Martin Sinclair Frankland Hood (31 January 1917 – 18 January 2021)
It is with the deepest sadness that we note the passing of Sinclair Hood, peacefully at his home in Great Milton, Oxford a few days before his 104th birthday.
News
Ceramic Petrology Course 2021 announced
Course and application details for the 2021 Fitch Lab Ceramic Petrology Course can now be found on the course page. The two-week postgraduate training course is scheduled to run from […]
We are pleased to announce that members of the BSA can now request a VPN connection that will allow them access to BSA library’s digital resources remotely. This is a […]
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.
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.