Ian Jenkins OBE
The British School at Athens was deeply saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Dr Ian Jenkins, Senior Curator at the British Museum, on Saturday 28 November.
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Surveying Thasos: J. Baker Penoyre’s Photographs in the SPHS Image Collection
In late June 1907, the archaeologist John Baker Penoyre landed on the northern Aegean island of Thasos. It was his intention to survey the ancient remains on this pine-wooded island. […]
Kamares Ware: Style as Transgenerational Memory
Emanuele Prezioso is analysing “Kamares Ware” in the BSA Knossos Stratigraphic Museum as part of his doctoral project Style as Memory: An Anthropological Approach to Kamares Ware in Crete at the University of Oxford.
William Gell’s inseparable friend, the Hon. Richard Keppel Craven
There is one sketch-book in the archives of the BSA which is closely connected to the William Gell notebooks. Bound in red leather and measuring 26 x 14 cm, it […]
New Research Fellow
Dr Anna P. Judson is just about to begin a two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the BSA, working on Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece.
The William Gell notebooks at the BSA
Or will the gentle dilettanti crew Now delegate the task to digging Gell, That might limner of a bird’s-eye view, How like to nature let his volumes tell; Who can […]
Library Closure
In accordance with the new measures put in place by the Greek Government we regret that the Library is currently closed.
October 26, 2020
Readers’ Stories 1. Mike Edwards
Library stories launches a series where new and old library users share their experiences of the BSA Library and describe how it has facilitated their research and study. In this […]
October 26, 2020
Election of one member of Council by the Supporters
The Council of the British School at Athens invites nominations for one elected vacancy on Council for a term of four years from 1 April 2021. Only Supporters of the […]
A Munificent Donation: Atchley’s topographical photographs in the SPHS Image Collection
By far the most notable addition to the collections during the year has been a munificent donation of over 1000 topographical negatives from Mr. Shirley C. Atchley, of Athens. The […]