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British School at Athens

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The British School at Athens is a research institute for Hellenic studies across all fields and periods. Situated in the center of Athens, the school consists of a hostel for resident scholars, an extensive library with map and archive collections, a small museum, and the Fitch Laboratory for science-based archaeology. At Knossos, the BSA maintains a residential field center and Stratigraphical Museum which form the base for its excavations and research in Crete. Work conducted by the school was published in the Journal of Hellenic Studies until the establishment of the first volume of the Annual for the 1894–1895 session. Each year since 1955 the school has produced a digest of all fieldwork in Greece, Archaeology in Greece, jointly with the Hellenic Society and now supplemented online in a collaboration with the French school. The school’s website is at www.bsa.ac.uk.

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Further Reading

  • Beard, W.M. & C. A. Stray. 2005. The academy abroad: the nineteenth-century origin of the British School at Athens, in M. J. Daunton (ed.). The organisation of knowledge in Victorian Britain: 371–87. London: British Academy/OUP.

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  • Gill, D. W. J. 2011. Sifting the soil of Greece: the early years of the British School at Athens (1886–1919). London: ICS.

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  • Huxley, D. (ed.). 2000. Cretan quests: British explorers, excavators and historians. London: British School at Athens.

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  • Llewellyn-Smith, M., E. Calligas & P. Kitromilides. 2009. Scholars, travels, archives: Greek history and culture through the British School at Athens. London: British School at Athens.

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  • Waterhouse, H. 1986. The British School at Athens: the first hundred years. London: Thames and Hudson.

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  • Waterhouse, H. (ed.). 1989. Aνασκαφές: a celebration of the centenary of the British School at Athens, 1886–1986. London: Camberwell Press.

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    Claire Smith

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Pitt, R.K. (2014). British School at Athens. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1483

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