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. […]
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).
Call for Papers for the International Conference:
‘Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History’
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
The BSA is excited to announce the launch of the webpage for the new research project, Unpublished Archives of British Philhellenism During the Greek Revolution of 1821
The BSA seeks a full-time Digital Asset Manager to help the realise the ambitious goals of standardising and integrating its administrative, research and outreach data into a central database.