Kathleen Mary Tyrer Atkinson
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Born | Kathleen Mary Tyrer Chrimes |
Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford University |
Employer | Manchester University University College Leicester Queen's University Belfast |
Kathleen Mary Tyrer Atkinson, née Chrimes (d. May 1979) was an ancient historian and archaeologist working in Britain, Greece, and Cyprus; she was the first woman professor at Queen's University Belfast, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Career[]
Kathleen Mary Tyrer Atkinson (née Chrimes) studied Classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford University, graduating with first-class honours.[1] After her studies she travelled in Italy, spending time at the British School at Rome, and took part in excavations in Sparta, leading to her book 'Ancient Sparta: A Re-examination of the Evidence'; she also worked on excavations at Kouklia (Cyprus) and Caistor-by-Norwich.[2][1] From the early 1930s, she was an Assistant Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at Manchester University, working with the archaeologist , whom she married in August 1932 in Eckington.[3][4] As the University did not allow women to hold regular academic posts in the same department as their husbands, she was given an annually renewable 'special lecturer' position; in the late 1940s she therefore moved to University College Leicester.[3] In 1949 she moved to Queen's University as a Reader in Ancient History, where she remained for the rest of her career with the exception of a year in the US in 1954, which she spent doing research at Ann Arbor and the University of Illinois.[1] She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in January 1954,[5] and later was made Professor of Ancient History, delivering an inaugural lecture entitled "Reflections on the Roman Rule of Law" on 27 January 1965;[6] this made her the first woman professor at Queen's University.[1] Atkinson published on a wide variety of topics in ancient Greek and Roman history, law, and literature. She died in 1979, leaving a bequest to the Roman Society to found the Donald Atkinson Fund.[7][3]
Selected publications[]
- Athenian Legislative Procedure and Revision of Laws, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (1939)
- The Respublica Lacedaimoniorum Ascribed to Xenophon (Manchester University Press, 1948)
- Ancient Sparta: A Re-Examination of the Evidence (Manchester University Press, 1949)
- "Restitution in Integrum" and "Iussum Augusti Caesaris" in an Inscription at Leyden (1960)
- The Historical Setting of the Habbakuk Commentary, Journal of Semitic Studies 4 (1959)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Professor finds our students 'a bit shy'". Belfast Telegraph. 22 January 1965. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ "Kathleen Mary Tyrer Atkinson". Oxford Reference. Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^ Jump up to: a b c "Donald Atkinson (1886-1963)". Norfolk Herirage Explorer. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ "Scholars Married at Eckington. Lecturers in the Same Subject. Quiet Ceremony". Cheltenham Chronicle & Gloucestershire Graphic. 6 August 1932. p. 3.
- ^ "Proceedings and Obituaries". The Antiquaries Journal. 60 (2): 463. 1980. doi:10.1017/S0003581500037033. ISSN 1758-5309.
- ^ Chrimes, Kathleen Mary Tyrer (1965). Reflections on the Roman rule of law. An inaugural lecture delivered before the Queen's University of Belfast on 27 January 1965. Belfast: Queen's University.
- ^ "Audrey Barrie Brown Memorial Fund & Donald Atkinson Fund". www.romansociety.org. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- 1979 deaths
- Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford
- British women archaeologists
- British archaeologists
- Historians of antiquity
- Academics of Queen's University Belfast
- Academics of the University of Manchester
- Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- British classical scholars
- Women classical scholars
- British women historians
- Scholars of ancient Greek history
- British women academics