🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives Esso calendar, in English and Arabic, for the year 1967 (1967). Sabbat from Darna, Cyrenaica. "The sabbat (traditional lady's shoe) which is produced in Darna, is characterised by colour and decoration and, more notably, classical Arab Style.”

📣 Join us at @britishacademy.bsky.social for this year's BILNAS ANNUAL Lecture. "The Making of Medieval Morocco: State-Building & Everyday Life on the Edge of Empire" by Corisande Fenwick. 📆 Thursday 27 November, 6:30pm 📍The British Academy, London 💻 Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/bilnas-ann...

BILNAS Lecture: “Women Explorers in North Africa." Join us tomorrow (Tuesday) at 1pm (GMT) for what promises to be a fascinating and inspiring presentation by BILNAS Archivist Dr Anne Marie Williamson. 💻 Online via Zoom; register on the @theees.bsky.social website (link below). All welcome!

The next BILNAS lecture takes place tomorrow, Thursday 23 October, at 5pm (UK time). "Crumbling History – The Fading Material Culture of the Tataouine Region (Tunisia) and the Jebel Nafusa (Libya)" by Anna Leone.

📢 We are excited to announce our first joint lecture with the Egypt Exploration Society – @theees.bsky.social “Women Explorers in North Africa.” 📆 Tuesday 4 November at 1pm (UK time) BILNAS archivist Anne Marie Williamson combines Andrew Goudie’s research on the subject with her own findings.

📣 Last month's lecture is now available to view on the BILNAS YouTube channel: ‘Street Art and Civil Society in Post-2011 Tunisia: Aesthetics, Civic Engagement and Organisational Challenges’ by Dr Anwar Tlili. Click on the link to view the recording: youtu.be/BvYF8_Qxh-Y

📣 Join us for the next BILNAS Lecture 🏛 "Crumbling History – The Fading Material Culture of the Tataouine Region (Tunisia) and the Jebel Nafusa (Libya)" by Anna Leone 📆 Thursday 23 October at 5pm (UK time) via Zoom 💻 For more details and to register: www.bilnas.org/event/crumbl... All welcome!

🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives Photograph of Olwen Brogan near Nalut, c. 1970s and Giado, 1951. © BILNAS Archive: Olwen Brogan Papers – BILNAS/D41/3/11/9/17 and BILNAS/D41/3/11/1/17 #نالوت #جادو

Join us tomorrow (Thursday) for the first BILNAS lecture of the year: ‘Street Art & Civil Society in Post-2011 Tunisia: Aesthetics, Civic Engagement and Organisational Challenges’ by Dr Anwar Tlili 🕔 Thurs 25 September 17:00hrs 💻 Online Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... All welcome!

🏛 Our placement postgrad, Xuejiao Huang (Neva), has been creating person records for some of the amazing people who've contributed to our collections. Her recent article shines a light on Olive Brittan, a beekeeper to King Idris. Read Neva's article on our website: www.bilnas.org/olive-britta...

📣 One week to go until the next BILNAS event: ‘Street Art and Civil Society in Post-2011 Tunisia: Aesthetics, Civic Engagement and Organisational Challenges’ by Dr Anwar Tlili 📅 Thurs 25 Sept, 5pm UK time 💻 Online via Zoom Please follow this link to register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives Photographs of wild flowers from Tolemeita (Ptolemais), taken by archaeological illustrator David Hopkins in 2007. © BILNAS Archive: David Hopkins Papers BILNAS/D50/5/4 #تولميتا

🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives Phycus Expedition Photographs, 1950-1970. © BILNAS Archive: David Smith Papers BILNAS/D1/11/3/2/2 ___ 📚 Would YOU like to explore the BILNAS Archives? If so, visit our website for contact details and access information: www.bilnas.org/resources/ar...

Great news! We're thrilled to announce that the BILNAS Archive has been awarded a £3,000 Archives Revealed Scoping Grant from The National Archives. This grant will allow us to assess our valuable collection of maps and plans from over 70 years of British archaeological work in Libya. 1/2

📢 BILNAS Bulletin We are pleased to announce the launch of the BILNAS Bulletin, a member-exclusive publication with news and updates on the Institute’s activities. For more information about the benefits of BILNAS membership visit our website: bilnas.org/membership/

🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives The axial chamber of the 'palatial suite' at the Fatimid Qasr. BILNAS/D11/1/8/46: Ajdabiyah, Qasr Architecture 1 (1971-1976). © BILNAS Archive: Donald M. Bailey and David Whitehouse Papers ____ 📚 Visit the BILNAS Archives: www.bilnas.org/resources/ar...

Have you developed a new methodological technique for doing #archaeology? Or maybe you're applying a method for the first time? 🏺 Submit a methods paper to Antiquity and get your research in front of a global audience 👇

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives We are thrilled to welcome Xuejiao Huang (Neva), a postgraduate placement student, to the BILNAS Archive for July and August. Neva's placement is part of her Masters degree in Museum Studies.

🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives BILNAS/D54/10/1/14/1/57 Inscription: Gheriat el-Garbia oasis (Wadi Tula) (GG) (1981). © BILNAS Archive: UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey ____ 📚 Would you like to explore the BILNAS Archives yourself? If so, visit our website at bilnas.org/resources/ar...

🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives Earlier this month, BILNAS welcomed Alla Abdunabi, a visual artist specialising in sculpture and installation, whose work explores the ‘material afterlives’ of objects through storytelling that weaves auto-ethnographic, historical and fictional narratives. 1/2

🏛 Roman Acholla The BILNAS Assistant Director, Dr. Nichole Sheldrick is co-directing a new fieldwork project in Tunisia at the site of Acholla, along with co-directors Nesrine Nasr, Andrew Dufton and Sue Alcock. 1/3

🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives We're excited to share more progress in our ongoing efforts to digitise key archival collections. Thanks to generous funding from @britishacademy.bsky.social, digitisation work is now underway on two historically significant collections... 1/3

🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives Black and white photograph shows five women on stage, performing in a historical play. The woman in the foreground is wrapped in the flag of the Kingdom of Libya. © BILNAS Archive: Roland C. Shaw Photographs D8/1/65 – with @archanchistleic.bsky.social 1/2

🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives 🏛 The image is from a field notebook pertaining to Site V at Sabratha. It also features menu entries, presumably from the excavation at Sabratha. Dated 23 July – 8 Sept 1948. © BILNAS Archive: Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward Perkins Papers on Sabratha D5/2/6s02

Look out for our digital history of women archaeologists, ‘Women Transcending Boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes’, on display at the British Academy Summer Showcase, 20-21 June storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47f5...

Look out for ‘Women Transcending Boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes’, on display at the British Academy Summer Showcase, Friday 20 & Saturday 21 June. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47f5...

This International Archives Week (9-13 June), BILNAS is celebrating the #ArchivesAreAccessible campaign by spotlighting the Libyan Archive Project, focused on enhancing the Archive’s descriptive metadata to better reflect Libyan cultural contexts and lived experiences. 1/3

🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives Photograph of a mould-made lamp, with rounded, carinated body; Cyrenaica, 1973-4. © BILNAS Archive: John Riley Cyrenaica Papers D14/8/10/7 ___ 📚 Interested in exploring the Archives yourself? Visit our website to find out how: www.bilnas.org/resources/ar...

🏛Just ONE week to go until the BILNAS Summer Lecture & Reception at ‪@britishacademy.bsky.social‬, London, on the illegal trafficking of antiquities in Cyrenaica. – with Louvre researcher Dr Morgan Belzic. 📆 Thursday 12 June at 6.30pm For tickets: bilnas-summer-lecture-reception.eventbrite.co.uk

Lynda Albertson has new details on the role of French historian turned conflict antiquities researcher Morgan Belzic in the Barcelona busts. http://art-crime.blogspot.it/2018/03/illegal-chains-which-mirror-legal-ones.html?m=1

🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives 🏛 Libyan inscriptions with tabula ansata (dovetail handles) at Lepcis Magna c.1950. © BILNAS Archive: G.D.B. "Barri" Jones and John B. Ward Perkins Papers D10/12/1/10 with – @archanchistleic.bsky.social and @ceah-leicester.bsky.social

Join us at the @britishacademy.bsky.social on Thurs 12 June for the BILNAS Summer Lecture with Dr Morgan Belzic: "From Archaeology to Art Market, Transforming Provenance Research: 10 Years of Unveiling Cyrenaican Funerary Sculptures." For more details and tickets 👇 www.bilnas.org/event/from-a...

🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives 🏛 Sabratha: Profile of a cornice Block from the East Forum Temple. © BILNAS Archive: Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward Perkins Papers on Sabratha D5/14/33/8 #صبراتة @archanchistleic.bsky.social @ceah-leicester.bsky.social

‘Women Transcending Boundaries’ is a new StoryMap celebrating over 100 years of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship by women connected to the British International Research Institutes (BIRI). Stories of resilience, innovation and partnership across borders. Explore the StoryMap: arcg.is/1nGCGy3

Excited to announce that my volume "Tripolitania in the Roman Empire and Beyond" was just published by the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies (BILNAS), with generous financial support from @leverhulme.bsky.social www.bilnas.org/shop/society... www.bilnas.org/ebook/tripol...

Join me and colleagues from @thebiaankara.bsky.social, @bsrome.bsky.social, @bilnas.bsky.social and the British School at Athens via Zoom next Wednesday for an @ics.bsky.social event on ‘Researching and Collaborating with BIRIs’: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/resea...