BSA Friends event

Alison Hadfield, “In Touch with the Past: How Artefact Handling Promotes Memory and Wellbeing”

Alison Hadfield (University of St. Andrews), “In Touch with the Past: How Artefact Handling Promotes Memory and Wellbeing” The speaker will focus on her research on the memory and wellbeing benefits of ancient artefact handling for people living with dementia. Alison will share with us the creative learning programmes that she has organised and executed […]

POSTPONED: Susan Mossman, Title TBC

Senate House (Room 349) Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

  THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE SPREAD OF COVID-19.  

George Huxley: Achaeans, Hittites, and the Tale of Troy

Senate House (Room G22-26) Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

  The lecture restates the reasons for equating the territory known to the Hittites as Ahhiyāwā with the lands of the late Bronze Age Achaean Greeks. Diplomatic relations between the two realms are examined with particular attention to the city called Wilusa by the Hittites. Finally, it is asked to what extent, if any, the […]

Robin Barber & Tony Spawforth: Instruction in an Antique Land: The First Taught Courses at the BSA, 1973-1989

Senate House (Room 349) Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

  No formal courses were taught at the BSA before 1973, the year of the first annual undergraduate programme. This was the brainchild of the then Assistant Director, Robin Barber, and helped to inspire a second, this time for UK school teachers in Ancient History, established in 1979. Both initiatives occurred under the directorship of […]