Introduction

Abstract

Philhellenism has been one of the research fields of the Institute of Historical
Research since its very creation. The relevant inquiries were initiated in 1960
by Loukia Droulia (1931–2019), who devoted much of her work on the issue,
dedicated her thesis to it (1974) and compiled the bibliography of philhellenism,
which remains the basic research tool for studies on the subject (1st ed. 1974;
2nd rev. ed. 2017). Therefore, it was due and expected that philhellenism would
form part of the Institute’s academic activities during the bicentenary of the
outbreak of the Greek War of Independence (1821). In October 2021 in Athens,
the Institute organised an international conference on “National Movements
and Philhellenism”, the proceedings of which are due to be published in Greek
in 2022.