How can visual media tell a story? Image-based observations are often dependent on context – who composed them, what they show, when and possibly why they were created. It also […]
In the 1910/1911 Academic session at the British School at Athens (BSA), William Reginald Halliday arrived as the Craven Student from Oxford. The Annual report for that session recorded his […]
One of the benefits to cataloguing the large BSA-SPHS photographic collection is teasing out stories. The images tell the stories, but they were created by individuals who photographed and/or donated […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]