The ‘Student Stories’ page highlights the work of interns and volunteers at the BSA.
Student Stories
Cataloguing the 1936 Exhibition Collection
The year is 1936, and the British School at Athens is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. What better way to celebrate than an exhibition in London, displaying photographs, artwork, and physical items commemorating the activities undertaken at the School in its first half-century of existence? The year is 2023, and over ...
Fieldwork Convergence
This guest blogpost was written by Deborah Harlan, who contributed to the 'Interactive Fieldwork Database Project' and helped to mentor our student volunteers ...
Producing the ‘Fieldwork’ database: documenting ‘collection events’
Juliette Quatre (KCL / University of Oxford) volunteered for the BSA on our remote working 2021-2022 ‘Collection Events’ project, helping to produce an interactive database of the BSA's fieldwork activity. Here, she describes the process of remote-working. Last year, a few of us took part in a project aiming at expanding ...
Exploring the ‘George Finlay table’
Esther Laver (University of Cambridge) volunteered for the BSA on our 2020 ‘Digitisation Project’, helping to inventory the collection. Here, she revisits the experience of opening up the 'George Finlay table' and cataloguing its contents for the very first time. When I first came to the BSA as a student ...
Ure and Catling: story of a gift and a friendship
Salvatore D'Errico (University of Durham) volunteered for the BSA on our 2020 'Digitisation Project', helping to inventory the collection and to work on a preventative conservation strategy. He also worked on some of the papers relating to the acquisition of the BSA Collections, and he revists that work here focussing ...
What was life like at the British School at Athens in the first 100 years? Some of the first female students
In her second blogpost, Orsolaina Felago (Università degli Studi della Campania) continues to explore the early history of the BSA. Orsolaina completed an Erasmus+ traineeship at the BSA, January–March 2021 ...
Back to 1986: British School at Athens Centenary
Orsolaina Felago (Università degli Studi della Campania) completed an Erasmus+ traineeship at the BSA, January–March 2021. Because of the national lockdown, original plans changed and Orsolaina worked remotely, helping to compile a database of all events (lectures, conferences etc.) that have taken place at the BSA since 1886. During this ...
The Power of Archives: Through the Lens of the Mycenae Excavation Records
After my first time going through the Mycenae Excavation Records I had seen a mix of beautiful drawings of fragments, some designs of buildings I didn’t know, and a few photos of hills and rubble. After my second time, I had “organized” the materials. I grouped fragments of pottery and ...