Emily Penrose’s Diary: British School at Athens in 1887
In the various histories of the British School at Athens, there is not much information about the first year of its operation. We do know that the first director was […]
Archive Story
Digging II: 19th-century Kynosarges and the Melos Campaign in the BSA SPHS Image Collection
In its earliest years, financial constraints on the British School at Athens made it problematic to mount large-scale excavations. This is chronicled in the previous Archive Story, Digging I: the […]
Digging I: the Earliest 19th-century BSA Excavations in the BSA SPHS Image Collection
In the early years of the British School at Athens, the annual reports repeatedly remark on its precarious financial situation, dependant on a limited number of grants and subscriptions. However, […]
Wandering Scholars: D.G. Hogarth and the Art of Travel
David George Hogarth first arrived at the British School at Athens in 1887, only a few months after it began operation; more students soon followed in his wake. However, unlike […]
Relics of the Past: Scenes from ‘Modern’ Life in the SPHS Image Collection
Scattered throughout the photographs in the BSA SPHS image collection are scenes from modern life, primarily in Greece, but extending into neighbouring countries. These are not modern in the current […]
Documenting Modern Greek Dialects: R.M. Dawkins & W.R. Halliday in Central Anatolia 1909-1911
Included in the BSA SPHS image collection are photographs that document various study tours conducted by early BSA researchers in the last decade of the 19th century and the first […]
Rule II and the Origins of the SPHS Photographic Collection
Rule II. To collect drawings, facsimiles, transcripts, plans, and photographs of Greek inscriptions, MSS., works of art, ancient sites and remains, and with this view to invite travellers to communicate […]
J.T. Wood’s Ephesus through the lens of Corporal J. Trotman: Archive Images in the BSA SPHS Collection
An interesting story began to take shape when cataloguing a series of 67 large glass plate negatives housed in the BSA-SPHS collection, originally part of the Society for the Promotion […]
F.W. Hasluck and the Monasteries of Athos: Images from the Archive
In 1911, Frederick W. Hasluck, Student, Librarian and Assistant Director of the British School at Athens, travelled to Mount Athos. Here he systematically photographed the buildings on the peninsula, producing […]
Argonauts Abroad: Archive Images from the 1901 Schoolmasters’ cruise
In the spring of 1901, the steam yacht Argonaut embarked on a voyage to places of interest in Greek history. Onboard were 90 (male) schoolmasters, 70 ladies (many of whom […]