New Publication
The BSA is delighted to announce the publication of the latest volume in its Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies series, a collective volume based on papers delivered at an international […]
April 15, 2022
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First Adventures in Revolutionary Greece: Fiction or reality, and does it matter?
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. […]
April 12, 2022
A House with one column by Rosemary Ind
Among the rarer books in the BSA Library is A House with One Column by Rosemary Ind (surname pronounced as in ‘India’, where she was born).
Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History
Call for Papers for the International Conference:
‘Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History’
Return to Sparta: the 1924-1927 BSA Excavations at Sparta in the SPHS Collection
Building on the success of the British School at Athens (BSA) excavations at Sparta in 1906-1910, the BSA returned to Sparta after WWI. The decision was made sometime during the […]
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 […]
Exploring Conscious and Unconscious Decisions in the BSA Map Collection
Library Science recognises that knowledge organisation systems, grouping related materials together, impose particular views of the world. Conscious and unconscious decisions play a part in how these organisational systems are […]
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 […]
Unpublished Archives of British Philhellenism
The BSA is excited to announce the launch of the webpage for the new research project, Unpublished Archives of British Philhellenism During the Greek Revolution of 1821