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📢 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”
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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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
The Turing Scheme
The Turing Scheme is the UK Government's global programme to provide funding for international opportunities in education and training across the world.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🎉 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.
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New Deadline! 17 Nov 2025!
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...
British School at Athens : Job Vacancy: Assistant Accountant
The British School at Athens (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 […]
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November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
⏰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-...
British School at Athens : The Art and Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece
www.bsa.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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...

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#underwaterarchaeology
#antikytherashipwreck
The Statues from the Antikythera Shipwreck, 125 Years Later « Classics# « Cambridge Core Blog
In the mid-1st century BCE, a freighter laden with Greek art was sailing westward in the Mediterranean when it crashed and rapidly foundered, taking some of its crew and passengers down with it. In 19...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
📢 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
British School at Athens : Library/Archive assistant – fixed term, 6 months
The British School at Athens 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 […]
www.bsa.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
📢 Event reminder!

📆 Tue 4 Nov 2025
⏰ 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (GR)
📍 online only
🔗 For more details and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../rebecca-...
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
📣 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...
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
⌛ 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-...
October 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
📣 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...
October 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
⛏ 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.
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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...
British School at Athens : Job Vacancy: Assistant Accountant
The British School at Athens (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 […]
www.bsa.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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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
Delighted to be joining @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social at the @britschoolathens.bsky.social on Oct 22nd to talk about our recent books and how Greece has changed our lives and shaped us as writers. The in-person event is sold out but can be attended online via the link.

www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...
October 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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...
British School at Athens : 28th October 2025 Closure
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 […]
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October 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🎙 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...
October 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🔔 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
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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...
British School at Athens : Minoan Vessels and Maritime Routes – a cultural event at Knossos
A cultural event titled Minoan Vessels and Maritime Routes was recently held with great success at the Knossos Research Centre. The event was organized by the Region of Crete, the […]
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October 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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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.
October 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
📣 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...
October 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🔔 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
October 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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...
October 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Reminder! Deadline 13 October
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...
October 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
📣 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...
September 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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-...
September 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM