Society

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

London, United Kingdom

Society in London. 2 people in the register connected with it.

History

3 November 1887
Committee meeting chaired by C. T. Newton forms the sub-committee that led to the Cyprus Exploration Fund.
LondonCharles Newton Kiely 2010, p. 247 Gardner et al. 1888
25 February 1889
Meeting at which Howorth spoke.
LondonHoworth Schmid 2025

2 people

Charles Newtonfounder (from 1879) · Founder/presiding figure; chaired the committee meeting of 3 Nov 1887 that formed the Cyprus Exploration Fund sub-committeeKiely 2010, p. 247 Gardner et al. 18881879
Howorthother (25 February 1889 – 25 February 1889) · speaker at the meeting of 25 Feb 1889Schmid 20251889

1.T. Kiely (2010). “Charles Newton and the archaeology of Cyprus”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 40, 231-251. Online
2.E. A. Gardner, D. G. Hogarth, M. R. James, R. Elsey Smith (1888). “Excavations in Cyprus, 1887-88”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 9, 147-271.
3.Stephan G. Schmid (2025). “Was there an official German interest in the archaeology of Cyprus between 1878 and 1914?”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 69-92. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
4.F. Haarer (2022). “From the archive: the foundation of the Cyprus and Cretan Exploration Funds”. Argo. A Hellenic Review 15, 23-32.
5.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.