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In this tour, Dr Debbie Challis will show you round some of the nooks and corners of the Portico Library, before showing you just a few of the highlights of the collection.

Dr Debbie Challis is Creative Producer at the Portico Library and a cultural historian. She is author of Archaeology of Race. The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie (Bloomsbury 2013) and has published on the artist Mary Severn Newton in Gabriel Moshenska and Claire Lewis (eds), Life Writing in the History of Archaeology: Critical Approaches (UCL Press, 2023). She is co-editing a biography on the archaeologist Charles Thomas Newton for UCL Press and is a resident expert on the podcast Alex Andreou’s Podyssey.