Editing Barbara Levick (section)

== Early life and education ==
Barbara Mary Levick was born in London on 21 June 1931,<ref>{{cite news
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 | date = 21 June 2014
 }}</ref> the daughter of Frank Thomas and Mary (née Smart) Levick.<ref>Sleeman, Elizabeth (Ed), ''International Who's Who of Women, 2002'', (2001: Psychology Press, London), p 329.</ref> She was educated at [[Brighton Girls|Brighton and Hove High School]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brightongirls.gdst.net/about/alumnae/notable-alumnae/|title=Brighton Girls: Notable Alumnae|access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref> and [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]].<ref name=":1"/> Her [[DPhil]], on the subject of Roman colonies in South Asia Minor was undertaken in the mid-1950s and supervised by [[Ronald Syme]].<ref name=":0"/> For this research she made two solo trips to [[Turkey]], placing herself in a tradition at this time of largely Scottish and male epigraphers travelling in [[Anatolia]].<ref name=":0"/> She focused, however, on [[Pisidia]], a region that lay away from the routes explored by a group of her male contemporaries, although she was the only one to publish a book as a result of research from these expeditions.<ref name=":0"/>