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 […]
Archive Story
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 […]
Sparta Begins: 1906-1910 BSA Sparta Excavations in the SPHS Collection
The investigation of Laconia and British School at Athens (BSA) excavations centring on Sparta was one of the most extensive and productive projects carried out by the BSA in the […]
Sparta Groundwork: SPHS Images of Early BSA Explorations in Laconia
One of the major British School at Athens (BSA) archaeological endeavours in the early 20th century was the campaign in and around Sparta in 1906-1910: the survey and accompanying trial […]
Island Observations: A.J.B. Wace & R.M. Dawkins in the Southern Aegean 1906-1907
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 […]
Distances Travelled, Things Seen: W.R. Halliday’s Photographs in the BSA SPHS Image Collection
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 […]
Through the Female Lens: Women Travellers’ Photography and the BSA SPHS Collection
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]