British School at Rome

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...

💫 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...

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

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...

💫 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...

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...

AA Architecture Through Media Forums 2026 | Registration & Open Call - bsr.ac.uk The Architectural Association has launched the 2026 Architecture Through Media Forums, a series of high-impact, small-cohort gatherings exploring how architecture is made public through time-based med...

The Architectural Association has launched the 2026 Architecture Through Media Forums, a series exploring how architecture is communicated through film, publishing, design, exhibitions, and digital media. The first one will take place at the BSR.

More info: bsr.ac.uk/call-for-sub...

Convegni Eventi e convegni La Biblioteca FBK co-organizza e promuove eventi e convegni.Ciclo di eventiIl libro del mese Convegni2020: In "fondo" allo scaffale2022: Hubert Jedin. Storico del Concilio, cittadino...

Today, Raphaële Mouren (Head of Research Collections at the BSR) is taking part in the conference “Il rumore della carta”, with her presentation “Travelling with Books: Thomas Ashby’s Collection at the Library of the British School at Rome.”

More info: biblio.fbk.eu/convegni/#ru...

Material Environments | No More Water but the Fire Next Time: Excavating the Healing Landscape of San Casciano dei Bagni - bsr.ac.uk This is the second 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 eve...

This is the second in a series of lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the BSR.

🗓 10/12/25, 6 PM
No More Water but the Fire Next Time: Excavating the Healing Landscape of San Casciano dei Bagni W/ Jacopo Tabolli (Unistrasi): bsr.ac.uk/material-env...

Meet the Architect: Sibghat Khan - bsr.ac.uk In this blog, Sibghat Khan — Giles Worsley Rome Fellow at the BSR from September to December 2025 — reflects on his project “Rome and the Case for Living Monuments” and the research he will present at...

💫 Meet the Architect: Sibghat Khan 💫

Ahead of the Winter Open Studios 2025, Giles Worsley Rome Fellow (Sept–Dec 2025) Sibghat Khan shares reflections from his time at the BSR in a new blog exploring his project “Rome and the Case for Living Monuments.”

Read the blog: bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-arc...

📚✨ Holiday Hours Alert! ✨📚
Our Library and Archive will be taking a break from 20 December 2025 all the way to 6 January 2026.
We’ll miss you—but we’ll be back refreshed and ready for a new year!

And just a little heads-up: on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, the Library will close early at 12:30 PM.

The Jill Franklin Fellowship in Romanesque Architectural History - bsr.ac.uk Applications are invited for the 2026-7 Jill Franklin Fellowship in Romanesque Architectural History at the British School at Rome. The fellowship is tenable for one month and may be held at any point...

Applications are invited for the 2026-7 Jill Franklin Fellowship in Romanesque Architectural History at the British School at Rome.
The closing date for applications is 31st January, 2026: bsr.ac.uk/the-jill-fra...

We are pleased to invite you to this conference, which will take place on 4 December in Toronto, featuring BSR Archaeology Manager @stephenkay.bsky.social

Meet the artists: Danny Leyland - bsr.ac.uk In this blog, Danny Leyland—Abbey Scholar at the BSR from September 2025 to June 2026—shares reflections on his residency experience and the research he will present at the December 2025 Winter Open S...

💫 Meet the Artist: Danny Leyland💫
Ahead of Winter Open Studios 2025, Abbey Scholar Danny Leyland shares reflections on his BSR residency — from artist books made of fragments to paintings exploring the mystery of images.
Read his new blog: bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-art...

From 15 November to 12 April 2026, don’t miss the exhibition “Impressioni dal vero. La via Appia e la via Latina nei disegni di Maria Barosso” at the Capo di Bove archaeological complex in Rome, featuring pieces from the BSR Research Collection.

👉 More info: www.turismoroma.it/en/events/im...

Newcastle University & British School at Rome Bilateral Fellowships | Deadline 8 Dec 2025 - bsr.ac.uk Newcastle University and the British School at Rome have a well-established partnership across the Humanities and are developing new collaborative projects that build research capacity, promote knowle...

Are you a Newcastle University staff member? For the academic year 2025/26, one Fellowship will be available for to travel to the BSR - apply now!

bsr.ac.uk/newcastle-un...

Winter Open Studios 2025 - bsr.ac.uk The British School at Rome is delighted to present Winter Open Studios 2025, an event dedicated to studio visits of artists in residence at the BSR. The artists will be present with some of their work...

The BSR is delighted to present Winter Open Studios, an annual event that invites the public into the working spaces of our artists in residence. The opening night will take place on 3 December, from 6 to 9 pm, with an additional open session on 4 December, from 4 to 7 pm: bsr.ac.uk/winter-open-...

We were delighted to welcome figurative artist Jonathan Yeo to the BSR to meet our residents and see our amazing spaces!

Deadline extended: 28 November
Apply now!
bsr.ac.uk/research-pra...

The BSR was present at the #historyday!
#histday25
@senatehouselib.bsky.social

You’re Invited!
Join us for the conference “So Close and Yet So Far: A Critical Approach to Mobility in the Past”, organised in collaboration with the British School at Rome.

🗓 Date: 13 November
📍 Location: German Archaeological Institute, Via Sardegna 79, Rome

www.dainst.org/veranstaltun...

Now @theees.bsky.social is sat alongside our BIRI colleagues from @bsrome.bsky.social at #HistDay25 @ihr.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social

YouTube video by British School at Rome ‘I was determined to stay’: Suzanne Santoro – Art and 1970s Feminism in Rome

Suzanne Santoro in conversation with Dr Alessia Zinnari
‘I was determined to stay’: Suzanne Santoro – Art and 1970s Feminism in Rome
Watch the recording of the talk!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dloZ...

Meet the Fellows: Jess Venner - bsr.ac.uk Dr Jess Venner, Rome Awardee from the University of Oxford, shares insights into the development of her research project, “Mapping Urban Agricultural Spaces in Early Imperial Etruria and Latium: A Pil...

💫Meet the Fellows: Jess Venner💫
Dr Jess Venner, Rome Fellow at the BSR, is developing her project "Mapping Urban Agricultural Spaces in Early Imperial Etruria and Latium: A Pilot Study".

🔗Read Jess' blog and discover more about her research journey here: bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-fel...

Meet the artists: Sarah Casey - bsr.ac.uk Sarah Casey, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Research Resident at the BSR in October 2025, shares in this blog her reflections on her residency experience and the research she will present at the Winter Open ...

💫Meet the Artist: Sarah Casey💫

Ahead of the Winter Open Studios 2025, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Research Resident Sarah Casey shares her reflections on her time at the BSR in a new blog.

🔗 Read Sarah’s blog and discover more about her residency journey here: bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-art...

The award recognises his many years of archaeological research in the area, which began in 1998 at Falerii Novi.

We are immensely proud of Stephen’s achievements and his outstanding contribution to the study and preservation of the region’s rich archaeological heritage.

On Friday evening, @stephenkay.bsky.social, Archaeology Manager at the BSR, was awarded Honorary Citizenship (“Cittadinanza Onoraria”) by the Comune di Fabrica di Roma.

Read the blog by Beth Hicks John of Stiff & Trevillion Architects, reflecting on their experience taking part in this year’s Reading Rome architecture course at the BSR: www.stiffandtrevillion.com/journal/blog...

Rushforth Lecture | Plants, animals, and minerals in early medieval Rome - bsr.ac.uk Early medieval Rome had a distinctive ecology, owing to the city’s transformation from imperial capital to medieval metropolis. This fundamentally altered the relationships between human communities a...

Rushforth Lecture | Plants, Animals, and Minerals in Early Medieval Rome
🗓️ 19 November 2025
🕕 18:00–19:30
📍 In person & online
bsr.ac.uk/rushforth-le...

New book by Robert Coates-Stephens out now! - bsr.ac.uk The BSR is proud to announce the publication of a new book by Robert Coates-Stephens, Statues After the End of Sculpture, published by De Luca Editori. Between AD 500 and 1100, no three-dimensional sc...

Just out!
Robert Coates-Stephens’ Statues After the End of Sculpture is now on our weekly picks.
Come take a look!

👉 bsr.ac.uk/new-book-by-...

The research is part of a joint project with the @ics.bsky.social University of #London and the University of #Copenhagen, with the support of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades.

This past week, the archaeology team @stephenkay.bsky.social @emlynkd.bsky.social @levine.bsky.social & Sara Fabbri returned to Paros, Greece, for a second season of geophysical survey.