BSA @ Home. A Message from the Director
A year ago today, on St George’s day, we were in Orthodox Holy Week, so things were relatively quiet at the BSA. Our son was visiting us from the UK […]
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Help with online research and teaching during the coronavirus outbreak
Although the BSA library is closed during the corona virus outbreak, researchers will be able to find many books and journals freely available on line. There are many open access […]
Hidden Histories miniseries
We are delighted to launch our new miniseries ‘Hidden Histories’. Narrated by noted historian of Classics Christopher Stray, this set of five videos investigates the memories embedded within the buildings of the British School at Athens.
Digging II: 19th-century Kynosarges and the Melos Campaign in the BSA SPHS Image Collection
In its earliest years, financial constraints on the British School at Athens made it problematic to mount large-scale excavations. This is chronicled in the previous Archive Story, Digging I: the […]
Digging I: the Earliest 19th-century BSA Excavations in the BSA SPHS Image Collection
In the early years of the British School at Athens, the annual reports repeatedly remark on its precarious financial situation, dependant on a limited number of grants and subscriptions. However, […]
Wandering Scholars: D.G. Hogarth and the Art of Travel
David George Hogarth first arrived at the British School at Athens in 1887, only a few months after it began operation; more students soon followed in his wake. However, unlike […]
Relics of the Past: Scenes from ‘Modern’ Life in the SPHS Image Collection
Scattered throughout the photographs in the BSA SPHS image collection are scenes from modern life, primarily in Greece, but extending into neighbouring countries. These are not modern in the current […]
Documenting Modern Greek Dialects: R.M. Dawkins & W.R. Halliday in Central Anatolia 1909-1911
Included in the BSA SPHS image collection are photographs that document various study tours conducted by early BSA researchers in the last decade of the 19th century and the first […]
January 8, 2020
Distant seas, connected worlds: Tintagel, Britain and Greece in Late Antiquity
The British School at Athens is pleased to extend a warm invitation to an event on Wednesday 22nd January.
December 16, 2019
Knossos Curatorial Project Internships
The British School at Athens seeks two short-term (8 weeks) full-time interns for its Curatorial Project based in the Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos.