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  • 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
  • The skeletal material excavated on Antiparos in 1883/4 by Theodore Bent 19th 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 diary 15th April 2022
  • The Bent Collection Scanned: From the Archive of The Hellenic Society, London 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, 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
  • Citius, Altius, Fortius – The Bents at the Olympics, 1896. 28th July 2021
  • Tennis anyone? The Hall-Dares at play… 2nd July 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
  • The Bents and the Raj 19th January 2021
  • On the Far-off Island of Karpathos – 1885 4th January 2021
  • And in 1893, Abyssinia’s Aksum 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 company – Mabel Bent and other ‘Tatler’ travellers, 1910 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
  • Happy wedding anniversary, 2021, Theodore and Mabel Bent, from Charlotte Bellingham Wrench 2nd 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
  • 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
  • Birthday greetings from ‘Kalenzia, on the Isle of Sokotra, 1897’. A ‘lost’ watercolour by Theodore Bent 28th March 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 (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, probably Spring, 1895’ 23rd July 2018
  • The Bents’ hotels – the ‘Grand Hôtel d’Angleterre’, Ermoúpoli (Sýros) 7th July 2018
  • The Bents’ Fleet 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 – My style rocks? 26th April 2018
  • Incidentally II: Margaret Kenna, and the Bents on Anáfi in 1884 – Antiquities and Inscriptions 9th April 2018
  • Many happy returns Theodore – born 30 March 1852 27th March 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
  • Mabel and the vanished ‘Bethel Seal’ – a controversy still? 6th November 2017
  • Woodcock and mizithra 4th November 2017
  • At last! The Bents in three easy steps! 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
  • home
  • bio
    • biography
    • photo album
    • family homes
    • en voyage
      • hotels
      • ships
    • through their eyes
      • Theodore’s sketches
      • Mabel’s photographs
    • 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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