Gertrude Bell's Accomplishments

Gertrude Bell’s discoveries and accomplishments serve as a reason for change in the way that women were seen in history during her time as well as in the future. Her undeniable passion and hard work also served as a way for people to know more about the places that they couldn’t travel too. Her important discoveries are what gave people information about faraway places and led to many changes in the way that people thought about the world. Gertrude Bell was born on July 14, 1868 in Durham. Her full name was Gertrude Margaret Lothian Bell. She lived for most of her life with her wealthy family in Redcar, a Yorkshire town, in a home built by her father. Her father was a businessman and an industrialist named Sir Thomas Hugh Bell. Her mother, …show more content…
Her hard work resulted in the National Museum of Iraq, which holds one of the world’d largest collections of Mesopotamian antiques. As well as this, she established The British School of Archeology for the endowment of excavation projects from proceeds that were in her will. Bell was assigned to conduct an analysis of the in situation in Mesopotamia after the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire was finalized. Due to her familiarity and relationship with the tribes in the are, she had strong ideas about the leadership needed in Iraq. She spent the next ten months of her life writing what was later considered a master official report, “self Determination in Mesopotamia”. Bell was also an incited speaker at a meeting for the promotion of a public library in Baghdad, and subsequently served on its library Committee, as president from 1921 to 1924. The Baghdad Peace Library was a private, subscription library, but in c. 1924 it was taken over by the Ministry of Education and became known as the National Library of Iraq. Gertrude Bell’s first love had always been archeology, thus she began forming what became the Baghdad Archeological Museum, later renamed the Iraqi Museum. Her ultimate goal in her life was to preserve Iraqi