FollowingGertrudeBell

Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell will be published by Trailblazer in September, 2023. Also @patyale

[FollowingGertrudeBell @FollowingBell]

My Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell is being published by Trailblazer in the UK in Sept, 2023. Pre-orders from Amazon if no local bookshops. Few copies available now from German Bookshop/Alman Kitabevi on İstiklal Caddesi, İstanbul.

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@kayagenc @patyale Thank you, Kaya Bey.

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Murat ‘s lovely video showing him rephotographing sites at #Binbirkilise on #Karadağ that were photographed more than 100 years ago by #gertrudebell. Really beautiful.

[Murat Sarıbaş @MurattSaribas]

🎉 Vlog yayında!

🇬🇧🇹🇷 1907 yılında, Konya-Karaman arasındaki Karadağ’da arkeolojik faaliyetlerde bulunan İngiliz seyyah, arkeolog ve casus Gertrude Bell’in Karadağ’da izini sürdük.

Beğenirseniz, paylaşmayı unutmayın. ☺️😎

YouTube: https://t.co/kS7Nud35uq

[Murat Sarıbaş @MurattSaribas]

Postallarınız, sağlam kıyafetleriniz, kargo pantolonlarınız hazır bulunsun. Ne olur, ne olmaz. Tedbir iyiydir.

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https://t.co/UNgjKPUTOB

[Pat Yale @patyale]

Great feeling to get to end of first week of 2023 and see the proofs of Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell marked up and on their way. Not much longer to wait until publication hopefully. #gertrudebell

[FollowingGertrudeBell @FollowingBell]

Konya-based student Murat Sarıbaş has been re photographing places in #Türkiye visited by #gertrudebell. In this video from #Binbirkilise he shows how it’s done. https://t.co/kD1uPT9gQb

[FollowingGertrudeBell @FollowingBell]

@businessturkey Thanks. Hopefully my book will be out in spring. GB visited what we think of as Turkey at least 11 times as a younger woman.

[FollowingGertrudeBell @FollowingBell]

@RadicalRog @ArtCrunchy Resigned from Tory Party in 2019.

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@PhilPCritchley @ArtCrunchy Hasn't he left Tory Party now anyway?

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@GriffithStephen Thanks.

[FollowingGertrudeBell @FollowingBell]

That's all for now folks. Editing of my Following Miss Bell: Travels Round Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell begins in January so hopefully it will be published later next year.

[FollowingGertrudeBell @FollowingBell]

@GriffithStephen You're most welcome, Stephen. And thank YOU for your book on the Tur Abdin.

[FollowingGertrudeBell @FollowingBell]

In May 1914 Gertrude paid her last visit to #Constantinople/#Istanbul on her way back from extended trip through Syria & Arabia which culminated in her being held captive in #Hayal for 10 days. Took "singularly ruinous" French SS Equateur from #Beirut - "doors won't shut and

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to UK. She cannot possibly have dreamt that it wld be the last time she wld visit what is now the Republic of Turkey. #gertrudebell #Constantinople #gertrudebelltrail

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whirl & now for first time she mentioned being driven up Bosphorus - "most delicious it was" despite two flat tyres. During her stay she called on Harold Nicholson & Vita Sackville-West, then living in #Cihangir. Shortly afterwards she departed from #Sirkeci station to return

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images show ancient Golden Gate embedded in walls of what had become #Yedikule by then. But perhaps she can be forgiven for enjoying social whirl after months on horseback. #gertrudebell #Constantinople #gertrudebelltrail

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Wearied by her long journey & w/her thoughts turned towards home, Gertrude left few details of her last but one visit to #Constantinople/#Istanbul in 1911. Frustratingly, she wrote that she had procured "a much coveted permission" to visit the "Old Serai" (Topkapı Sarayı/Palace)

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but then omitted to leave any account of visit. The last of her photo albums show that she did indeed go there & showcase how little its appearance has changed since then. Unmentioned goes a repeated walk along the Land Walls revealed by the same photo album - several