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04/04/2021

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Review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824)

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The introduction to a review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824), published in Edinburgh Magazine in June 1824 sees the Greek Revolution as a means by which Greece will…

13/03/2021

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The third Zappeian Olympiad in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875

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“And all the world of Athens collected on a Sunday afternoon at five o’clock, θαυμάζοντες και θαυμαζόμενοι, as the daily papers said.” In an article which appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine…

30/01/2021

The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Illustrated Tour of the Crystal Palace

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Historian Dr David De Haan takes you on an illustrated tour of the Crystal Palace during the Great exhibition of 1851. The tour begins at the main entrance of the…

03/01/2021

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Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838

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Anonymous. “Sketches of Modern Greece”. A series of three articles, attributed to James Henry Skene, which attempt to provide the general reader with a broad view of the political, cultural,…

27/12/2020

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Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron, and A Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece.

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James Browne Hamilton. “Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron” and “A Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece. (Part I.)” In this…

19/12/2020

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The Great Exhibition of 1851 in The (London Evening) Standard

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The lengthy and detailed passage begins by alluding to the excellence and civilization of ancient Greece and goes on to make specific reference to the intricacy and richness of the…

11/12/2020

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Greece as a Block of Marble in The Great Exhibition, 1851

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The following passage, published shortly after the opening of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, very briefly comments on one of the exhibits of the Greek pavilion linking it…

15/09/2020

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

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Excerpt from George Webb Dasent’s highly autobiographical novel, Annals of an Eventful Life (1870). The author explicitly declares the island of Zakynthos as the land of murderers and currants. The…

30/08/2020

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854)

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The Greek Court is approached by a façade having three Grecian doorways of the Grecian Doric Order. The visitor is or may be arrested at the principal entrance by what…

06/05/2020

Kalamata in 1905

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Kalamata is one of the pleasantest towns of the Peloponnesos. Situated in the rich Messenian plain, among orange groves which recall the golden fruit of the Hesperides, and banana plantations…

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824)

The third Zappeian Olympiad in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875

The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Illustrated Tour of the Crystal Palace

Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838

Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron, and A Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece.

The Great Exhibition of 1851 in The (London Evening) Standard

Greece as a Block of Marble in The Great Exhibition, 1851

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854)

Kalamata in 1905

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