[3] Perhaps best known for her excavations at Petra and Kilwa,[4] she also produced publications on the history of Allington Castle,[5] which had been owned by the Wyatt family in the 16th century.
[8][3] After passing both parts of her History Tripos by 1907, Conway added to and catalogued her father's collection of photographs of objects, working with Eugenie Sellers Strong at the British School at Rome in 1912 on this project.
[9][3] Admitted as a student of the British School at Athens for the 1913/1914 session, Conway travelled widely in Greece and the Balkans in 1914 with a friend, Evelyn Radford, who had also attended Newnham.
[16] Shortly after the war, Conway began studying in London at the Institute of Historical Research on the economic history of sixteenth-century England, a topic she returned to in later publications.
[18][19] Conway visited Petra for the first time in 1927, accompanying family friends on an extensive trip through the Middle East: Egypt, Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq.
[2] In 1932, Conway visited Kilwa along with Horsfield and Nelson Glueck, then director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem.