📢 Course Alert! Discover the rich legacy of the Olympics in our one-week residential course at the British School at Athens: “History and Philosophy of the Olympic Games – understanding ancient ideas and communicating modern ideals”

Calling SAS Students: Turing Scheme Funding is available to support travel to a partner institution and work or study abroad. Partners include @bsrome.bsky.social @britschoolathens.bsky.social The Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA) at the University of Warsaw shorturl.at/yUCPi

🎉 Congratulations to Edyta Marzec! We are delighted to share that Edyta Marzec, a long-standing member of the Fitch Laboratory team, has been awarded the Petros D. Goneos Award for the 2025–26 academic year.

New Deadline! 17 Nov 2025!

⏰Last chance! 📅 New deadline: Mon 10 Nov 2025 📍 Course Dates: 12 January - 22 January 2026 in Greece 💡 Course Highlights: 10 days of lectures, hands-on sessions, guided museum visits in Athens, site-visits across the Peloponnese and other key Bronze Age locations 🔗 www.bsa.ac.uk/.../the-art-...

Check out "The Statues from the Antikythera Shipwreck, 125 Years Later" by Brian Martens, now available on the Cambridge University Press blog! www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... #classicalstudies #underwaterarchaeology #antikytherashipwreck

📢 Opportunity alert! The BSA is seeking an organised and highly motivated recent University graduate for a full time (0.5 FTE Library and 0.5 FTE Archive), fixed term contract (6 months). 🌐 Further info on the position & application process: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../library-... ⏳ Deadline: 7 Nov 2025

📢 Event reminder! 📆 Tue 4 Nov 2025 ⏰ 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (GR) 📍 online only 🔗 For more details and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../rebecca-...

📣 Event reminder! Professor Polly Low (Durham University), “Towards a new history of ancient Greek empire(s)” 📆 Mon 3 Nov 2025 ⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK) 📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online 🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/polly...

⌛ Deadline approaching for the new BSA course on 'The Art and Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece'. ⏰ Apply by October 31, 2025 📩 For questions, email assistant.director [at] bsa.ac.uk Read more at: www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/the-...

📣 Event reminder! 📆 Thu 30 Oct 2025 ⏰ Friends' AGM: 17:30 (GR) Lecture: 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK) 📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online 🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/angel...

⛏ Williams Fellow fieldwork on Syros Our Williams Fellow in Ceramic Petrology, Sergios Menelaou, has recently been on a short field trip to trace and collect geological/raw material samples from northern Syros.

Job Vacancy The BSA is seeking an Assistant Accountant to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for the support of payroll processing, daily accounting tasks and invoices. You will work closely with the BSA Accountant. 🗓️ Deadline: 10 Nov 2025 www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/10/17/j...

TOMORROW! SOLD OUT but available to join online at link below. Can’t wait to talk WRITING GREECE with the wonderful @julianhoffman.bsky.social at @britschoolathens.bsky.social

Members & Readers: please note that due to the National Holiday, the BSA Library will be closed to Readers on the 27-28 October 2025 inclusive. The BSA Offices will also be closed. www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/10/21/2...

🎙 BSA on the BBC! Last night our Director Rebecca Sweetman spoke on BBC Radio 4's PM about seeing the Parthenon without its scaffolding for the first time in decades! It won't last for long, so those of you in Athens should catch it while you can. Listen from 52:30: www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

🔔 Event reminder! 🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future 📆 22-24 October 2025 ❗ fully booked in-person 🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social

Minoan Vessels and Maritime Routes ⚱️ Read more about this cultural event at the Knossos Research Centre a few weeks back: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/10/15/m...

Day 1 of 10 intense Anglo-Greek days. A talk by David McClay of @britschoolathens.bsky.social, hosted by John & Virginia Murray in the historic home of John Murray publishing: 50 Albemarle Street. Here, Thos. Phillips’s great painting of Byron, above the fireplace where his memoirs were burned.

📣 Event reminder! Writing Greece: An evening with Sofka Zinovieff and Julian Hoffman. 📆 Wed 22 Oct 2025 ⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK) 📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online 🔗 More info and registration (in-person attendance is sold out): www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...

🔔 New fellowship opportunity! AIO Fellow at the BSA @atticinscriptions.bsky.social 🌐Further details: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/24/a... 📝Application link: apply.bsa.ac.uk/s/applicatio... ⏱ Deadline: Wednesday, 15th October 2025

Save the date 📅 Remembering Colin Renfrew: a life’s work on the Cyclades and beyond 📆 21 November 2025 📍Archaeological Society at Athens, 22 Panepistimiou Str, 106 72 Athens, Greece ❔Event time & further info to be announced 🌐 www.bsa.ac.uk/events/remem...

Reminder! Deadline 13 October

📣 Event reminder! Poetry reading by Ben Verinder, Environmental Poet of the Year 2024, and Paul O’Prey, winner of the Publisher Award 2024 (Dare-Gale press). 📆 Mon 6 Oct 2025 ⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 19:00 (UK) 📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online 🔗More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/poetr...

New course alert! 🔔 'The Art and Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece' ⏰ Apply by October 31, 2025 📩 For questions, email our Assistant Director Read more at: www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/the-...

⛏️ Fieldwork 2025 This season (23 June–5 July) marked the conclusion of our excavation cycle at Toumba Serron, directed by Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres), Nicolas Zorzin, and James Taylor (University of York) with a team of 17–18 staff, students and specialists.

📖 Opportunity alert! 📕 The BSA invites applications for the role of Co-Editor of the Annual of the British School at Athens, a prestigious peer-reviewed journal with a long and distinguished history. For more information, visit: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/16/v...

BSA Williams Fellow in Ceramic Petrology, Dr. Sergios Menelaou (CHS Fellow 2024–25, right), and Assistant Director, Dr. Giorgos Mouratidis (CHS Fellow 2025–26, left), at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece for the fifth annual Research Workshop in Nafplio a few weeks ago ✨

Lecture and Wine-tasting 🍷 including a lecture by Dr Emlyn Dodd (ICS), a tasting of six Greek wines led by Alix Robinson and a raffle. 📆 Tue 21 October 2025 ⏰ 17:30-20:30 📍 Location: Westminster Cathedral Hall, London 🎫 £76 per person 🔗 More info: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/wine-...

📬 BIRI Postdoctoral Fellows Appointed The British International Research Institutes (BIRI) are pleased to announce the appointment of four postdoctoral research fellows within the project 'Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions.' 🔴Read the news at biaa.ac.uk/ottoman-mobi...

🗻 @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social conference programme & registration is now available! 🏔 📄 Visit our website for the programme and to register. Please note: for capacity and security reasons, it is strictly necessary to register for in person participation. www.bsa.ac.uk/events/mount...

📢 Upcoming event! Join us for the first Friends' Lecture of the 2025-26 academic year by Professor David Gill (University of Kent). 📆 Tue 16 Sep 2025 ⏰ 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (GR) 📍online only 🔗 For more details and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/david...

We're hiring! 🔬 The BSA is currently seeking a Fitch Laboratory Scientific Research Officer, full-time, fixed-term appointment (5 years). Check out the full job advert on our website for further information and the application form: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/04/f...

🏃🏻‍♂️Handing over the baton 🏃🏻‍♂️ Recently, Dr Edward Jones (right), outgoing Macmillan Rodewald student, and Dr James Hua (left), incoming Macmillan Rodewald student beginning next month, crossed paths in Athens! 📸 photo thanks to fellow studentship holder, Dr Laura Nastasi www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/stude...

The BSA Sep-Dec 2025 Events Brochure is out now! Check it out via our website and mailing list. Event listings are subject to change - make sure to refer to the Events pages of our website for the most up to date information. www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/02/e...

Summer School Takeover – Day 7 🌞 From #Marathon to #Brauron, #Thorikos & the breathtaking #Sounion 🏛️ Our students explored Attica’s past, while tutors guarded the map so Athena’s temple plan was drawn the old-school way! ✍️ #BritishSchoolatAthens #SummerSchool #BSASummerSchool2025

Summer School takeover! 🌞 Day 3: Acropolis & museum dives into sculpture & curation. Day 4: Roman Athens adventures—Hadrian’s Library & Arch, Roman Agora, Temple of Zeus, Panathenaic Stadium + lectures on festivals & Panhellenism. #BSASummerSchool2025 #Acropolis #RomanAgora

We launched #BSASummerSchool2025 w/ 30 students from 18 UK unis! Lycabettus views, #ancientagora tour, & a rain-soaked #kerameikos. Back at BSA, talks on democracy & burials kept spirits high—then pizza to close the day! #BritishSchoolatAthens #SummerSchool #summerrain

Via @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social Jason König has been releasing regular blog posts looking at individual mountains in turn. Whet your appetites and perhaps climb a few of the mountains ahead of the conference in October! Subscribe here: mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Congratulations to our ᾽Ancient City of Athens' course participants for completing their course! This June, 13 undergraduate students from 11 different UK institutions came to Athens to learn about the physical landscape, history and archaeology of Athens. The course involved a mixture of lectures..

Dr Penelope Anne Mountjoy (1946 -2025) The BSA community was saddened to hear that Dr Penelope Anne Mountjoy passed away on 14th June 2025, in Oxford aged 78. Read the full obituary here: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../dr-penel...

August 2025 Closure www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/08/05/a...

September 2025 Closure www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/07/29/s...

What an exciting year 2024 was, with the wrap-up of the Emporios Hinterland Project in Chios, Greece! Special thanks to Dr. Bevan and @brennawalks.bsky.social for coordinating such a systematic surface survey, enriched with computational approaches 🚶‍♂️⛰️

Over on LinkedIn, the UKRI and RICHeS teams have been sharing some great updates on our Transforming Access to Mediterranean cultural heritage science collections project, including a blog post on their visit to Athens in May. Check out the RICheS blog post: www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

⛏ It's a busy period of fieldwork for the BSA right now, and last year was busy too! We'll have lots of exciting news from our 2025 fieldwork projects soon, but in the meantime...

The BSA Arts Researcher residency 2026 (BSA/UAL partnership) has been awarded to Abbie Vickress 🎉 www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/07/22/b...

Save the date 🗻🌄🏔 Conference "Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future" 📆 22-24 October 2025 📍 British School at Athens, Souedias 52, 106 76 Athens and online 🌐 ℹ www.bsa.ac.uk/events/mount... @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social Full programme coming soon!

The #Minoan Palace of #Knossos has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage list - but only the palace site. The palace sits within a 70 ha ancient city, and @britschoolathens.bsky.social will be investigating it for at least the next 5 years. #archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

We are delighted that six of Crete’s Minoan Palaces join the UNESCO World Heritage sites! Our work at Knossos goes right back to the earliest days of the BSA and the continuing endeavours at the Knossos Research Centre, established by Sir Arthur Evans, remain at the core of our research.