Scholar · Cataloguer
Anna Holly Reeve
fl. 2013–2025 · United Kingdom
British scholar and cataloguer, active 2013–2025. Worked with Katherine Baxter; wrote with Thomas Kiely and Lindy Crewe.
Life and work
- November 2013Paper on T. B. Sandwith and the Leeds City Museum's ancient Cypriot collection given at the PoCA conference at UEA (Norwich, 1-3 November 2013); published 2016 in Maguire and Chick (eds), Approaching Cyprus, Cambridge Scholars, pp. 277-290.
NorwichReeve 2016, pp. 277-290
- 2020Published 'The archaeological activities of the Scott-Stevensons in Cyprus, 1878-1883' (Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 30(1)), and 'Following object itineraries: recontextualising antiquities from Classical Cyprus' (Graz conference 21-23 Sept 2017; Holzhausen, pp. 109-123).
- 2021PhD thesis 'Ancient Cyprus in Leeds: objects, networks and museums from 1870 to 1947' (University of Leeds): classifies the Leeds Museums and Galleries Cypriot collection and traces its acquisition itineraries: Consul Sandwith's collection and John Holmes's promotion of it (1870-90), the BM donation from the Enkomi and Klavdhia-Tremithos excavations (1890-1910), the Bodington (1913) and Stott (1920) donations, and the 1920s purchase from the British Empire Exhibition (William Bevan).
LeedsReeve 2021
- 2025Co-editor, with Thomas Kiely and Lindy Crewe, of Empire and Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, from a conference she co-organised; she also contributes a chapter on Cyprus and its antiquities at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-1925.
Connections
6 peopleScholarship
- Student of Thomas Kiely2013–2021
- Published material of Thomas Backhouse Sandwith2016–2021
- Wrote with Sally Waiteprobably2020
- Published material of John Holmes2021
- Wrote with Lindy Crewe2025
- Wrote with Thomas Kiely2025
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Katherine Baxter2021
On Ancient Cyprus
1 pageSources
- 1.Anna Holly Reeve (2021). “Ancient Cyprus in Leeds: Objects, Networks and Museums from 1870 to 1947”. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
- 2.A. Reeve (2016). “T.B. Sandwith and the Leeds City Museum's ancient Cypriot Collection”. Approaching Cyprus, 277-290. Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars.
- 3.A. Reeve (2020). “The archaeological activities of the Scott-Stevensons in Cyprus, 1878-1883”. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 30, 1-13.
- 4.A. Reeve (2020). “Following object itineraries: recontextualising antiquities from Classical Cyprus”. Classical Cyprus. Proceedings of the conference, University of Graz, 21-23 September 2017, 109-123. Graz, Verlag Holzhausen.
- 5.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
- 6.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.