Magoula Hunting or The Romance of Excavation
In the summer of 2020, ‘Digital Mycenae’ went live, digitally reuniting the Mycenae excavation archives held at the Faculty of Classics Cambridge and the British School at Athens. Based on […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
May 23, 2022
Library Opening Hours Tuesday 31 May
The Penrose and Payne rooms will close from 4 pm on Tuesday 31 May in order to facilitate the Michael Frede Memorial Lecture “Self-sufficiency in Aristotle and others: what’s so […]
Launch of the ‘Digital Thessaly’ project
The BSA is pleased to announce that the first phase of the project ‘Digital Thessaly’ has been completed.
BIRI Digital Coordination and Strategy Project Digital Archivist
The BIRI (British International Research Institutes) have just advertised for the position of Digital Coordination and Strategy Project Digital Archivist.
Map Elements: a Note on Source Notes
What’s in a Map? Maps contain common elements: by definition there is the actual “map” – a conventionalised visual representation, usually two dimensional, of geographic space – but often a […]
Archiving Women in Archaeology: Helen Thomas Waterhouse
Personal papers of scholars associated with the British School at Athens represent an important part of the Archive. As well as expertise in individuals’ fields, such archives provide a glimpse […]
Creating order: first steps in the archival arrangement of the Mervyn R. Popham Personal Papers
Hello! I’m Kate Wilson, a MARM (Masters of Archives and Records Management) student from the University of Liverpool. In January this year, I came over to the British School at […]
May 4, 2022
Dr. Carol Bell elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
The BSA is delighted to announce that its recently retired Chair of Council, Dr Carol Bell, has been elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales / Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru.
Fragmented Archives: an Example of the Photographs of J.A. Spranger in the SPHS Collection
How are archives formed? I’ve noticed that archives are incomplete by nature – winnowed from their original “core” – a representative of the whole. Selection of what is preserved may […]