Gallery
Introduction
This reference section contains thumbnails of photographs of Lawrence, photographs taken by him, and a selection of other images related to his life.
The purpose is to provide researchers with information about photographs that are known to exist. We are not a photographic agency. We cannot supply copies of these photographs nor authorise their reproduction in any place or form. The low-resolution thumbnails here are intended for identification only.
We have given each photograph our own reference number, but photographic libraries and other such sources are not likely to recognise these. We have quoted the owners' negative numbers where we know them.
Apart from photographic agencies, three major sources of Lawrence-related photographs are: The National Portrait Gallery, London The T.E. Lawrence Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford The Imperial War Museum, London In the medium term we will add more photographs, and additional information including:
The archive is in four chronological sections, some of which have sub-sections.
- Publications where photographs are reproduced
- An indication of the quality of the source-print (for example, whether a photograph has been reproduced full-page)
A large and representative sample of the archive can be viewed by browsing through each section, starting at the Contents List (click on an image to see the next). However, additional photographs are accessible only from the thumbnail Catalogues. There are links to the section contents pages and thumbnail catalogues in the left-hand navigation.
T. E. Lawrence chronology
1888 16 August: born at Tremadoc, Wales
1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys
1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909
1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British Museum's excavations at Carchemish
1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo
1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt
1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference
1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office
1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF
1923 January: discharged from the RAF
1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps
1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant
1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah
1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven Pillars, published
1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey
1929-33: stationed at Plymouth
1931: started working on RAF boats
1932: his translation of the Odyssey published
1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe
1935 February: retired from the RAF
1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May
1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset