Map Elements: a Note on Source Notes
What’s in a Map? Maps contain common elements: by definition there is the actual “map” – a conventionalised visual representation, usually two dimensional, of geographic space – but often a […]
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Archiving Women in Archaeology: Helen Thomas Waterhouse
Personal papers of scholars associated with the British School at Athens represent an important part of the Archive. As well as expertise in individuals’ fields, such archives provide a glimpse […]
Creating order: first steps in the archival arrangement of the Mervyn R. Popham Personal Papers
Hello! I’m Kate Wilson, a MARM (Masters of Archives and Records Management) student from the University of Liverpool. In January this year, I came over to the British School at […]
Fragmented Archives: an Example of the Photographs of J.A. Spranger in the SPHS Collection
How are archives formed? I’ve noticed that archives are incomplete by nature – winnowed from their original “core” – a representative of the whole. Selection of what is preserved may […]
April 18, 2022
Easter closure
The BSA offices and the Library will be closed from Friday 22 April to Tuesday 26 April. Wishing everyone a Happy Easter!
April 15, 2022
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 […]
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 […]