Illustrated London News Archives

01/03/2022

Meteora: “The Monasteries in the Air” in the Victorian periodical press, 1880 and 1888

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Meteora, as a location of singular natural beauty as well as of particular interest to the students of Byzantine art, was included in Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Greece from…

16/02/2022

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894)

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Originally published in 1842, The Illustrated London News (ILN) was the first newspaper to allow the image to get integrated in the news. As a dissemination of news from outside Britain was slow…

20/12/2021

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897

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The date is March 4, 1897. Henry Labouchère’s widely circulated London society journal the Truth publishes a parody of Byron’s ‘The Isles of Greece’ under the following introduction: Byron is…

05/09/2021

J. Gennadius on Spyridon Loues and the 1896 Olympic Games in The Illustrated London News

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In April 1896, the Illustrated London News published a text by Joannes Gennadius on the recently completed Olympic Games held in Athens praising Greece for scoring a triumph. The text…

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Meteora: “The Monasteries in the Air” in the Victorian periodical press, 1880 and 1888

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894)

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897

J. Gennadius on Spyridon Loues and the 1896 Olympic Games in The Illustrated London News

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