Digging Crete: SPHS Images from BSA Excavations in a New Century
At the close of the Archive Story, Digging II, which chronicled the growth of British School at Athens (BSA) excavations in the late 19th century, I mentioned that the BSA […]
Archive Story
The Well-travelled Frederick W. Hasluck: Images from the SPHS Collection
One of the most well-travelled scholars associated with the British School at Athens (BSA) was Frederick W. Hasluck. His association with the BSA began with his admission as a student […]
Pisidian Figurines and the Search for Prehistory in S.W. Anatolia: Images from the BSA SPHS Photographic Collection
My previous post, Hasluck & Woodward in S.W. Anatolia, ended in 1909 when Frederick Hasluck and Arthur Woodward purchased two figurines while they were in the major harbour town of […]
Hasluck & Woodward in S.W. Anatolia: Images from the BSA SPHS Photographic Collection
Study tours – explorations to see and study landscapes, sites, monuments or to conduct ethnography in stiu – were (and still are) a part of life at the British School […]
Surveying Thasos: J. Baker Penoyre’s Photographs in the SPHS Image Collection
In late June 1907, the archaeologist John Baker Penoyre landed on the northern Aegean island of Thasos. It was his intention to survey the ancient remains on this pine-wooded island. […]
William Gell’s inseparable friend, the Hon. Richard Keppel Craven
There is one sketch-book in the archives of the BSA which is closely connected to the William Gell notebooks. Bound in red leather and measuring 26 x 14 cm, it […]
The William Gell notebooks at the BSA
Or will the gentle dilettanti crew Now delegate the task to digging Gell, That might limner of a bird’s-eye view, How like to nature let his volumes tell; Who can […]
A Munificent Donation: Atchley’s topographical photographs in the SPHS Image Collection
By far the most notable addition to the collections during the year has been a munificent donation of over 1000 topographical negatives from Mr. Shirley C. Atchley, of Athens. The […]
The English Photographic Company and the BSA SPHS Image Collection
The name English Photographic Company crops up here and there in the BSA SPHS Image Collection records. Some negatives in the collection contain written notations, “Eng. Photo Co.” on the […]
The Cyzicus Question: Hasluck, Henderson and the SPHS Image Collection
In November 1901 Frederick W. Hasluck arrived in Athens to take up a recently awarded studentship at the British School at Athens (BSA). He arrived at a time when the […]