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125 years. An anniversary logo. Countless stories.
The BSR has shaped generations of scholars and artists — now we need your support and your stories of convivial living, creativity, and research at the BSR.
Every memory and every donation help shape the next 125 years: bsr.ac.uk/125th/
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125th 125th Celebrate 125 years of the BSR For 125 years, the British School at Rome (BSR) has been a beacon of cultural exchange, research excellence, and artistic innovation. Founded in 1901, the BS...
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✨ New on the BSR Blog! ✨
In our latest Alumni in Focus feature, Dr Hannah Cornwell shares her memories of the City of Rome Course (2006) and reflects on how her time at the BSR shaped her academic journey.

🔗 Read the full blog now:
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Summer School and City of Rome Course: Alumni in Focus | Dr Hannah Cornwell - bsr.ac.uk
For over thirty years the BSR has run undergraduate (Summer School) and postgraduate (City of Rome) courses on the ancient history, archaeology, and topography of Rome. In this new blog series we catc...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:57 AM
🎉 Volume 93 is here! The latest PBSR is now live in print and open access on JSTOR.
Featuring new research from our own Alessandra Tafaro and Elena Pomar, plus fresh archaeology reports from Stephen Kay and the BSR team.
Read it free: www.jstor.org/stable/e2744...
January 26, 2026 at 4:29 PM
An Ecological Turn | Viviana Checchia
🌱 Lecture | 4 Feb 2026, 18:00–19:30
Viviana Checchia explores how art institutions can learn from nature through multispecies thinking and Social Permaculture.
Hybrid & free | Register to watch online: bsr.ac.uk/lecture-an-e...
Lecture | An Ecological Turn - bsr.ac.uk
As part of the turn towards a more ecologically connected art institution, one that can expand towards multispecies understanding, Viviana will be questioning how exposure to nature can influence inst...
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January 19, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Material Environments | Andrew Wilson
🏛️ Lecture | 29 Jan 2026, 18:00–19:30 at the American Academy in Rome
Andrew Wilson examines Rome’s water-mills, aqueducts, and the Gothic siege of AD 537—and their lasting impact on the urban landscape.
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Material Environments | The Water-mills on the Janiculum and the Gothic Siege of Rome - bsr.ac.uk
This is the third in a series of lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic year 2025-2026. Through several even...
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January 19, 2026 at 11:14 AM
The BSR is excited to invite our community to follow Myth, History and Archaeology — a conversation with Peter Wiseman, Christopher Smith, and Liv Yarrow. Join us for this engaging event! ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
January 12, 2026 at 11:20 AM
125 years. An anniversary logo. Countless stories.
The BSR has shaped generations of scholars and artists — now we need your support and your stories of convivial living, creativity, and research at the BSR.
Every memory and every donation help shape the next 125 years: bsr.ac.uk/125th/
125th - bsr.ac.uk
125th 125th Celebrate 125 years of the BSR For 125 years, the British School at Rome (BSR) has been a beacon of cultural exchange, research excellence, and artistic innovation. Founded in 1901, the BS...
bsr.ac.uk
January 8, 2026 at 10:10 AM
✨ Now free to read! ✨

Discover Elena Pomar’s latest article in PBSR on water management and farming beyond the walls of Falerii Novi—revealing how water shaped a Roman peri-urban landscape.

Read it now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Now open access: Elena Pomar on water management & peri-urban agriculture at Falerii Novi (PBSR 93, 2025): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
WATER MANAGEMENT AND AGRICULTURAL EXPLOITATION BEYOND THE SOUTHERN CITY WALL OF FALERII NOVI | Papers of the British School at Rome | Cambridge Core
WATER MANAGEMENT AND AGRICULTURAL EXPLOITATION BEYOND THE SOUTHERN CITY WALL OF FALERII NOVI - Volume 93
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January 7, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Lecture, 14 Jan 2026 (18:00): Dr Oren Margolis on pontifex maximus in Quattrocento Rome. Hybrid & free: bsr.ac.uk/lecture-in-s...
Lecture | In Search of the pontifex maximus in Quattrocento Rome - bsr.ac.uk
In the roughly 1000 years after its supposed rejection by the emperor Gratian as ‘unlawful for a Christian’, the pagan title pontifex maximus was only rarely used of the popes and never by the popes t...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Looking forward to hosting this joint @ics.bsky.social / @bsrome.bsky.social event with Peter, @christophersmith.bsky.social, @profyarrow.bsky.social and @kathryntempest.bsky.social in a few weeks!

‘Myth, History and Archaeology’

Please do share and come along if in London 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky
January 7, 2026 at 2:56 PM
✨We’re excited to share the BSR programme for January–March 2026!✨

A new season of events is about to begin, and we look forward to seeing many of you in Rome very soon!

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December 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In this blog, Janette Parris, Bridget Riley Fellow from October 2025 to March 2026, reflects on her residency experience and the research she presented at the Winter Open Studios in December 2025.
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Meet the artists: Janette Parris - bsr.ac.uk
In this blog, Janette Parris, Bridget Riley Fellow from October 2025 to March 2026, reflects on her residency experience and the research she presented at the Winter Open Studios in December 2025. I a...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Dr Fiona Sit, Rome Awardee from the University of Leeds, shares insights into the development of her research project, “Refugee Identities and Sculptural Practice in Seventeenth-Century Rome.”
Read her blog now!
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Meet the fellows: Fiona Sit - bsr.ac.uk
Dr Fiona Sit, Rome Awardee from the University of Leeds, shares insights into the development of her research project, “Refugee Identities and Sculptural Practice in Seventeenth-Century Rome.” Giusepp...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🎄 Holiday wishes from the BSR team and our Award Holders!
A busy year full of new ideas, research challenges, shared discoveries, and hard work — wrapped up with vegan pudding, homemade torrone, and tombola 🎉
See you in January, with new things coming soon ✨
December 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Robert Adam Rome Scholarship in Architecture offers a 3-month fellowship for architects and scholars to explore the tradition and evolution of classical architecture in Rome and throughout Italy—examining its lasting impact on urban form.

🔗 Apply at the link in bio or:
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December 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The BSR is pleased to share that Giambattista Marras, Rome Fellow 2024–25, has published a new article in collaboration with Angela Trentacoste, PJ Smith Senior Fellow in Archaeology at the BSR.

Read it now: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🌟 The Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship 2026–2027 🌟
We’re delighted to announce the newly expanded three-month Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship at the BSR — supporting painters & draughtspeople and continuing Derek Hill’s legacy of artistic exchange in Italy.

Apply here: bsr.ac.uk/new-open-cal...
NEW OPEN CALL 2026-27: The Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship - bsr.ac.uk
The British School at Rome is delighted to partner with the Derek Hill Foundation in offering the Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship, newly expanded from two to three months. This residency continues D...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
💫 Meet the Artist: Bishwadhan Rai 💫
Sainsbury Scholar at the BSR from September to December 2025, Bishwadhan Rai reflects on his residency in a new blog, tracing the emotional, material, and intellectual currents that shaped his time in Italy: bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-art...
Meet the artists: Bishwadhan Rai - bsr.ac.uk
In this blog, Bishwadhan Rai —Sainsbury Scholar at the BSR from September to December 2025—shares reflections on his residency experience and the research he presented at the December 2025 Winter Open...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Great lecture tonight by Dr. Jacopo Tabolli, as part of the Material Environments series, in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome. Check our website to discover the programme: bsr.ac.uk/category/eve...
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
We’re thrilled to share that Dr Angela Trentacoste, PJ Smith Senior Fellow in Archaeology at the BSR, has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant!
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The British School at Rome and its community are saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Anna Gallina Zevi, for many years the Soprintendente of the archaeological park of Ostia Antica and an Honorary Fellow of the BSR.
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
💫 Meet the Artist: Owain Train McGilvary 💫

Creative Wales-BSR Fellow Owain Train McGilvary shares reflections from his residency at the BSR in a new blog.

🔗 Read Owain’s blog and discover more about his residency journey: bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-art...
Meet the artists: Owain Train McGilvary - bsr.ac.uk
In this blog, Owain Train McGilvary—Creative Wales-BSR Fellow at the BSR from September to December 2025—shares reflections on his residency experience and the research he presented at the December 20...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It’s Day of Giving! Support the BSR and help keep creativity alive in Rome. Every gift counts 💛
bsr.ac.uk/make-donation/

For more information, please contact development@bsrome.it
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
💫 Meet the Artist: Juan Bolivar 💫

Ahead of the Winter Open Studios 2025, UAL Rome Research Fellow Juan Bolivar shares reflections from his residency at the BSR in a new blog.

🔗 Read Juan’s blog here: bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-art...
Meet the artists: Juan Bolivar - bsr.ac.uk
In this blog, Juan Bolivar —UAL Rome Research Fellow at the BSR from September to December 2025—shares reflections on his residency experience and the research he will present at the December 2025 Win...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Richard Robinson reflects on the British School at Rome’s unexpected tea odyssey and the meaningful connections it reveals! Read the article here: www.madfestlondon.com/insights/art...
What a smuggled teabag taught me about Marketing
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December 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM