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12 Facts About Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop
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Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop attended Downe House School in Newbury, and graduated from Sorbonne, where she read French.
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Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop was inspired by Kathleen Kenyon to join the newly established Institute of Archaeology at the University of London in 1934, one of its first three students.
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Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop studied under Sidney Smith and received a postgraduate diploma in Western Asian archaeology.
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Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop was given a role as honorary demonstrator at the Institute of Archaeology's new permanent location near Regent's Park.
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Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop was involved in archaeological digs with Winifred Lamb at Kusura, Turkey.
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In 1946, Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop became a staff member of the department of Western Asiatic archaeology at the Institute.
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Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop looked after the administration of Mallowan's excavations at Nimrud, where she was sent as part of her researches into the analysis of materials.
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Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop was interested in horticulture, writing a piece on the distribution of the sissoo tree across the Middle East.
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Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1943, and of the British Academy in 1991.
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Between 1958 and 1996, Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop was on the council of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, presiding it between 2004 and 2007.
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Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop died at the Horton Hospital in Banbury on 9 May 2011 and was buried at the church of St Michael and All Angels in Great Tew.