In this episode we talk to Dr Mark Jackson and Valentina Flex about a new exhibition at the Great North Museum Hancock, Challenging Legacies: The Kingdom of Iraq and Gertrude Bell.
Learn about the Gertude Bell archive, why she is so important to Newcastle University and how this ground-breaking exhibition was put together.
Challenging Legacies: The Kingdom of Iraq and Gertrude Bell is showing at the Great North Museum Hancock until Sunday 5 March (free entry). You can browse and search her photographs, letters, and diaries in the Gertrude Bell Archive. Follow @GNM_Hancock and @GertrudeBellArc on twitter.