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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Mary Edith
| name = Durham
| honorific_prefix = Miss
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Durham,_Mary_Edith.jpg
| birth_date = 1863
| death_date = 1944
| address = 116a King Henry's Road, NW [1907]<br />36 Glenloch Road, Hampstead, NW3 [1933]
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1908.01.23
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
RAI Council 1919 Member<br />RAI Council 1920 Member<br />RAI Council 1921 Member<br />RAI Council 1922 Member<br />RAI Council 1924 Member<br />RAI Council 1925 Member<br />RAI Council 1926 Member<br />RAI Council 1928 Member<br />RAI Council 1929 Member<br />RAI Council 1930-31 Member<br />RAI Council 1931-32 Member<br />RAI Council 1932-33 Member<br />RAI Council 1933-34 Member<br />RAI Council 1934-35 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1935-36 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1936-37 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1937-38 Member<br />RAI Council 1938-39 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1939-40 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1940-41 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1941-42 Member<br />RAI Council 1942-43 Member<br />RAI Council 1943-44 Member
=== House Notes ===
proposed by A.C. Haddon, seconded by Henry Balfour 1907.12.08
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Mary Edith Durham (8 December 1863 – 15 November 1944) was a British traveller, artist and writer who became famous for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
High Albania, 1900; Some tribal origins, laws and customs of the Balkans, [1928]<br /><br />Through the Lands of the Serb (1904) The burden of the Balkans (1905) High Albania (1909) The struggle for Scutari (1914) Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle (1920) The Sarajevo Crime (1925) Some Tribal Origins, Laws and Customs of the Balkans (1928) Albania and the Albanians: selected articles and letters, 1903-1944, ed. by Bejtullah Destani (I.B. Tauris, 2001) The Blaze in the Balkans; selected writings, 1903-1941 edited by Robert Elsie and Bejtullah D Destani (I.B. Tauris, 2014)<br />
=== House Publications ===
High Albania and its customs 1908<br />Montenegrin manners and customs 1909<br />Some S. Slav customs ... from ballads 1917
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
writings, photos, art works<br />census<br />A51/2/15 details of books bequested
=== Other Material ===
Much of Durham's work was donated to academic collections following her death. Her papers are held by the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, her diaries are in the Bankfield Museum, Halifax along with her collections of Balkan costume and jewellery given in 1935. Further gifts of mostly Balkan artefacts were given to the British Museum in 1914 and to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and the Horniman Museum, London.[7]<br />
| first_name = Mary Edith
| name = Durham
| honorific_prefix = Miss
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Durham,_Mary_Edith.jpg
| birth_date = 1863
| death_date = 1944
| address = 116a King Henry's Road, NW [1907]<br />36 Glenloch Road, Hampstead, NW3 [1933]
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1908.01.23
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
RAI Council 1919 Member<br />RAI Council 1920 Member<br />RAI Council 1921 Member<br />RAI Council 1922 Member<br />RAI Council 1924 Member<br />RAI Council 1925 Member<br />RAI Council 1926 Member<br />RAI Council 1928 Member<br />RAI Council 1929 Member<br />RAI Council 1930-31 Member<br />RAI Council 1931-32 Member<br />RAI Council 1932-33 Member<br />RAI Council 1933-34 Member<br />RAI Council 1934-35 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1935-36 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1936-37 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1937-38 Member<br />RAI Council 1938-39 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1939-40 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1940-41 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1941-42 Member<br />RAI Council 1942-43 Member<br />RAI Council 1943-44 Member
=== House Notes ===
proposed by A.C. Haddon, seconded by Henry Balfour 1907.12.08
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Mary Edith Durham (8 December 1863 – 15 November 1944) was a British traveller, artist and writer who became famous for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
High Albania, 1900; Some tribal origins, laws and customs of the Balkans, [1928]<br /><br />Through the Lands of the Serb (1904) The burden of the Balkans (1905) High Albania (1909) The struggle for Scutari (1914) Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle (1920) The Sarajevo Crime (1925) Some Tribal Origins, Laws and Customs of the Balkans (1928) Albania and the Albanians: selected articles and letters, 1903-1944, ed. by Bejtullah Destani (I.B. Tauris, 2001) The Blaze in the Balkans; selected writings, 1903-1941 edited by Robert Elsie and Bejtullah D Destani (I.B. Tauris, 2014)<br />
=== House Publications ===
High Albania and its customs 1908<br />Montenegrin manners and customs 1909<br />Some S. Slav customs ... from ballads 1917
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
writings, photos, art works<br />census<br />A51/2/15 details of books bequested
=== Other Material ===
Much of Durham's work was donated to academic collections following her death. Her papers are held by the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, her diaries are in the Bankfield Museum, Halifax along with her collections of Balkan costume and jewellery given in 1935. Further gifts of mostly Balkan artefacts were given to the British Museum in 1914 and to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and the Horniman Museum, London.[7]<br />