On 28 September 1883 SWB
chaired a meeting from which came the founding of the Society of Authors
. From 1868 he served as secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund
. He also helped establish...
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1865: The Palestine Exploration Fund was founded...
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1865
The Palestine Exploration Fund
was founded for the purpose of producing accurate, modern surveys of the Holy Land, following the English, Protestant sense of personal belonging to that part of the world.
Birch, Dinah. “Land of Pure Delight”. London Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2006, pp. 24-5.
