Map Annotations
While sorting through and cataloguing the rare map collection at the BSA, I noticed that a number of the maps had handwritten notations and drawn lines on them. These annotations […]
Tag Archives: George Finlay
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 […]