BSA Fundraising Event Lecture and Wine-tasting The Friends' Committee of the British School at Athens is pleased to share the details of the wine-tasting fundraising event taking place on Tuesday 21 October 2025 at 5.30pm, at Westminster Cathedral Hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London, SW1P 1QW. Please refer to the attached Information leaflet. The event cost is £76 per […]
BSA Friends Greece event "BYRON @200: Poets, Patriots & Philhellenes" A collective reading curated by poet, playwright and literary translator, Ginger F. Zaimis, in conjunction with the British School Athens and BSA Friends that presents a selection of poets, writers & history keepers in celebration of Lord Byron and the 200th anniversary of his death. […]
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 […]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE SPREAD OF COVID-19.
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 […]
Gian Piero Milani (PhD student, University of Oxford), "The Collection of Allied Aerial Photographs of the British School at Athens”
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 […]
Dr Colin Macdonald, "Tradition and Innovation in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial Architecture of Knossos”
