Lord Taylour
Lord William Taylour, director of the Mycenae excavations 1959-1969, was an avid and skilled photographer. He read Archaeology and Anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge, as a mature student (1947-1950), being taught Pre-Hellenic Archaeology (now ‘D1-Aegean Prehistory’) by Frank Stubbings. He went on to document the excavations in which he participated from the 1950s to the 1980s, in both southern Italy and in Greece - Mycenae, Pylos and Hagios Stephanos.
Thanks to a grant from the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust, these 1,600 images can now be consulted on the University of Cambridge Digital Library (CUDL). Many are in the format of Kodak Ektachrome and therefore are as vibrant in saturated colour as the day they were taken. En route to digs, travelling from Cambridge in his trusty Land Rover, he also documented the southern Mediterranean landscapes through which he passed and vignettes of daily life.
For the full contents of Lord William Taylour’s archive, see the catalogue on Archives Search.