Floating colours
George Finlay’s collection of books spans from the 1790s to 1870s, a period when marbled paper flourished and when many new techniques were introduced by marbling firms keen to outdo […]
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Archiving Women in Archaeology: Helen Thomas Waterhouse
Personal papers of scholars associated with the British School at Athens represent an important part of the Archive. As well as expertise in individuals’ fields, such archives provide a glimpse […]
Creating order: first steps in the archival arrangement of the Mervyn R. Popham Personal Papers
Hello! I’m Kate Wilson, a MARM (Masters of Archives and Records Management) student from the University of Liverpool. In January this year, I came over to the British School at […]
First Adventures in Revolutionary Greece: Fiction or reality, and does it matter?
In my previous Archive Story, Philhellenism redux- Finlay rises, I sought to shed some light on how George Finlay, and some others like him, decided to join the Greek revolution. […]
Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History
Call for Papers for the International Conference:
‘Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History’
O! Sycophant!
Who are we talking to when we write in our books? George Finlay’s books are stuffed with letters from friends and endearingly tart marginalia. For the last few weeks I’ve […]
Third-hand clothes
Over the past few months, I have been working on the re-cataloguing and digitisation of the papers of the British Philhellene and historian, George Finlay, and his friend, Captain Frank […]
Philhellenism redux- Finlay rises
‘We are all Greeks’ wrote Percy Shelley in 1821[1], in what became a rallying cry for all those Romantic revolutionaries— known to us as the Philhellenes—who lent their support in […]
Unpublished Archives of British Philhellenism
The BSA is excited to announce the launch of the webpage for the new research project, Unpublished Archives of British Philhellenism During the Greek Revolution of 1821
‘A Piece of Nature’: Arts & Crafts Perceptions of Nature and the Byzantine Monument.
We are very pleased to announce a new virtual exhibition sourced from our Byzantine Research Fund Archive!
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