Geraldine Talbot

Geraldine Talbot (1907 – 19 September 2000) was a British archaeologist and librarian for the Institute of Archaeology Library, University College London.

[2] During the Second World War, she joined First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and was a military ambulance driver stationed in Woolwich.

[2] She was commissioned at the rank of captain in the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

[2][3] The work of Talbot, du Plat Taylor and Heather Bell who succeeded Talbot as librarian, resulted in the Institute's library being "one of the foremost libraries for Archaeology in Britain.

[3] Her interest in archaeology was in the Near East, and she worked on excavations at Jericho (1952 and 1957),[5] Jerusalem, Petra and Busairah (1973, 1974 and 1980).