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For the 100th anniversary of excavations in Mycenae, which began in 1920, Cambridge Digital Library is hosting the digitised archive of the historic British School at Athens led excavations at the site between the 1920s and the 1950s.
Scope: photographs, drawings, notebooks, plans, excavation records Digital Mycenae webpage: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/digitalmycenae Mycenae Archive via Cambridge Library Online: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/mycenae Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens continues to be an integral part of archaeological research in Greece, along with the other 'foreign' schools in Athens. The ASCSA has extensive archival collections, including the personal papers of staff and students, excavation records, administrative history records, and photographs.
Website: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASCSAthens Archive webpage: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/research/personal-papers-and-archives Downloadable annual reports (from 1881): https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/ascsa-annual-reports Explore the history of the School through "From the Archivist's Notebook" the blog of School archivist Natalia Vogiekoff-Brogan. The Historic Environment Image Resource (HEIR) project at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford is digitising historic lantern slides, dating from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries, in various collections in the University. Photographs cover a wide geographical area. An app developed in conjunction with the digitisation project enables users to upload their own current photographs of the sites represented in the lantern slides, and help HEIR archivists to create keywords for the digitised images.
Image database: http://heir.arch.ox.ac.uk Project blog: https://heiroxford.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @HeirOxford Founded in 1879, the Hellenic Society continues to support research in the classical world. With subscriptions, it helped to finance travels and explorations into Greece and Asia Minor in the 1880s and provided grants for some of the early British School at Athens students.
The Society has made some of its archive relating to its founder George Macmillan, and one of the archaeologists it first supported, William Mitchell Ramsay, available online. The Society also holds the photographic collection of WJ Stillman, comprising historic images of Greece. Twitter: @Hellenic_Soc Website: https://www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/ Digital Collections: https://www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/about-us/george-a-macmillan-lettres/ Further Reading: Doyle, Richella. 2009. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies Archive of George A. Macmillan's Personal Papers. Archaeological Reports 56: 203-218. Held in the University of Reading's Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. Records relate to the history of excavations mainly in Greece in the early 20th century. Includes correspondence to the Museum's founders, Percy Ure and Annie Ure, from various Greek archaeologists.
More details on the Museum's holdings here. Scope of collections: correspondence, letters, diaries, research notes and journals, excavation records, photographs, maps, museum records. Email: [email protected] Research blog: https://research.reading.ac.uk/curiosi/ure-routes/ Website: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/ure-museum/ Archive webpage: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/ure-museum/explore/collections-overview/archives/ Twitter: @UreMuseum Founded in 1886, the British School at Athens (BSA) continues to be a centre for the study of archaeology, art and architecture of ancient Greece and the Greek world. The BSA has an extensive archive including administrative records of the School, records of the School's many excavations, and personal papers. A recent addition to the School's Digital Collections is the 1887 diary of Emily Penrose, daughter of the School's first Director Francis Cranmer Penrose, charting her time in Athens.
Website: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/ Twitter: @BSAthens Archive webpage: www.bsa.ac.uk/about-us/archive/ Digital Collections: https://digital.bsa.ac.uk/ |
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