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SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was established in July 1940 when Britain’s fortunes, following the Dunkirk evacuation, were at their lowest ebb. It is sometimes suggested that Britain at this juncture stood alone against the might of the Axis but Britain was able to call on the resources of the
The three West Court Kouloures at Knossos: between the First and Second Palace periods
The main aim of this seminar is to discuss the ceramic material from Evans’s stone-lined rubbish pits’ deposits, i.e. the Kouloures Deposits, which have been published to some extent in MacGillivray’s book Knossos Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period (1998). The three West Court Kouloures were constructed....
The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete
More than any other population group, the Muslims who left Crete epitomise the trauma and paradoxes of the 1923 population exchange. They were intensely attached to the island, monoglot in Greek, and shared a material culture with their Christian neighbours. While thousands of Muslims had already left the island in the preceding decades...
Philippa Steele, “The vitality of writing traditions in the Bronze Age Aegean and Iron Age Cyprus”
The syllabic writing systems of Bronze Age Greece and Iron Age Cyprus (with particular focus on Linear A, Linear B and the Cypriot Syllabic script) did not survive to the modern day. This lecture poses the question of...
James Whitley, “The Rocky Heart of Crete: From the Hellenistic to the ‘Minoan’”
n the popular imagination, Crete is indelibly associated with the ‘Minoans’, and the Minoans have little to do with later Cretan history or archaeology. This popular view no longer represents archaeological reality. Since the 1990s there has been increasing emphasis...
Prof. Tony Spawforth, ‘The Athenian Family of Herodes Atticus and the Spartan Contest of Endurance’
This talk introduces the Sparta of Roman times, before focusing on a new Greek inscription from Sparta published last year by Georgios Steinhauer. The talk argues that this inscription records acclamations shouted by spectators at lads competing in the...
Prof. John Wilkes & Dr Susan Walker, “Sparta: a suitable place for the British archaeologist”
John Wilkes and Susan Walker consider the British engagement with the idea of Sparta as an ancient city and the urban reality as revealed by excavation in the 1980s and 1990s of the Roman Stoa and Theatre on the south side of the Acropolis.
Graham Shipley, “Space and place in early Hellenistic and Classical Messenia”
In this lecture I plan to outline some developing reflections on Classical and early Hellenistic Messenia as a dynamic landscape, attempting to apply concepts such as regionality, civic territories, and routes as well as certain geographical notions explored by the late Yi-Fu Tuan.
Richard Clogg, “Cousins and allies?: the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Greece”
The three West Court Kouloures at Knossos: between the First and Second Palace periods
The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete
Philippa Steele, “The vitality of writing traditions in the Bronze Age Aegean and Iron Age Cyprus”
James Whitley, “The Rocky Heart of Crete: From the Hellenistic to the ‘Minoan’”
Prof. Tony Spawforth, ‘The Athenian Family of Herodes Atticus and the Spartan Contest of Endurance’
Prof. John Wilkes & Dr Susan Walker, “Sparta: a suitable place for the British archaeologist”
Graham Shipley, “Space and place in early Hellenistic and Classical Messenia”