Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Margaret Murray/archive1

TFA blurb
Margaret Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, historian, and folklorist. The first female archaeology lecturer in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London and served as President of the Folklore Society. Encouraged in her research by the department head Flinders Petrie, she established a reputation in Egyptology for her excavations of the Osireion temple and Saqqara cemetery. She taught at the British Museum and also the Manchester Museum, where she led the unwrapping of one of the mummies from the Tomb of the Two Brothers. A first-wave feminist, Murray joined the Women's Social and Political Union. She hypothesized that the witch trials of Early Modern Christendom were targeted at a pre-Christian religion devoted to a Horned God; this theory was later discredited, but it gained widespread attention and provided the basis for Wicca.

Midnightblueowl, hello again (I've been in and out.) This ran at TFA on 13 July 2016, and Jim is planning to re-run it in July, again on the 13th. I see that you and I and Brianboulton (sigh) all had a look at the old blurb, and it still looks good, but it's a little long. I've trimmed it down to 934 ... feel free to re-add anything you like, but try to keep it under 1025 characters. - Dank (push to talk) 20:04, 6 June 2023 (UTC)