1936: Exhibition Season & The British School at Athens
There comes a time in the life of an institution when it feels the need to reflect on its past glories and fêted in the form of a series of […]
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Map Annotations
While sorting through and cataloguing the rare map collection at the BSA, I noticed that a number of the maps had handwritten notations and drawn lines on them. These annotations […]
Knossos Research Centre Summer Lectures 2022
Officially launched in 2017, the Knossos Summer Lectures mark the commitment of the British School at Athens to present the results of cutting-edge research into Hellenic culture from prehistory to […]
Magoula Hunting or The Romance of Excavation
In the summer of 2020, ‘Digital Mycenae’ went live, digitally reuniting the Mycenae excavation archives held at the Faculty of Classics Cambridge and the British School at Athens. Based on […]
Launch of the ‘Digital Thessaly’ project
The BSA is pleased to announce that the first phase of the project ‘Digital Thessaly’ has been completed.
BIRI Digital Coordination and Strategy Project Digital Archivist
The BIRI (British International Research Institutes) have just advertised for the position of Digital Coordination and Strategy Project Digital Archivist.
Map Elements: a Note on Source Notes
What’s in a Map? Maps contain common elements: by definition there is the actual “map” – a conventionalised visual representation, usually two dimensional, of geographic space – but often a […]
May 4, 2022
Dr. Carol Bell elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
The BSA is delighted to announce that its recently retired Chair of Council, Dr Carol Bell, has been elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales / Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru.
Fragmented Archives: an Example of the Photographs of J.A. Spranger in the SPHS Collection
How are archives formed? I’ve noticed that archives are incomplete by nature – winnowed from their original “core” – a representative of the whole. Selection of what is preserved may […]
Return to Sparta: the 1924-1927 BSA Excavations at Sparta in the SPHS Collection
Building on the success of the British School at Athens (BSA) excavations at Sparta in 1906-1910, the BSA returned to Sparta after WWI. The decision was made sometime during the […]