Contents lists
Links to online editions of works
by T.E. Lawrence
hosted on university servers.
Carchemish, report of the British Museum Excavations at Jerablus. 3 vols (London, The British Museum, 1914, 1921, 1952). Although Lawrence is not named as an author, he is thought to have contributed to Part I, while his notes were used in Parts II and III.
Volume 1: Carchemish, report on the excavations at Djerabis on behalf of the British Museum conducted by C. Leonard Woolley M.A. and T. E. Lawrence B.A., Part I, Introductory [PDF facsimile] >>
Volume II: Carchemish, report on the excavations at Jerablus on behalf of the British Museum conducted by C. Leonard Woolley M.A. with T. E. Lawrence B. A. and P. L. O. Guy, Part II: The town defences [PDF facsimile] >>
Volume III: Carchemish: report on the excavations at Jerablus on behalf of the British Museum conducted by D. G. Hogarth, R. Campbell Thompson and C. Leonard Woolley with T. E. Lawrence, P. L. O. Guy and H. Reitlinger. Part 3, The Excavations of the inner town, The Hittite inscriptions [PDF facsimile] >>
The Wilderness of Zin, by C. Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence, (London, The Palestine Exploration Fund, 1914) [PDF facsimile] >>
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (London. Jonathan Cape. 1935)
Our former online text will be restored soon. [Transcript >>]
The above links no longer work. In the case of the online Australian link to the SPW, the website has been closed. I shall endeavour to find alternative links
Peter Neville. March 2024
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