Sifting the Soil of Greece contains three sets of short biographies:i. Trustees of the British School at Athensii. Members of the Managing Committee of the British School at Athensiii. Directors and students at the British School at Ath...
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Sifting the Soil of Greece
David W.J. Gill, Sifting the Soil of Greece: the Early Years of the British School at Athens (1886-1919). Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, suppl. 111. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2011. ISBN 978-1-905670-32-1. £38. xiv + 474 pp.[WorldCat]The British School at Athens opened...
Directors: The Inter-War Years
The Directors of the BSA during the period 1918-1945 were:Alan John Bayard Wace: 1914-23. [ODNB]Arthur Maurice Woodward: 1923-29. [DBC]Humfry Gilbert Garth Payne: 1929-36. [ODNB]Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway: 1936. [DBC]Gerard Mackworth Young (Mackworth-Young from 1947): 1936-46. [ODNB]Cambridge: Wace, Young.Oxford: Woodward, Payne, Blakew...
The British School at Athens (1886-1919): Outline
I am revising the text of my study of the British School at Athens (1886-1919). Here is the working outline:Part 1: The SchoolChapter 1: The Origins of the SchoolChapter 2: The Directors of the SchoolChapter 3: The BSA Managing CommitteePart 2: Students of the British School at AthensChapter 4: Oxford and Cambridge StudentsChapter 5: Women at the British School at AthensChapter 6: Other Students in...
BSA Students and Military Decorations from Greece
Several former BSA students were awarded Greek decorations in recognition of their military (and civilian) service during the First World War.The most prestigious was the Order of the Redeemer first awarded in 1833. There are five classes. The Gold Cross was awarded to Erenest A. Gardner (who had served in naval intelligence in Salonica), and the Silver Cross was to John C. Lawson and Richard M. Dawkins...
BSA Students and Crete in the First World War
Students of the BSA had been involved in a series of excavations across Crete since the foundation of the Cretan Exploration Fund. These had included Knossos, the Dictaean Cave, Kato Zakro, Praesos, Palaikastro, the Kamares Cave and Plati.Three former BSA students were commissioned as officers in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR): Richard M. Dawkins (1871-1955), John C. Lawson (1874-1935),...
BSA Students and St Andrews
Only a small proportion of students admitted to the BSA had studied in Scotland. There was a single student from St Andrews. Mary Hamilton, originally from Dundee, graduated from St Andrews in Classics in 1902, and subsequently held a Research Fellowship under the Carnegie Trust (1903/04). This resulted...
Students at the British School at Athens (1886-1914)
Gill, D. W. J. 2008. Students at the British School at Athens (1886-1914). Swansea: Ostraka Press.ISBN 978-0-9558498-0-0.Cost: £5.95.72 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, cream interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-colour exterior...
Directors: the Transition from Dawkins to Wace
Richard M. Dawkins was due to complete his term of office as director at the end of September 1913. However in this was extended for an additional year (in spite of the suggestion in Helen Waterhouse that his term of office came to an end in 1913). Alan J.B. Wace was offered the directorship in the autumn of 1913, to start from October 1914.Dawkins felt he could resign due to the death of his mother's...
David Hogarth on Melos
David Hogarth had excavated at Old Paphos with the Cyprus Exploration Fund (1888) and then at Koptos in Egypt with Flinders Petrie (1894). He then joined the Egypt Exploration Fund's excavation at Deir-el-Bahari (1894), before working at Alexandria with E.F. Benson (1895), a BSA student, and then the Faiyum (1895-96).Petrie had been the main influence on Hogarth when he went to Phylakopi on Melos...
Francis Haverfield and Robert Carr Bosanquet
Phil Freeman was written a wonderfully detailed study of Francis Haverfield (1860-1919). In the section on Haverfield's 'associates', Freeman notes the strong link with Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935), of Rock Hall, near Alnwick, Northumberland. Apart from being Director of the BSA, Bosanquet excavated...
Easter at the BSA
Easter Sunday had a special significance for Ellen S. Bosanquet, wife of the School's Director, Robert. On April 17 1903, Orthodox Easter, she gave birth to their first child, Charles.She describes the day in Late harvest: memories, letters and poems (London: Chameleon Press). The court physician, Dr...
Assistant Directors (1895-1915)
The first assistant director was appointed in 1895/96 to assist Cecil Harcourt-Smith who was on a six-month secondment from the British Museum. The post was held by the John George Smith (b. 1869) who had been admitted to the School in 1891/92, while still an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, under Ernest Gardner. One of Smith's roles was to assist with the Library; he also accompanied Harcourt-Smith...
Ernest Gardner and the study of sculpture
Ernest Gardner was the first Cambridge student at the BSA (1886/87). One of the tasks for his first year was a survey of Greek sculpture including a description of Cavvadias' installation in the Athenian Central Museum (later known as The National Archaeological Museum). Gardner mentioned works from...
'Trafficking' antiquities from Melos
The issue of looting and the destruction of archaeological sites is not a new one. Cecil Harcourt-Smith, at the Annual Meeting of Subscribers in July 1897 commented about the need for excavation on Melos:The antiquities of the islands are in many instances still comparatively unexplored, and are subject to the caprice, or even the trafficking, of the ignorant peasantry, and it is therefore highly...
Cambridge and Craven Students
The Craven Trust supported BSA students in three ways:The Craven University Studentship.The Craven StudentshipThe Craven FundCraven University Student1886/87 (Cambridge and Craven University Student): Ernest Arthur Gardner (1862-1939). Gonville & Caius. First Cambridge student.1894/95 (Craven University Student): Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935). Trinity. Part 2, 1st (1894). Admitted 1892/93....
BSA Managing Committee (1886-1918)
The original committee consisted of the following 'five members ... appointed by the general body of subscribers':Professor Percy Gardner (1846-1937) John Gennadius (the Greek Minister in London) Professor Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841-1905) Sir Frederic Leighton (1830-96)Mr John Edwin Sandys (1844-1922)There were also:The TrusteesThe TreasurerThe Honorary Secretary'members to be nominated by each...
BSA Students and London University
Ernest Gardner resigned as the BSA director to because the Yates professor of Archaeology at University College (1896). He later served as public orator for the University of London (1910-32).Three other former BSA students were appointed to positions in London. Frank Earp (BSA 1896/97) was appointed lecturer in Classics at East London College (1905-30). He was subsequently professor of Classics and...
BSA Students and Liverpool University
The University College of Liverpool was founded in 1881, and received its university charter in 1903. John Garstang (1876-1956), who had studied under Francis J. Haverfield in Oxford and excavated in Egypt with Flinders Petrie, was appointed honorary reader in Egyptology at Liverpool in 1902. Garstang then worked towards the foundation of the Institute of Archaeology (1904). Robert C. Bosanquet, director...
Archaeology in Greece (1886-1921)
A report on archaeological work was initiated by Penrose in the first year of the School. This was continued initially by Jane Harrison, and then by Ernest Gardner as director. It was sometimes authored or co-authored by the assistant director or librarian (Richards, Bosanquet, Tod, Hasluck, Droop). When the Annual was started the report appeared in both the Journal of Hellenic Studies and the Annual...
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