📣 Apply for a BSA Research Award! 📣 ⏳ Most deadlines: 27 February 2026 ⚠️ Knossos fund deadlines: 31 December 2025 👉 Apply now online: www.bsa.ac.uk/research-awa... #BSAResearchAwards #OpenCall #britishschoolatathens

📣 BSA Studentships 2026–27 📣 🔍 Archaeology | History | Classics | Art History | Modern Greek & more 💷 £1,334/month + return airfare 🗓 Deadline: 27 Feb 2026 👉 Info & application: www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/stude... #BSAStudentships #OpenCall #PostgradFunding #Postdoc #HellenicStudies #FriendsOfTheBSA

We are delighted to welcome Marianna Moschoviti as the BSA Assistant Accountant. We wish Marianna well in her role and are happy to be working with her – “Καλή αρχή!” www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/12/22/w...

📚 Publication alert! Rebecca Sweetman’s new book, The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique periods has recently been published by @cambridgeuniversitypress - congratulations Rebecca! 👉 Now available on the shelf in the BSA Library and via CUP!

Watch back 🎥 "Designing Belonging: Libraries as Inclusive and Open Public Spaces" at the National Library of Greece (SNFCC) Co-organised by the BSA, member of the Committee for the Support of Libraries ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7PW...

🎓 Centenary Bursaries | Applications Open 🇬🇧 Greek & Cypriot graduates: funding for short research/study projects in the UK in any field in which the BSA is active. ✨ £1,300/month + return airfare 👩‍🎓 Early-career researchers encouraged 📅 Deadline: 9 Jan 2026 🔗 Details: www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/bursa...

The Myrto Georgakopoulou Research Fellowship 2025–2026 Three years after the loss of Myrto Georgakopoulou, we are pleased to announce that the 2025–2026 Fellowship in her memory has been awarded to Dr Laura Alvarez. Read about Laura's research on our website: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../the-myrt...

🏦 Lorenzo Calvelli following the footsteps of Cyriac of Ancona through Athens Read more and join us for Lorenzo's Visiting Fellow Lecture next week! www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/12/09/l...

📢 Last chance! Join our brilliant course: "History and Philosophy of the Olympic Games – understanding ancient ideas and communicating modern ideals" - the deadline has been extended to 14.12.25! 🌐 Info: www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/hist...

📢 Event reminder! Join us next week for the online UK Friends' Lecture by Emeritus Professor Edward Harris (Durham University) on “A New Approach to the Attic Countryside: Markets in the Demes”. 📆 Tue 9 Dec 2025 ⏰ 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (GR) 📍 online only 🔗 www.bsa.ac.uk/.../edward-h...

📄 Call for papers: Women Archaeologists and War. 4th workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece, jointly organised by @efathenes.bsky.social and the BSA. 🌐 Info: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/call-... 📅 Workshop: 9-10 Mar 2026 📍 Where: EFA & BSA, Athens ⏳Deadline for abstracts: 31 Dec 2025

#EFAevents It's on! December 2-4, join us for our first @lachronique.bsky.social geodata hackathon ! 👉 www.efa.gr/events/geoda...

Thanks to generous support from Katharine Hassapoyannes & David Blandford, the BSA is now inviting applications for the inaugural Hassapoyannes-Blandford Post-Doctoral Fellow in North Kynouria Studies. 🌐 www.bsa.ac.uk/.../hassapoy... 📸 Kato Meligous Kastraki church from west. Photo by R. Sweetman

📣 Event reminder! Join us for next week's next week's panel discussion hosted by the BSA in cooperation with the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe. 📆 Mon 8 December 2025 ⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK) 📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online 🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/archa...

📣 Event reminder! Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies & British School at Athens Autumn Joint Lecture by Dr Vicky Manolopoulou (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) 🗓️4 December at 4:00–5:00pm GMT 🚩Newcastle University & online 🔗Webinar registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c33a77...

📣 Opportunity Alert! The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS) and the British School at Athens (BSA) invite applications for the role of co-editor of Archaeological Reports (AR). 📄 Find out more: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/26/j... ⏳Deadline: 12.00 noon EET 31 December 2025

📣 Event reminder! Join us for next week's Upper House Seminar by our current Richard Bradford McConnell student Ben Cassell (King’s College London). 📆 Mon 1 December 2025 ⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK) 📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online 🔗 Info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/ben-c...

📺 Tune in to Crete TV on Wednesday to catch Knossos Curator Kostis Christakis on Personal Stories! Συντονιστείτε στo Κρήτη TV την Τετάρτη για να δείτε τον Κωστή Χριστάκη, Επιμελητή του Ερευνητικού Κέντρου Κνωσού, στην εκπομπή Προσωπικές Ιστορίες! 📺 ▶️ Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-X...

Still thinking about Mountains? 🗻 Check out this film featuring @archaeo-zagori.bsky.social (one of the organisers of last month's conference @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social) which documents the brilliant Boulouki project that Faidon covered in his conference paper. www.youtube.com/watch?featur...

Strengthening Collaboration Between the BSA & Charles University in Prague: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/18/s...

📣 Event reminder! Join us for next week's event by our current Artist in Residence Ilenia Cipollari (University of the Arts London). 📆 Mon 24 November 2025 ⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK) 📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online 🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/ileni...

🗳 Calling all BSA Supporters - you can now nominate a member of Council! 📅 Deadline: 19 December 2025 🔗 Info: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/17/n... ⚠️ Please note: Nominations may only be made by current BSA Supporters who are up to date with their subscriptions.

💫 A big BSA welcome! We're delighted to officially welcome our current Visiting Fellows, Students and Artist in Residence to the BSA for the academic year 2025-26.

📢 Vacancy on the Crete Subcommittee Applications are invited from those interested in becoming a member of the Crete Subcommittee to serve for four years from 1 April 2026. Check out our website to find out more! www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/07/v... Deadline: Friday 19 December

📢 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.