We’re periodically releasing extracts from Mabel’s Chronicles in our blog posts. If you would like to become a Bentophile, you can follow us on Facebook, Twitter or via email, and receive notification as new material from the Chronicles is published. Don’t forget to read the background story of the Chronicles if you’ve not already done so.
The following blog posts contain extracts from Mabel’s Chronicles:
- Birthday greetings from ‘Kalenzia, on the Isle of Sokotra, 1897’. A ‘lost’ watercolour by Theodore Bent
- The skeletal material excavated on Antiparos in 1883/4 by Theodore Bent
- Textiles from Nisyros (Dodecanese) collected by the Bents in 1885
- Mabel Bent – A Cycladic birthday, 28 January 1884
- A stomacher from Astypalaia, once in the Bent collection, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- A Mercedes, Bents, and St. Paul – with Theodore and Mabel on Crete, April 1885
- An index to the Hellenic Society’s digital version of Mabel Bent’s Cyclades diary
- The Bent Collection Scanned: From the Archive of The Hellenic Society, London
- And tonight we have for you… Mr. Theodore Bent!
- Mrs Theodore Bent – The Queen of Explorers
- The Digitisation of Mabel Bent, Christmas 2021
- Brand Bent: Two interviews, September & November 1893
- Syrna – a squall and its aftermath in the Dodecanese, April 1888
- The Kidnap and Travels of the Karpathos Lady
- Of Crows and Swans and Calamine – the Archaeology Theatre of Antiparos
- The lost reviews of ‘Southern Arabia’ (1900), by Mabel and Theodore Bent
- Mabel’s Museum – 13 Great Cumberland Place, London, W1
- In and out (just about) of the Wadi Hadramawt – Mabel of Arabia
- The Bents and the Raj
- On the Far-off Island of Karpathos – 1885
- An archaeological view of the stay of the Bents on the Carian Chersonese
- The Bents and the British Museum: in Five Objects
- The Bents – Great Friends of Kastellorizo
- Outrage in the Hadhramaut in 1894… and subsequent revenge
- Two unpublished letters from Theodore Bent to William Paton – 1890
- No “no rooz” for the Bents – well, maybe one
- ‘Theodore Bent’s Turkish embroidery bequest’ – The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
- Love in the Levant – archaeologist William Paton’s encounter with a Greek goddess – Kalymnos, 1885
- Mabel, Theodore, and Thomas Cook & Son
- VIDEO – Manolis Pelekis: A lament for the great tsabouna player from Anafi
- The legend of Kyra Panagia and the tragic story of the hermit monk Vasilis
- Death of a noted Baildonian – Theodore Bent, 5 May 1897
- The Bents at Easter In Amorgos – 1883
- The Bents and thoughts of and for Beira, March 2019
- Mabel – with thoughts of diamonds on the soles of her shoes
- People come and go: to the memory of the kind William Pryor Binney, H.B.M. Consul on Syros and friend to the Bents
- Over the rainbow with the Bents
- Gold, Frankincense, and Mabel – The Bents at Christmas
- Mabel Hall-Dare: Chronicles of Mrs. Theodore Bent… reviewed by Janeite Kelly (Dec 2018)
- The Bents – Great Friends of Samos
- The Bents – Great Friends of Tilos
- Theodore and the Tsabouna (video)
- The Bents’ Fleet: vessels travelled on in the Levant, Africa, and Arabia by Theodore and Mabel Bent, c. 1880-1900
- Mabel’s parasol for a splint: A broken leg in the desert
- Many happy returns Mabel on your birthday today (28 January)!
- Bent’s Last Christmas – 1896, Sokotra
- Zimbabwe: The Bents in Harare (Fort Salisbury) and around, September 1891
- Mabel’s Menus: the culinary notes of an archaeologist (1880-1900)
- Mabel’s Chronicles: April 3rd 1885 (Easter) – Karpathos
- Mabel’s Chronicles: January 23rd 1884 – Ios
- Mabel’s Chronicles: December 25th 1883 – Naxos
- Mabel’s Chronicles: December 1st 1883 – Syra (Syros)
- Mabel’s Chronicles: November 26th 1883 – Athens