A Reading of A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

Carl Graves and Anna Garnett read from Amelia Edwards’s A Thousand Miles Up the Nile and discuss her legacy, preceded by a Petrie Museum tour.

The reading considers Edwards’s Victorian travel writing, the colonial roots of British Egyptology and the consequences of distributing archaeological objects. An in-person ticket includes a preceding Petrie Museum tour; the festival advertises an overall 17:00–20:00 programme while the ticket page advertises the reading at 18:00–20:00. The exact tour segment is not independently timed. Only the directly timed reading, 18:00–20:00 on 11 November in lecture theatre G6, is listed in the schedule. The festival’s 17:00–20:00 interval is retained as overall programme evidence, rather than assigned to G6.