The emerging international relations literature on states’ migration diplomacy traditionally centres on how cross-border mobility affects, and is affected by, governmental …
The climate and biodiversity crises are prompting new conversations about the archive of human experience we can draw upon to address them. Archaeology in Greece…
Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) was one of the most important British Idealist philosophers. Author of numerous books which cover topics from logic, metaphysics and aesthetics to ethics, religion and political philosophy…
Amid the recent popularity of fiction inspired by Greek mythology, authors Claire Heywood, Jennifer Saint, and Susan Stokes-Chapman discuss the opportunities and challenges which come with retelling ancient myths for a modern audience. Are the original myths expanded……
In anticipation of the Meidias hydria’s first return to Athens since its unspecified journey to Etruscan shores in antiquity, Professor Smith reevaluates the message of the Meidias hydria, with a focus on its central figure…
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 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….
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…
BSA Friends’ Lecture Throughout the history of Minoan studies scholars have felt that there was something distinctive about the way that Minoans depicted people. Arthur Evans and the first generation […]
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 This popular view no longer represents archaeological reality.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…