Interactive fieldwork database launches
We are thrilled to announce the launch of an interactive fieldwork database on our Digital Collections platform.
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Nominations for election to Council by the Regular Members
Nominations are invited for the election of one member of Council as representative of the Regular Members. Only Regular Members in the current (2022-2023) and previous (2021-2022) sessions are eligible […]
Our next Assistant Director
We are delighted to announce that Giorgos Mouratidis (St Andrews) has been appointed as our next Assistant Director. Giorgos will take up his post after Christmas 2022.
September 23, 2022
Reopening of the library
The BSA library will reopen to readers and members on Monday 26 September. The use of a face mask is strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Making Linear B Tablets
Anna P. Judson, who recently finished her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the BSA, reports on her experimental work in the Fitch Laboratory into how the Linear B tablets from Late Bronze Age Pylos were made.
HM Queen Elizabeth II
The BSA has enjoyed Royal Patronage for over one hundred years. At this time we offer our sincerest condolences to all members of the Royal Family on the death of […]
Directorial Handover
Welcome Prof. Rebecca Sweetman (University of St Andrews) who has arrived at the BSA as our new Director. καλή αρχή! Prof. John Bennet will leave his post as Director at the end of the month.
Ad Familiares: Christopher Stray’s correspondence with Patrick Leigh Fermor
Chris Stray is known to all Classicists as someone who poses the pertinent questions. In 1988, while staying at the BSA and studying […]
July 20, 2022
September closure
The BSA library and the hostel will be closed 5-25 September inclusively.
The Gradual Decline and Reinvention of the SPHS Photographic Collection
Rubbish Theory, Michael Thompson’s classic 1979 study, takes a look at the dynamics of material value. It begins with the new, extends to the useful that gradually devalues over time […]