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Join us for Poetry Reading Night: "Insults To Rome", an evening of spoken word and live readings inspired by Samuel Hasler’s new artwork Insults To Rome — a playful invitation to look at the city through humour, irreverence, and strange affection.

https://bsr.ac.uk/poetry-reading-night-insults-to-rome/

Poetry Reading Night | Insults To Rome - bsr.ac.uk

An evening of words, in all kinds of forms blending art writing, poetry, performance, insults, and sweet nothings. The event takes the title of a new artwork ‘Insults To Rome’ by artist, Sam Hasler, as a starting point and a permission, to view the city with sly humour, impoliteness, strange satire, and mischief. Our intention […]

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British School at Rome 6d ago

How do you keep up with the news of the acquisitions of new volumes?
Have a look at the URBiS Library network, weekly acquisitions lists are available for you to view!

https://www.urbis-libnet.org/vufind/

On the same page, you can also browse the highlights posted by BSR and the other academies!
BSR’s latest news his month: Teaching Rome one century ago: The Roman Society Collection

https://researchprojects.bsr.ac.uk/s/roman-society/page/home

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British School at Rome May 6

The BSR is delighted to announce the publication of the volume 'Archaeologies of the Roman Mediterranean. Papers presented in honour of Professor Simon Keay', Edited by K. Strutt, A. Collar, P.S. Johnson and K. Crawford. The publication is the first in the new archaeology series with Archaeopress.

The volume may be purchased and is also available Open Access at the following link: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805831785

British School at Rome May 6

Students from the City of Rome course at the British School at Rome step into the past, gathered in an ancient nymphaeum near the Colosseum—where history surrounds you and every stone has a story to tell!

British School at Rome May 4

The British School at Rome features Alex Rowson, alumnus of the City of Rome Course.

Now a writer and historian, he reflects on how his time in Rome—from site visits to the Column of Marcus Aurelius to lectures and daily life at the BSR—shaped his career in historical storytelling.

Part of a new alumni series highlighting the lasting impact of BSR courses.

Summer School and City of Rome Course: Alumni in Focus | Alex Rowson - 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 catch up with some of our former students, their memories of the course and where they are now. Alex Rowson Who are you […]

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British School at Rome Apr 29

This morning’s City of Rome course took us beneath the surface to explore a lesser-known side of the city’s history.

Here are a few photos from our visit to the quarry under the Temple of Claudius on the Caelian Hill.

It was a valuable opportunity to see firsthand the spaces where building materials for ancient Rome were extracted, offering a deeper understanding of the city’s architectural development and the practical realities behind its monumental construction.

British School at Rome Apr 27

💫 Meet the Artist: Susie Green 💫

Abbey Fellow @abbeyawards Susie Green @susiegreen_ (January–March 2026) reflects on her residency at the BSR in a new blog—sharing how her time in Rome reshaped her research and artistic practice.

🔗 Read Susie’s blog: https://bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-artists-susie-green/

Meet the artists: Susie Green - bsr.ac.uk

Abbey Fellow Susie Green (January–March 2026) reflects on her residency at the BSR in a new blog. Sharing insights into her experience in Rome, she discusses the research she carried out during her time at the School and how it has shaped her practice. Spanning painting, performance, and sound, my work features feminine protagonists claiming […]

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British School at Rome Apr 22

💫 Meet the Fellow: Jonathan Steward 💫
Ralegh Radford Rome Awardee Jonathan Steward reflects on his research at the BSR in a new blog. Through his project Bodily Anxieties, the Sea, and the Dead in Ancient Rome, he explores how Romans imagined death—not as a fixed reality, but as something shaped by fear, memory, and cultural imagination.
https://bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-fellows-jonathan-steward/

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Jonathan Steward, Ralegh Radford Rome Awardee (January–March 2026), discusses his project Bodily Anxieties, the Sea, and the Dead in Ancient Rome in this blog. Sarcophagus fragment: fishermen drag up a corpse in their net. Rome, likely 2nd century AD. British Museum, inv. 1896,0619.3. Image: © The Trustees of the British Museum, under Creative Commons licence […]

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British School at Rome Apr 20

New post: Poetry Reading Night | Insults To Rome https://bsr.ac.uk/poetry-reading-night-insults-to-rome/

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British School at Rome Apr 20

City of Rome students are in Rome at the BSR!

In these photos, students are exploring the BSR marble collection in one image, while in the other they are enjoying lunch in the beautiful setting of Villa Celimontana.

During these eight weeks, students will have the opportunity to follow Dr. Christopher Siwicki around the city, discovering different areas of Rome and gaining privileged access to sites that are sometimes closed to the public.

Welcome! ✨