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 […]
Tag Archives: Archaeology
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 […]
Archiving Women in Archaeology: Helen Thomas Waterhouse
Personal papers of scholars associated with the British School at Athens represent an important part of the Archive. As well as expertise in individuals’ fields, such archives provide a glimpse […]
Kamares Ware: Style as Transgenerational Memory
Emanuele Prezioso is analysing “Kamares Ware” in the BSA Knossos Stratigraphic Museum as part of his doctoral project Style as Memory: An Anthropological Approach to Kamares Ware in Crete at the University of Oxford.
William Gell’s inseparable friend, the Hon. Richard Keppel Craven
There is one sketch-book in the archives of the BSA which is closely connected to the William Gell notebooks. Bound in red leather and measuring 26 x 14 cm, it […]
Beyond the Walls of the Labyrinth
Alice Crowe reports on her ongoing ceramic studies at the Knossos Research Centre, forming part of her PhD project on Final Palatial and Postpalatial Knossos.
The Cyzicus Question: Hasluck, Henderson and the SPHS Image Collection
In November 1901 Frederick W. Hasluck arrived in Athens to take up a recently awarded studentship at the British School at Athens (BSA). He arrived at a time when the […]
Petrie @ BSA
Mr. Petrie, too, came from Egypt to join us for a time, and his valuable work on the Mycenae discoveries will soon appear in the Hellenic Journal. The quote above […]
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, […]
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