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My meeting in Kuwait, in 1984, with 88-year-old Dame Violet Dickson, Umm Kuwait, began a quest to expand my world-view of the region that would be my home for forty years. My research led to the discovery of a network of British women who had travelled through, lived, worked and even died in the Mid...

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Published: Swansea, Wales, UK 2023
Institution: Swansea University
Degree level: Master of Research
Degree name: MA by Research
Supervisor: Matthews, G. and Bohata, K.
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