Dilys Powell
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Elizabeth Dilys Powell was a British film critic and travel writer who contributed to The Sunday Times for more than 50 years. Powell was known for her receptiveness to cultural change in the cinema a
Dilys Powell in 1984
British School at Athens
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The British School at Athens is an institute for advanced research, one of the eight British International Research Institutes supported by the British Academy, that promotes the study of Greece in al
Dilys Powell
…Ottoline Morrell before joining the literary department of The Sunday Times in 1928. In 1929, her husband Humfry Payne was appointed director of the British School at Athens. From 1931 to 1936, Powell spent part of each year in Greece, frequently attending excavations where her husband was working, including the excavation…
The library of the BSA (2002)
The Heraion of Perachora, excavated by the British School at Athens during the 1930s
Robert Carr Bosanquet (centre), Richard MacGillivray Dawkins (left) and Charles Trick Currelly (right) at Roussolakkos, 1903–1905