th May 2024
  • A list of Theodore Bent’s ‘Greece’ articles/publications (based on today’s borders). 5th May 2024
  • Bent/Carnarvon correspondence – October 1889 24th April 2024
  • Amorgos amigos 17th April 2024
  • Birthday greetings from ‘Kalenzia, on the Isle of Sokotra, 1897’. A ‘lost’ watercolour by Theodore Bent 28th March 2024
  • The Bents’ musical instruments in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 5th February 2024
  • Mabel’s two interviews for ‘Lady of the House’ (September 1893 and July 1894) 27th January 2024
  • Coincidental bedfellows most strange – Balfour, Bent, and Blouet (November 1895) 13th January 2024
  • ‘The Human Unicorn – Mr. Bent’s Interesting Discovery in Lesser Armenia’ (early March 1890) 12th January 2024
  • The Bent-Glaser Correspondence 11th January 2024
  • Mabel and the vanished ‘Bethel Seal’ – a controversy still? 1st January 2024
  • A satirical cartoon, early 19th c., of Mabel Bent’s grandfather, Robert Westley Hall-Dare 29th November 2023
  • The Bent-Hobson maps of the Holy Land, 1912 13th October 2023
  • The skeletal material excavated on Antiparos in 1883/4 by Theodore Bent 1st October 2023
  • Mabel’s Manors – The Essex homes of the Hall-Dares. No. 5: Wyfields, Ilford 12th July 2023
  • BARD versus BENT – A birthday tribute 29th March 2023
  • Textiles from Nisyros (Dodecanese) collected by the Bents in 1885 6th February 2023
  • Mabel Bent – A Cycladic birthday, 28 January 1884 22nd January 2023
  • A stomacher from Astypalaia, once in the Bent collection, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London 6th January 2023
  • ‘Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging…’ New Year, 2023 29th December 2022
  • Mabel’s Manors – The Essex homes of the Hall-Dares. No. 4: Cranbrook, Ilford 19th December 2022
  • The Bents: a rare interview from ‘The Album’, 8th July, 1895 16th December 2022
  • Mabel’s Manors – The Essex homes of the Hall-Dares. No. 3: Ilford Lodge, Ilford 30th November 2022
  • Egon Huber (1905-1960): Austrian designer, ceramicist, and philhellene. 23rd November 2022
  • Mabel’s Manors – The Essex homes of the Hall-Dares. No. 2: East Hall, Wennington 21st November 2022
  • Mabel’s Manors – The Essex homes of the Hall-Dares. No. 1: Fitzwalters 13th November 2022
  • Robert Westley Hall (d. 1834) – Mabel Bent’s great-grandfather 27th October 2022
  • Bent in ‘Black & White’: Introduction 24th August 2022
  • Lindos: The Living City of Homer I – with pictures by Sir Frederic Leighton, P.R.A. 24th August 2022
  • Lindos: The Living City of Homer – II (With pictures by Sir Frederic Leighton, P.R.A.) 24th August 2022
  • A Mercedes, Bents, and St. Paul – with Theodore and Mabel on Crete, April 1885 19th May 2022
  • An index to the Hellenic Society’s digital version of Mabel Bent’s Cyclades ‘Chronicle’ 15th April 2022
  • The Bent Collection Scanned: From the Archive of The Hellenic Society, London: The ‘Chronicles’, etc. 9th February 2022
  • And tonight we have for you… Mr. Theodore Bent! 16th January 2022
  • Mrs Theodore Bent – The Queen of Explorers 11th January 2022
  • The Digitisation of Mabel Bent, her ‘Chronicles’, etc. Christmas 2021 18th December 2021
  • Brand Bent: Two interviews, September & November 1893 7th November 2021
  • Syrna – a squall and its aftermath in the Dodecanese, April 1888 25th October 2021
  • The Kidnap and Travels of the Karpathos Lady 24th June 2021
  • Of Crows and Swans and Calamine – the Archaeology Theatre of Antiparos 7th April 2021
  • Of Pyramids and Picnics – Theodore, Mabel, the Owl and the Pussycat 31st March 2021
  • The lost reviews of ‘Southern Arabia’ (1900), by Mabel and Theodore Bent 9th March 2021
  • Mabel’s Museum – 13 Great Cumberland Place, London, W1 1st March 2021
  • “A Week on Wheels in East Anglia” – Bent gets on his bike 11th February 2021
  • In and out (just about) of the Wadi Hadramawt – Mabel of Arabia 1st February 2021
  • On the Far-off Island of Karpathos – 1885 4th January 2021
  • And in 1893, Abyssinia’s Aksum (with its obelisks) and the ‘Lioness of Gobedra’ enticed them too…    22nd December 2020
  • An archaeological view of the stay of the Bents on the Carian Chersonese 29th October 2020
  • Christopher J. F. A. Struve and Mabel Bent’s grandmother: a long, long way for a plate of butter 27th October 2020
  • The Bents and the British Museum: in Five Objects 13th October 2020
  • Mabel Bent: A rare photograph attributed 22nd September 2020
  • The Bents – Great Friends of Kastellorizo 7th September 2020
  • Outrage in the Hadhramaut in 1894… and subsequent revenge 18th August 2020
  • Mabel Bent and the first First Lady… 10th July 2020
  • Well-known travel writers take to the Bents… 13th June 2020
  • In exalted female company – Mabel Bent, other women travellers, and the RGS women Fellows scandal of 1893 31st May 2020
  • ‘In the Footsteps of Theodore and Mabel’ – Jennifer Barclay, May 2020 18th May 2020
  • ‘Few who see Mrs. Theodore Bent for the first time…’ says Vincent B. Weeks 29th March 2020
  • Reunited – well on Wikipedia anyway! 10th March 2020
  • Mabel’s three grand Irish homes, still in good hands! 18th February 2020
  • Two unpublished letters from Theodore Bent to William Paton – 1890 6th January 2020
  • No “no rooz” for the Bents – well, maybe one 1st January 2020
  • Lear, Bent & Tozer 27th December 2019
  • ‘Theodore Bent’s Turkish embroidery bequest’ – The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston 22nd December 2019
  • Mabel Bent and Gertrude Bell – two B’s in a pod 6th December 2019
  • A bookplate without a book… 27th November 2019
  • Love in the Levant – archaeologist William Paton’s encounter with a Greek goddess – Kalymnos, 1885 29th September 2019
  • Mabel, Theodore, and Thomas Cook & Son 28th August 2019
  • VIDEO – Manolis Pelekis: A lament for the great tsabouna player from Anafi 22nd August 2019
  • The legend of Kyra Panagia and the tragic story of the hermit monk Vasilis 8th August 2019
  • Friedrich v. Vincenz assists Mabel Bent on Tilos in the Dodecanese: ‘All the women here are terrified at the idea of being photographed and my camera is rather a “white elephant”!’ 24th July 2019
  • 90th anniversary of the death of Mabel Bent – 3 July 1929 15th July 2019
  • Mabel tours the wards – The English Hospital, Jaffa, 1909 11th May 2019
  • RIP: Death of a noted Baildonian – Theodore Bent, 5 May 1897 5th May 2019
  • The Bents at Easter In Amorgos – 1883 28th April 2019
  • ‘Baildon House’, Baildon, West Yorkshire, UK – Theodore Bent’s childhood home 11th April 2019
  • The Bents and thoughts of and for Beira, March 2019 19th March 2019
  • Mortimer Wheeler follows Theodore Bent to Great Zimbabwe, 1958 23rd February 2019
  • Mabel – with thoughts of diamonds on the soles of her shoes 14th February 2019
  • Greek Dress at the Hellenic Centre, London – 4 February until 2 March 2014 – with Bent references! 10th February 2019
  • The ‘Syra British Cemetery’ – Syros 3rd February 2019
  • People come and go: to the memory of the kind William Pryor Binney, H.B.M. Consul on Syros and friend to the Bents 1st February 2019
  • Matthaios Simos – Anafiot dragoman extraordinaire! 18th January 2019
  • Mabel and the Virtue of Patience 11th January 2019
  • Over the rainbow with the Bents 6th January 2019
  • Gold, Frankincense, and Mabel – The Bents at Christmas 21st December 2018
  • Mabel Hall-Dare: Chronicles of Mrs. Theodore Bent… reviewed by Janeite Kelly (Dec 2018) 19th December 2018
  • ‘Mabel was I ere I saw Olba’: 1 – Around Athenian tables, February 1890 11th December 2018
  • The Bents – Great Friends of Samos 16th November 2018
  • The Bents – Great Friends of Tilos 7th November 2018
  • Meet Mabel’s Mother – Frances Anna Catherine Hall-Dare (née Lambart). 27th August 2018
  • Theodore and the Tsabouna accompanied by Yannis Pantazis of Santorini (video) 11th August 2018
  • Happy Wedding Anniversary, Theodore and Mabel – 2nd August 1877 2nd August 2018
  • ‘Mrs Bent and her Camera. Photo by Russell & Sons, London, pre 1895’ 23rd July 2018
  • The Bents’ hotels – the ‘Grand Hôtel d’Angleterre’, Ermoúpoli (Sýros) 7th July 2018
  • The Bents’ Fleet: vessels travelled on in the Levant, Africa, and Arabia by Theodore and Mabel Bent, c. 1880-1900 7th July 2018
  • Mabel’s parasol for a splint: A broken leg in the desert 1st July 2018
  • Incidentally V: Margaret Kenna, and the Bents on Anáfi in 1884 – ‘Kalamiotissa’ 5th June 2018
  • Incidentally IV: Margaret Kenna, and the Bents on Anáfi in 1884 – ‘Kastelli’ 14th May 2018
  • Incidentally III: Margaret Kenna, and the Bents on Anáfi in 1884 – Some costumes 26th April 2018
  • Incidentally II: Margaret Kenna, and the Bents on Anáfi in 1884 – Antiquities and Inscriptions 9th April 2018
  • Incidentally I: Margaret Kenna, and the Bents on Anáfi in 1884 – Adventures getting to, and leaving 15th March 2018
  • Spring thoughts of the Bents on Anafi 12th March 2018
  • ‘A traveller without a map……’ 1st February 2018
  • Many happy returns Mabel on your birthday today (28 January)! 28th January 2018
  • Papers say: Lost Oil Portrait Of Theodore Bent Discovered! Now Read On…. 24th January 2018
  • ‘My dear People’ – A Hall-Dare Pedigree and Photograph Album 5th January 2018
  • Bent’s Last Christmas – 1896, Sokotra 21st December 2017
  • ‘My baby eyes first looked out on an extremely beautiful bit of this world…’ 10th December 2017
  • Zimbabwe: The Bents in Harare (Fort Salisbury) and around, September 1891 27th November 2017
  • Woodcock, mizithra, and other culinary delights on the move 4th November 2017
  • The Essential Bents: A beginners’ guide to Theodore and Mabel Bent! 2nd November 2017
  • Mabel’s Menus: the culinary notes of an archaeologist (1880-1900) 16th October 2017
  • New Archaeopress blog post features the Bents 21st August 2017
  • Mabel’s Chronicles: April 3rd 1885 (Easter) – Karpathos 3rd April 2017
  • Mabel’s Chronicles: January 23rd 1884 – Ios 23rd January 2017
  • Mabel’s Chronicles: December 25th 1883 – Naxos 18th December 2016
  • Mabel’s Chronicles: December 1st 1883 – Syra (Syros) 1st December 2016
  • Mabel’s Chronicles: November 26th 1883 – Athens 26th November 2016
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    • obituaries
    • Mabel alone – after Theodore’s death
  • explorations
    • interactive maps of Theodore and Mabel’s explorations
    • the Bents’ collections
    • the Italian explorations
    • the Greek and Eastern Mediterranean explorations
    • the African explorations
    • the Arabian and Persian explorations
  • chronicles & letters
    • background to Mabel’s Chronicles
    • extracts from Mabel’s Chronicles
    • background to Mabel’s letters
    • extracts from Mabel’s letters
  • books etc
    • books, ebooks and audio
    • bibliography
  • discovery
    • the Bent memorial bench
    • the Bent blue plaque
    • the documentary
    • Bent field-agents
    • Bent tour-guides
  • articles
    • article themes
      • Africa
      • Arabia
      • Bent bench
      • biographical
      • costumes
      • general
      • Greece
      • homes and gardens
      • hotels
      • Italy
      • Mabel’s chronicles
      • Mabel’s letters
      • Mabel’s menus
      • Music
      • photography
      • rediscovery
      • ships
      • travel writers on the Bents
      • Turkey
      • video
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