The Philhellenism project goes to Parliament!! Rebecca Sweetman (BSA Director), Roderick Beaton (BSA Chair), and Michalis Sotiropoulos (1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies) will be speaking in the conference Το […]
The international conference will take place at the premises of the National Library of Greece in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens (SNFCC), 15 – 17 March 2023. For […]
11 November 2022 Organized by HISTOREIN In collaboration with the British School at Athens & the Research Centre for the Humanities With the support of Initiative 1821-2021 Attendance in […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]