Cataloguing the 1936 Exhibition Collection
The year is 1936, and the British School at Athens is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. What better way to celebrate than an exhibition in London, displaying photographs, artwork, and physical […]
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Floating colours
George Finlay’s collection of books spans from the 1790s to 1870s, a period when marbled paper flourished and when many new techniques were introduced by marbling firms keen to outdo […]
Magoula Hunting or The Romance of Excavation
In the summer of 2020, ‘Digital Mycenae’ went live, digitally reuniting the Mycenae excavation archives held at the Faculty of Classics Cambridge and the British School at Athens. Based on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pisidian Figurines and the Search for Prehistory in S.W. Anatolia: Images from the BSA SPHS Photographic Collection
My previous post, Hasluck & Woodward in S.W. Anatolia, ended in 1909 when Frederick Hasluck and Arthur Woodward purchased two figurines while they were in the major harbour town of […]
Hasluck & Woodward in S.W. Anatolia: Images from the BSA SPHS Photographic Collection
Study tours – explorations to see and study landscapes, sites, monuments or to conduct ethnography in stiu – were (and still are) a part of life at the British School […]