Annual Report 2008-9 - The British School at Rome
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T HE B RITISH S CHOOL AT R OME<br />
P<strong>at</strong>ron: HM <strong>The</strong> Queen<br />
President: HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady Ogilvy, KG, GCVO<br />
<strong>The</strong> mission of the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> is to promote knowledge of and deep engagement with all aspects of the art,<br />
history and culture of Italy by scholars and fine artists from Britain and the Commonwealth, and to foster intern<strong>at</strong>ional and<br />
interdisciplinary exchange.<br />
<strong>The</strong> BSR aims to support:<br />
■ residential awards for visual artists and architects<br />
■ residential awards for research in the archaeology, history, art history, society and culture of Italy<br />
■ exhibitions, especially in contemporary art<br />
■ an interdisciplinary programme of lectures and conferences<br />
■ research projects, including archaeological fieldwork<br />
■ a specialist research library<br />
■ a programme of public<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
■ short specialist taught courses.<br />
T HE B RITISH S CHOOL AT R OME<br />
Via Gramsci 61, 00197 <strong>Rome</strong>, Italy<br />
Tel. +39 06 3264939 Fax +39 06 3221201<br />
E-mail info@bsrome.it<br />
www.bsr.ac.uk<br />
BSR London Office (for scholarship and public<strong>at</strong>ions enquiries):<br />
<strong>The</strong> BSR <strong>at</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>British</strong> Academy<br />
10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH, UK<br />
Tel. +44 (0)20 79695202 Fax +44 (0)20 79695401<br />
E-mail bsr@britac.ac.uk<br />
Registered Charity no. 314176<br />
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A NNUAL R EPORT <strong>2008</strong>–2009<br />
<strong>Report</strong>s<br />
Chairman’s Foreword 3<br />
Director’s <strong>Report</strong> 4<br />
Herculaneum Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion Project 11<br />
Development 14<br />
Humanities Awards 15<br />
Humanities Activities 16<br />
Modern Studies 19<br />
Events 20<br />
Archaeology 22<br />
Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters 27<br />
Fine Arts Awards 28<br />
Fine Arts Scholars’ Activities 28<br />
Faculty of the Fine Arts 32<br />
Architecture Programme 33<br />
Public<strong>at</strong>ions 34<br />
Library and Archive 35<br />
Appendices<br />
Public<strong>at</strong>ions and Exhibitions by Staff 37<br />
Staff 39<br />
Trustees’ <strong>Report</strong> 40<br />
Financial St<strong>at</strong>ements 42<br />
Subcommittees and Honorary Fellows 51<br />
BSR Public<strong>at</strong>ions in Print 52<br />
Subscribers 54<br />
How to Support the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> 56<br />
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C HAIRMAN’ S F OREWORD<br />
It is not often th<strong>at</strong> one can use the phrase ‘end of an era’<br />
without being accused of hyperbole but in the case of<br />
the departure of Andrew Wallace-Hadrill after fourteen<br />
immensely distinguished years as the director of the BSR,<br />
there is no hint of exagger<strong>at</strong>ion. Not only has Andrew<br />
encouraged and nurtured significantly the academic<br />
activities of the <strong>School</strong> but he has carried out outstanding<br />
research in his own right, exemplified by his most recent<br />
book, <strong>Rome</strong>’s Cultural Revolution, and given the <strong>School</strong> an<br />
altogether higher profile. We have been fortun<strong>at</strong>e indeed<br />
to have enjoyed his services and those of Jo, whose selfsacrificing<br />
role has been critical, over such an extended<br />
and intellectually-exciting period and we are enormously<br />
gr<strong>at</strong>eful to them both. Andrew has also single-handedly<br />
brought the BSR and the Packard-funded Herculaneum<br />
Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion Project together and I am delighted th<strong>at</strong> our<br />
professional contact with Andrew will be maintained<br />
through the BSR’s continuing involvement with the<br />
project, where Andrew will remain as its Director. I also<br />
welcome Andrew to the ranks of heads of Oxbridge<br />
colleges where he is sure, in this next phase of his career,<br />
to play a role as distinguished as his last.<br />
Filling such large boots was never going to be easy but<br />
the search committee, led by the Deputy Chairman Tim<br />
Llewellyn, laboured throughout the spring sifting through<br />
an impressive field both qualit<strong>at</strong>ively and quantit<strong>at</strong>ively. We<br />
owe Tim and his team a real debt of gr<strong>at</strong>itude not least for<br />
the final outcome. Tim has also played a vital role over the<br />
last year in preparing a report on the future of the fine arts<br />
<strong>at</strong> BSR which was bold and imagin<strong>at</strong>ive. <strong>The</strong> new director<br />
will want to reflect on the extent to which the happy union<br />
of humanities scholars and artists, which is one of the<br />
distinguishing fe<strong>at</strong>ures of the BSR, can be protected and<br />
developed.<br />
We welcome as the fifteenth Director of the BSR,<br />
Professor Christopher Smith, a distinguished scholar and<br />
historian of early <strong>Rome</strong> and L<strong>at</strong>ium and someone who<br />
already has gre<strong>at</strong> experience of the BSR. With his str<strong>at</strong>egic<br />
management background, Christopher, and his wife Susan,<br />
are extremely well equipped to take the school forward <strong>at</strong> a<br />
time of gre<strong>at</strong> challenge, not least due to the difficulty<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>ed by the dram<strong>at</strong>ic decline in the value of sterling<br />
against the euro, the currency in which most of the<br />
<strong>School</strong>’s expenditure is incurred. <strong>The</strong> Council looks<br />
forward keenly to working with them.<br />
This year has seen the departure of Jenni Lomax as the<br />
Chair of the Faculty of the Fine Arts and from Council and<br />
her replacement by John Gill. Martin Millett and Chris<br />
Wickham have also resigned from Council during this year.<br />
John is a most welcome recruit, along with Graeme Barker,<br />
who has also joined Council in 2009. Our warmest thanks<br />
to Jenni, Martin and Chris for their sterling efforts. We also<br />
bid farewell to David Forgacs after his three-year stint as<br />
the inaugural Research Professor in Modern Studies.<br />
Thanks to David, the concept of modern studies is now<br />
firmly embedded in the <strong>School</strong>’s area of core activities.<br />
Departures and arrivals need to be seen in the wider<br />
context of the <strong>School</strong>’s activities. Details are to be found in<br />
the following pages but the continuing work on the<br />
Imperial harbour <strong>at</strong> Portus under Simon Keay’s tutelage,<br />
the Herculaneum Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion Project and the exhibition<br />
of the <strong>Rome</strong> photographs of F<strong>at</strong>her Peter Paul Mackey<br />
which opened <strong>at</strong> the Sir John Soane’s Museum in June<br />
have been particular but far from the only highlights. Jill<br />
Pellew’s work on the organis<strong>at</strong>ion and sponsorship and<br />
Valerie Scott’s cur<strong>at</strong>orship of the l<strong>at</strong>ter have been<br />
outstanding.<br />
In conclusion, I thank my fellow members of Council<br />
for their unswerving support in a difficult year of transition<br />
and change, and of course the staff of the BSR in <strong>Rome</strong><br />
and London for their professionalism and hard work<br />
during a particularly demanding period. As ever, Elly<br />
Murkett has been a real pillar of strength.<br />
Sir Ivor Roberts<br />
Chairman of Council<br />
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D IRECTOR’ S R EPORT<br />
For a director who has served the <strong>School</strong> for fourteen<br />
years, it is no easy thing to bid this institution farewell,<br />
nor to put into words wh<strong>at</strong> he owes it. My colleague David<br />
Forgacs, in his report below, his last after a three-year stint<br />
as the inaugural Research Professor in Modern Studies,<br />
says th<strong>at</strong> he ‘considers his three years based <strong>at</strong> BSR to have<br />
been without doubt the best research opportunity he has<br />
had in his career since he finished his doctor<strong>at</strong>e in 1978, as<br />
well as an uniquely rewarding social and intellectual<br />
experience’. Scarcely a scholar or fellow or award-winner<br />
leaves the <strong>School</strong> without this sense of regret and<br />
indebtedness. <strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> may set about justifying its<br />
existence in the modern world in a variety of ways.<br />
Recently the <strong>British</strong> Academy has been encouraging us to<br />
think in terms of wh<strong>at</strong> we bring back to the <strong>British</strong><br />
economy and n<strong>at</strong>ional welfare. But in the end, the litmus<br />
test is this: do those who pass through the institution<br />
bring back lasting profit from it? A director is no different<br />
from a research professor or a scholar. <strong>The</strong> telling<br />
question is not wh<strong>at</strong> you have done for the institution, but<br />
wh<strong>at</strong> it has done for you. My l<strong>at</strong>est, longest and hardest<br />
book, <strong>Rome</strong>’s Cultural Revolution, finally came out in<br />
November <strong>2008</strong>. I dedic<strong>at</strong>ed it to the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong><br />
<strong>Rome</strong> because I could only have written it here. <strong>The</strong><br />
opportunity the <strong>School</strong> has given me to widen my<br />
horizons, to immerse myself in the archaeology and<br />
m<strong>at</strong>erial culture of Italy, and to meet and make friends<br />
with a range of Italian and other intern<strong>at</strong>ional scholars and<br />
draw stimulus and inspir<strong>at</strong>ion from them, is unthinkable<br />
without having this base for <strong>British</strong> scholars in <strong>Rome</strong>. And<br />
this is only an example of the debt I owe. Running such an<br />
institution makes gre<strong>at</strong> demands, not just on time. But if<br />
the cause is a good one, the effort brings its own reward.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> is extraordinarily rewarding<br />
cause to work for, because it repays your efforts and<br />
flourishes, something impossible if the institution had not<br />
been set up right in the first place, and if it did not have a<br />
valid place in the contemporary world.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> past year, like those before it, has been one of<br />
vigorous and varied activity, but now in the face of real<br />
financial hardship. <strong>The</strong> collapse of sterling since September<br />
2007 has been c<strong>at</strong>astrophic, from a purchasing power of<br />
nearly 1.5 euros to the pound to something very close to<br />
parity <strong>at</strong> its lowest point in March 2009. <strong>The</strong> drop may be<br />
advantageous for the <strong>British</strong> economy, but for a <strong>British</strong><br />
institution oper<strong>at</strong>ing in the euro-zone (the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong><br />
Athens being equally affected), with an income stream<br />
almost wholly in sterling, and expenditures largely in euros,<br />
the impact is very severe.<br />
We have had to rein in spending on many fronts. One of<br />
the first to be hit was the Contemporary Arts Programme.<br />
For ten years, Cristiana Perrella has run an exceptionally<br />
lively programme of contemporary art shows, in recent<br />
years being able to make use of our new Gallery space. <strong>The</strong><br />
programme has enjoyed the highest respect within the<br />
Roman art world. On the basis of minimal funding, she has<br />
pulled off a programme th<strong>at</strong> has been the envy of far betterfunded<br />
institutions in <strong>Rome</strong>. For the last year, the funding<br />
situ<strong>at</strong>ion has forced us to abandon the programme. Yet the<br />
<strong>School</strong> is determined to reaffirm its commitment to<br />
contemporary art. Over the last year, one of our Trustees,<br />
Tim Llewellyn, now free from his responsibilities as<br />
Director of the Henry Moore Found<strong>at</strong>ion, has drawn up, in<br />
consult<strong>at</strong>ion with numerous parties inside and outside the<br />
institution, a document on the future of the fine arts <strong>at</strong><br />
BSR. <strong>The</strong> commitment is there, and the conclusion is th<strong>at</strong><br />
we should aim higher, <strong>at</strong>tracting artists of the highest<br />
calibre, and making a ‘<strong>Rome</strong> prize’ as sought after as an<br />
award like the Turner Prize.<br />
In the deb<strong>at</strong>e on the future of the fine arts, a key role is<br />
played by the <strong>British</strong> Academy. By happy chance, this year<br />
was the BSR’s turn for a periodic review. We now absorb<br />
over one million pounds a year of public finance (though<br />
our accounts show how, on the back of th<strong>at</strong>, we gener<strong>at</strong>e <strong>at</strong><br />
least double, or including the Herculaneum project, four<br />
times the amount of non-public finance). We are a heavy
Andrew and Jo Wallace-Hadrill and <strong>School</strong> staff and residents, June 2009 — a photograph by Photoworks Fellow David Spero<br />
commitment for a n<strong>at</strong>ional academy with stretched<br />
resources, and it is healthy th<strong>at</strong> there be an open dialogue,<br />
with each side understanding the other’s difficulties and<br />
priorities. <strong>The</strong> committee which provides our funding<br />
benefits from a high-calibre team, including the CEO,<br />
Robin Jackson, the Chairman of the committee, Professor<br />
Michael Fulford, and the head of the programme, Margot<br />
Jackson. <strong>The</strong>se three, together with our assessors from the<br />
committee, Professors Tony Allan and Leslie Brubaker,<br />
spent the best part of a week looking <strong>at</strong> every aspect of our<br />
oper<strong>at</strong>ions, and produced a report th<strong>at</strong> was complimentary,<br />
realistic, and constructive. It will be an important starting<br />
point in thinking about future directions for the BSR.<br />
One of the issues raised by their report is the role of the<br />
fine arts within the institution. <strong>The</strong> <strong>British</strong> Academy is the<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ional body responsible for the promotion of the<br />
humanities and social sciences. It has no remit for the visual<br />
arts and architecture, and the fellowship has no<br />
represent<strong>at</strong>ion in those disciplines. <strong>The</strong> question therefore is<br />
of the extent to which the Academy can take responsibility<br />
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D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R T<br />
for th<strong>at</strong> side of our activities. Part of the answer is th<strong>at</strong> our<br />
programme of arts scholarships depends entirely on<br />
external sponsorship or on our trust funds (the Sargant<br />
bequest, the proceeds of a London property left us by the<br />
painter F.W. Sargant, is the largest single element in our<br />
endowment). Further Fine Arts scholarships are funded by<br />
the Linbury Trust (funding two annual scholarships), the<br />
Abbey Awards (funding one annual scholarship and three<br />
three-month fellowships), the Australia Council for the Arts<br />
(four three-month residencies), the Northern Ireland Arts<br />
Council (one annual scholarship in altern<strong>at</strong>ing years), the<br />
Derek Hill Found<strong>at</strong>ion (one three-month award), and the<br />
collabor<strong>at</strong>ion between the Arts Council England, the Ruskin<br />
<strong>School</strong> of Drawing and Fine Art, and St Peter’s College,<br />
Oxford, which support the Helen Chadwick Fellowship in<br />
both <strong>Rome</strong> and Oxford. This year we have welcomed for<br />
the first time a three-month award for a photographer<br />
supported by Photoworks, a three-month award in<br />
architecture supported by the Conseil des Arts et des<br />
Lettres du Québec, and the first holder of the Giles Worsley<br />
Travel Fellowship in Architecture. It will be a target in<br />
coming years to strengthen and increase this income stream,<br />
but it is worth noting th<strong>at</strong> it has proved much harder<br />
finding external support for awards in the Humanities,<br />
where the honourable exceptions are the Paul Mellon<br />
Centre for Studies in <strong>British</strong> Art, supporting a distinguished<br />
series of Mellon Fellows, and in Australia, the Bill and Janet<br />
Gale Found<strong>at</strong>ion supporting a remarkable series of ancient<br />
historians from Macquarie University, and Don and Jane<br />
Morley supporting three-month awards in art history from<br />
Melbourne.<br />
But the most important consider<strong>at</strong>ion, to this Director <strong>at</strong><br />
least, is the following. It is the combin<strong>at</strong>ion of academic<br />
research and cre<strong>at</strong>ive activity in the fine arts th<strong>at</strong> has<br />
determined the character and strength of the institution,<br />
ever since the cre<strong>at</strong>ion of the new building and programme<br />
of arts scholarship by the 1851 Commission in 1912. From<br />
one point of view, academics and artists inhabit different<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Contemporary Value of Industrial Architecture, by Rebecca Madgin,<br />
Giles Worsley Travel Fellow<br />
worlds, and th<strong>at</strong> is why the union is so stimul<strong>at</strong>ing, unusual,<br />
and successful. But in contemporary conditions, the gap has<br />
narrowed dram<strong>at</strong>ically. Artists and architects are not so<br />
much concerned with making beautiful things, but in<br />
understanding, visually interpreting and representing and<br />
refashioning the world around them. Our modernist<br />
professor, David Forgacs, rapidly found th<strong>at</strong> those who<br />
were closest to his own interests, whether in immigrants in<br />
Italy and their marginalis<strong>at</strong>ion, or in the represent<strong>at</strong>ion of<br />
Italian society in film, were the fine artists, with Jacopo<br />
Benci as a rich source of stimulus in such fields. Our<br />
enterprises are much more closely cogn<strong>at</strong>e than the<br />
traditional disciplinary separ<strong>at</strong>ion suggests. Our inaugural<br />
Giles Worsley Travel Fellow, Rebecca Madgin, came from a<br />
social sciences faculty; but her work on urban regener<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
in the once-industrial area of Ostiense linked to the interests<br />
of gener<strong>at</strong>ions of architects working here, and instantly<br />
struck a chord with the Sainsbury Scholar in Painting, Celia<br />
Hempton, whose theme was abandoned industrial<br />
landscapes. <strong>The</strong> fine arts, far from being irrelevant to the<br />
remit of the Academy, are wh<strong>at</strong> ensures th<strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong><br />
engages with contemporary issues as well as the past.<br />
Another area in which the financial pressure is felt is the<br />
Humanities programme of conferences and lectures<br />
organised by the Assistant Director, Sue Russell. Yet,<br />
despite a halving of the budget, activity has remained<br />
intense: seven conferences, three present<strong>at</strong>ions, and 35
lectures represent no diminution of the levels of activity of<br />
previous years. <strong>The</strong> enormous advantage of our renewed<br />
facilities is th<strong>at</strong> we can handle such events <strong>at</strong> minimal cost,<br />
and the advantage of a base in <strong>Rome</strong> is th<strong>at</strong> there is never a<br />
shortage of willing speakers and participants. <strong>The</strong><br />
programme has included <strong>at</strong> least four regular elements: Sue<br />
Russell’s own art history programme, Simon Keay’s<br />
archaeology workshops, Robert Co<strong>at</strong>es-Stephens’s City of<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> programme, and present<strong>at</strong>ions by our own fellows and<br />
scholars. Taken together with the Fine Arts programme, the<br />
three annual shows of our artists, Marina Engel’s<br />
Architecture programme of present<strong>at</strong>ions accompanied by<br />
exhibitions by young architects, not to speak of a range of<br />
informal present<strong>at</strong>ions and events by the arts scholars, and<br />
one concert by our Youth Music Found<strong>at</strong>ion of Australia<br />
Scholar, it has meant an extraordinary rich and stimul<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
experience for everyone here. It is th<strong>at</strong> vibrancy th<strong>at</strong> makes<br />
the <strong>School</strong> special, and the residents could not have given Jo<br />
and myself a better farewell than their tableau vivant on the<br />
D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R T<br />
Odyssey frieze, which managed to combine the research<br />
interest of a Roman art historian, Marden Nichols, with the<br />
interest in semi-decipherable landscapes of an artist, Celia<br />
Hempton, supported by a cast of three artists, one architect<br />
and one archaeologist. Thus our p<strong>at</strong>hs converge.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Library is particularly sensitive to financial shortfalls.<br />
Book prices, especially those of periodicals, constantly rise,<br />
and electronic media, far from easing the cost burden, prove<br />
to be an additional expense. Yet cutting back on book<br />
purchases does a collection permanent damage: it is rare to<br />
be able to make up missing volumes in l<strong>at</strong>er years, and the<br />
correct response is to specialise even more, cutting out any<br />
areas th<strong>at</strong> are marginal. Ironically, the Library, despite these<br />
difficulties, has never been so intensely used, the temporary<br />
closure of the German Archaeological Institute and the<br />
V<strong>at</strong>ican cre<strong>at</strong>ing a surge of refugees. In these straits, the<br />
support of the Packard Humanities Institute in providing<br />
additional staff to cope with the extra work, and to extend<br />
opening hours, has been especially valuable. Valerie Scott<br />
Second Style: an Odyssey<br />
Frieze, a performance<br />
directed by Ralegh<br />
Radford <strong>Rome</strong> Scholar<br />
Marden Nichols<br />
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has been able to ensure th<strong>at</strong> despite the surge in reader<br />
numbers, the Library has retained its welcoming<br />
<strong>at</strong>mosphere.<br />
Valerie Scott has also carried forward, despite the tough<br />
financial clim<strong>at</strong>e, her programme of projects and exhibitions<br />
of m<strong>at</strong>erial from our archive of historical photographs and<br />
other m<strong>at</strong>erial. <strong>The</strong> Getty Found<strong>at</strong>ion has been a key ally<br />
in recent years, and the workshop held in Los Angeles on<br />
Sir William Gell, <strong>at</strong> which both Valerie and I spoke,<br />
underlined our common interests. A new ally is the Sir John<br />
Soane Museum, which proved the perfect partner for an<br />
exhibition of the <strong>Rome</strong> photographs of F<strong>at</strong>her Peter Paul<br />
Mackey. <strong>The</strong> sponsors who made this possible are thanked<br />
below, but it is right here to pay tribute to the energy and<br />
determin<strong>at</strong>ion of the team of Jill Pellew and Valerie Scott,<br />
who ensured th<strong>at</strong> the right support was found. Such<br />
partnerships are an essential way forward for the future, and<br />
the ongoing series of photographic exhibitions is another<br />
point where the disciplines converge; photography and fine<br />
art on the one hand (and our new partnership with<br />
Photoworks is also relevant here), and archaeology and the<br />
history of art on the other.<br />
I turn finally, among our activities, to archaeology. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>British</strong> Academy is keen to emphasise th<strong>at</strong> the institutes it<br />
supports abroad are not simply bases for archaeological<br />
fieldwork, and the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> is equally keen to remind<br />
them th<strong>at</strong> our aims have never been limited in this way.<br />
Nevertheless, archaeology has a fundamental role in our<br />
mission. If it were not for the physical reality of the past, it<br />
might not be so necessary to spend long periods of time<br />
abroad in trying to get to grips with it. Ancient historians<br />
(including myself) and classical philologists and even art<br />
historians might sit <strong>at</strong> home in their libraries. But the past is<br />
physically present, even when it seems invisible, as in the<br />
street p<strong>at</strong>terns of contemporary <strong>Rome</strong> or Naples (or for th<strong>at</strong><br />
m<strong>at</strong>ter most other Italian cities), which continue to steer<br />
humans between modern buildings down routes used for<br />
thousands of years. <strong>The</strong> study of the physical traces of the<br />
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past will always be the core activity of this institution. But it<br />
is not the focus of a narrow disciplinary subset. It is an<br />
inherently interdisciplinary activity. Every group of residents<br />
who visit a monument rapidly understands how the presence<br />
of artists and architects, art historians and social scientists,<br />
field archaeologists and philologists, converges in the reading<br />
of the visible past. <strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> is not merely a facility: it is a<br />
missionary enterprise th<strong>at</strong> seeks to convert all those who<br />
come through it to an understanding of this visible, physical<br />
past. Our Hugh Last Fellow, Stephen Heyworth, a<br />
distinguished editor of L<strong>at</strong>in poetry from Oxford, left a<br />
convert to topography, the discipline of Sir William Gell and<br />
Thomas Ashby, and their successors today, like Filippo<br />
Coarelli and Robert Co<strong>at</strong>es-Stephens.<br />
Working <strong>at</strong> Herculaneum in an ambitious project of<br />
conserv<strong>at</strong>ion, I have learned above all th<strong>at</strong> archaeology is<br />
neither a single discipline, nor one th<strong>at</strong> can exist in<br />
isol<strong>at</strong>ion. We always knew th<strong>at</strong> archaeologists would have<br />
to join hands with architects, conserv<strong>at</strong>ors, surveyors and<br />
engineers to address the problems of the site, and to keep<br />
wh<strong>at</strong> I have called the ‘visible past’ in such a st<strong>at</strong>e to ensure<br />
its visibility to future gener<strong>at</strong>ions. Wh<strong>at</strong> has taken me by<br />
surprise is the number of other disciplines we have found<br />
ourselves involving. Geologists have taught us to<br />
understand the long process of volcanic eruption and the<br />
transform<strong>at</strong>ions, sometimes slow, sometimes alarmingly<br />
rapid, of the landscape. Chemists have shown us how to<br />
analyse the salts th<strong>at</strong> e<strong>at</strong> away frescoes and the mortars and<br />
grouting th<strong>at</strong> affect the ancient surfaces. Computer<br />
specialists have shown how a Laser Speckle Interferometer<br />
or Polynomial Texture Mapping can reveal otherwise<br />
invisible faults or bring back ancient colours. It is not just<br />
the applic<strong>at</strong>ion of high-tech solutions. <strong>The</strong> world of<br />
heritage management brought together by ICCROM has<br />
taught us th<strong>at</strong> beyond technical solutions, you have to work<br />
on the right rel<strong>at</strong>ions with the stakeholders, from visitor<br />
management to rel<strong>at</strong>ions with the local community.<br />
Urbanists and social scientists have taught us to study a site
in its social context. And needless to say, our own artists,<br />
like Liz Rideal and Penelope Cain, have taught us the<br />
power of art in the process of communic<strong>at</strong>ion. Liz Rideal’s<br />
projection upon ancient Roman structures of video footage<br />
of laundry hung to dry in the narrow streets showed a new<br />
way to visualise the dialogue of then and now.<br />
<strong>The</strong> projects of our Research Professor in Archaeology,<br />
Simon Keay, are the jewel in our institutional crown. <strong>The</strong><br />
gre<strong>at</strong> artificial harbour <strong>at</strong> Portus built by emperors from<br />
Claudius to Trajan has passed in his hands from being one<br />
of the most neglected and ill-understood of Imperial sites to<br />
a key source for understanding the economy and trade of an<br />
empire which thought itself global. Yet it is a sign of the<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ure of th<strong>at</strong> empire th<strong>at</strong> where he expected to excav<strong>at</strong>e<br />
port install<strong>at</strong>ions, moles, docks and warehouses, he seems to<br />
have found an Imperial palace, complete with its own toy<br />
amphithe<strong>at</strong>re and sculptural decor<strong>at</strong>ion. At the same time,<br />
the team he has built up with expertise in geophysical<br />
prospection has continued to obtain important new<br />
inform<strong>at</strong>ion about sites, from the heart of <strong>Rome</strong> (Piazza<br />
della Repubblica), to Italian sites like Gabii, Ardea, Villa<br />
Magna and Atella, to Ammaia in Portugal and Leptis Magna<br />
in Libya.<br />
One of the crucial questions th<strong>at</strong> still faces the <strong>School</strong> is<br />
how broad its geographical remit should be. Should we<br />
concentr<strong>at</strong>e our resources on <strong>Rome</strong> and Italy, or spread<br />
more widely in the Mediterranean, especially in countries of<br />
North Africa, in the Iberian peninsular, and in the islands<br />
(including Malta), where Britain has otherwise no base or<br />
institute? Before the collapse of sterling, the <strong>School</strong> was<br />
developing a programme of broader engagement with the<br />
western Mediterranean, of which the stimul<strong>at</strong>ing conference<br />
Identifying the Punic Mediterranean was a valuable fruit.<br />
Finances are now tighter, yet the cre<strong>at</strong>ion of intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
networks is not necessarily costly. My own belief is th<strong>at</strong><br />
there is still scope for more active exploit<strong>at</strong>ion of the<br />
network of foreign academies th<strong>at</strong> makes <strong>Rome</strong> special, and<br />
of more collabor<strong>at</strong>ive enterprises.<br />
D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R T<br />
One organis<strong>at</strong>ion th<strong>at</strong> exists to promote such<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ional exchange is AIAC, the Intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
Associ<strong>at</strong>ion of Classical Archaeology. <strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> played a<br />
major part in helping to organise AIAC’s quinquennial<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ional congress, on the 50 th anniversary of the last<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> congress. With over a thousand participants, it was a<br />
major logistical challenge, and it could not have been pulled<br />
off without a team of research assistants, including (on the<br />
BSR side) Aimee Forster, Martina dalla Riva, Valentina da<br />
Pozzo and Chris Siwicki, to all of whom I am profoundly<br />
gr<strong>at</strong>eful. <strong>The</strong> importance of the congress, with its strong<br />
them<strong>at</strong>ic organis<strong>at</strong>ion around the topic of ‘Meetings of<br />
cultures in the ancient Mediterranean’, was to remind us all<br />
of the potential of intern<strong>at</strong>ional research networks, and ones<br />
th<strong>at</strong> do not neglect the Islamic lands of North Africa and<br />
the Levant. BSR is in a strong position to ensure a <strong>British</strong><br />
engagement with such intern<strong>at</strong>ional networks, and th<strong>at</strong> is a<br />
cause th<strong>at</strong> merits further investment of money and effort.<br />
Drappeggio in Ercolano by Liz Rideal (Wing<strong>at</strong>e Scholar <strong>2008</strong>–9),<br />
projected onto the Aurelian Wall, <strong>Rome</strong><br />
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D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R T<br />
I end with thanks. <strong>The</strong> debts accumul<strong>at</strong>ed over fourteen<br />
years, both institutionally and individually, are too many to<br />
list, and can only be hinted <strong>at</strong>. To list all is impossible, to<br />
mention only some is invidious. I therefore thank them by<br />
classes, with symbolic represent<strong>at</strong>ives, and yet to each<br />
member of each class I am deeply beholden. Our sponsors,<br />
whether the <strong>British</strong> Academy, or the numerous found<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
and bodies th<strong>at</strong> support scholarships and activities, provide<br />
our life blood. I pick out two exceptional couples, who may<br />
stand symbolically for the rest, and who have stuck with us<br />
loyally over these years: the Sainsburys, John and Anya,<br />
who visited us again last October, and have championed<br />
the Fine Arts, and the Packards, David and Pam, who, not<br />
content with helping us build the Library extension and to<br />
conserve Herculaneum, have supported the Library again<br />
in its hour of need, and supported AIAC and its web-based<br />
Fasti Online, and thus the cause of making inform<strong>at</strong>ion on<br />
new excav<strong>at</strong>ions intern<strong>at</strong>ionally accessible. Within the<br />
institution, we are indebted to the colleagues, in <strong>Rome</strong> and<br />
London, who form an outstandingly successful team. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong> has been exceptionally fortun<strong>at</strong>e to be able to draw<br />
on so much talent and devotion <strong>at</strong> so many levels, whether<br />
among academic colleagues, or in the support staff in the<br />
offices, the Library, the maintenance, cleaning and c<strong>at</strong>ering<br />
departments. As symbolic represent<strong>at</strong>ive of the staff, I<br />
mention Sue Russell, our exceptionally successful Assistant<br />
Director, to whose efforts and presence the <strong>School</strong> owes<br />
not only its flourishing events programme but its cheerful<br />
<strong>at</strong>mosphere. But we are also indebted to a wider group<br />
based in London, to the committee members, on Faculties<br />
and Council, who give up their precious time, sometimes<br />
more than they had bargained for, to give advice and<br />
guidance. As represent<strong>at</strong>ive of all of them, I thank Sir Ivor<br />
Roberts, who in taking on the Chairmanship never dreamt<br />
he would have to handle the endless complic<strong>at</strong>ions of<br />
replacing the Director. <strong>The</strong> choice made by Council is an<br />
outstanding one. Christopher Smith brings to this role not<br />
only academic distinction and experience <strong>at</strong> the highest<br />
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Jo Wallace-Hadrill<br />
level of university administr<strong>at</strong>ion, but a long knowledge and<br />
love of the <strong>School</strong>. I wish him and Susan a happy and<br />
successful time here, and warn them in advance th<strong>at</strong> it<br />
won’t be easy to leave.<br />
Finally, I register two personal thanks. Elly Murkett as<br />
Director’s Assistant has successfully kept <strong>at</strong> bay<br />
innumerable distractions, enabling me to focus on projects<br />
and writing; the <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>, which she edits, is just one<br />
illustr<strong>at</strong>ion of the high standards she sets. Above all, I want<br />
to thank my wife, Jo. She gave up a full-time career as a<br />
teacher to come to <strong>Rome</strong>, and left family and friends<br />
further behind than she wanted. <strong>The</strong> sacrifices a Director’s<br />
wife makes receive little institutional acknowledgement. Yet<br />
she has always placed herself <strong>at</strong> the heart of the residential<br />
community, managing to remember the constant succession<br />
of names and faces long after others have given up trying,<br />
administering advice and comfort, offering drinks and harp<br />
recitals, and even teaching L<strong>at</strong>in to those who have asked.<br />
When we arrived, she planted the cortile with roses. We<br />
were warned th<strong>at</strong> this was no place for roses, and th<strong>at</strong> they<br />
would soon be dead. <strong>The</strong>y have flowered unfailingly every<br />
year for fourteen years, in a flowering season th<strong>at</strong> stretches<br />
from April to December. Without her touch, these years<br />
would have been very different.<br />
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill<br />
Director
H ERCULANEUM C ONSERVATION P ROJECT<br />
<strong>The</strong> major project <strong>at</strong> Herculaneum initi<strong>at</strong>ed by the<br />
Packard Humanities Institute, and put into effect by<br />
the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong>, in close collabor<strong>at</strong>ion with the<br />
Archaeological Superintendency (which now reunites<br />
Pompeii with Naples), is now in its eighth year of activity.<br />
Advances can be reported on two principal fronts. <strong>The</strong><br />
first is in the campaign to address the problems of the<br />
infrastructure of the site and bring the movement of w<strong>at</strong>er<br />
under control. As roofs are progressively repaired, and the<br />
ancient drainage network put back into action, so the<br />
problems mount <strong>at</strong> the lowest point of the site, where in<br />
antiquity the town came down to the sea. A major project<br />
of clearing and draining the ancient shoreline has led to a<br />
series of important results. Dram<strong>at</strong>ic evidence accumul<strong>at</strong>es<br />
of how severely the buildings — especially the Suburban<br />
B<strong>at</strong>hs, which were built out to meet the shoreline <strong>at</strong> a<br />
period when the sea had retre<strong>at</strong>ed — were l<strong>at</strong>er damaged<br />
as the land rose and the sea returned. This is the result of<br />
the phenomenon called bradyseism whereby the earth’s<br />
crust rises and falls in the build-up to an eruption. <strong>The</strong><br />
most unexpected find has been the remains of the<br />
collapsed roof of a nearby building, tossed by the force of<br />
the firestorm of a pyroclastic surge to the beach down<br />
below. It is possible from this find to reconstruct the<br />
entire carpentry of a Roman roof, including its woodpanelled<br />
ceiling.<br />
<strong>The</strong> second principal area of work has been on the<br />
north-western edge of the site, were preliminary work is<br />
underway to assess the possibilities of new excav<strong>at</strong>ion of<br />
the Basilica. A georadar survey by the BSR/Archaeological<br />
Prospection Services Southampton team gave impressive<br />
but r<strong>at</strong>her impenetrable results. Reopening the Bourbon<br />
tunnels has cast a flood of light. <strong>The</strong> old tunnels are more<br />
numerous and complex than anyone had imagined, a<br />
veritable rabbit-warren; the pottery left behind in the<br />
backfill suggests people had been exploring long before the<br />
official start of excav<strong>at</strong>ions under the Bourbons in 1738. A<br />
rich harvest of other finds includes some fragmentary<br />
inscriptions and the gemstone from a signet. <strong>The</strong> walls of<br />
the tunnels have exposed some rich fresco-work. <strong>The</strong> most<br />
impressive find, however, came not from this area, but<br />
from the western edge of the town, where our team were<br />
giving assistance: a brilliant insight by Mimmo Esposito led<br />
to the discovery of a fine ‘neo-Attic’ marble relief.<br />
<strong>The</strong> project has involved increasingly close collabor<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
with the personnel of the Soprintendenza, especially the site<br />
director, Maria Paola Guidobaldi, and above all the<br />
Soprintendente himself, Piero Guzzo. Without his vision,<br />
courage and determin<strong>at</strong>ion, this project could never have<br />
happened, and he will be sorely missed on his retirement<br />
this September. We are also indebted to the Comune of<br />
Ercolano, and its Mayor, Nino Daniele, for enthusiastically<br />
embracing the project, and promoting the new Intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
Study Centre to bring about closer links between the<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ional world of specialists and visitors and the local<br />
community. Work is now finished on the restor<strong>at</strong>ion of the<br />
Villa Maiuri, where the previous study centre, named after<br />
the gre<strong>at</strong> archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri, had its se<strong>at</strong>; and we<br />
look forward to moving into these new premises in the<br />
autumn. Our warmest thanks go to the Mayor and his staff,<br />
to the Soprintendenza, to the tireless members of the<br />
project team led by Jane Thompson, and above all to David<br />
and Pam Packard, without whose enthusiasm and support<br />
there would literally be no project.<br />
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill<br />
Director, Herculaneum Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion Project<br />
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Right: Excav<strong>at</strong>ion of<br />
ancient shore bene<strong>at</strong>h<br />
the house of the<br />
Telephus Relief,<br />
Herculaneum<br />
Far right: Excav<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of roof timbers fallen<br />
to the shore from the<br />
house of the Telephus<br />
Relief, Herculaneum<br />
H E R C U L A N E U M C O N S E R V A T I O N P R O J E C T<br />
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Left: Detail of column<br />
with lion masks from<br />
frescoed wall in the<br />
Basilica,<br />
Herculaneum<br />
Right: Reopening of<br />
Bourbon tunnels in<br />
the Basilica,<br />
Herculaneum
Left: Mimmo<br />
Camardo inspects<br />
marble plaque<br />
from the Basilica,<br />
Herculaneum,<br />
with faded ink<br />
inscription<br />
H E R C U L A N E U M C O N S E R V A T I O N P R O J E C T<br />
Left: Discovery of neo-Attic<br />
relief in house in south-west<br />
corner of Herculaneum<br />
Above: Detail of two heads<br />
from the same relief<br />
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D EVELOPMENT<br />
<strong>The</strong> principle effort of those working on the<br />
development programme this year has been ensuring<br />
th<strong>at</strong> the joint <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong>–Sir John Soane’s<br />
Museum exhibition, Immagini e Memoria, <strong>Rome</strong> in the<br />
Photographs of F<strong>at</strong>her Peter Paul Mackey 1890–1901, was<br />
properly funded and well organised. This has meant close<br />
co-oper<strong>at</strong>ion between the Librarian and the Chair of<br />
Development. Last year’s promotional event <strong>at</strong> the John and<br />
Virginia Murray Centre was the starting-point for the<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>ion of a supportive group of funders. <strong>The</strong>se kind wellwishers<br />
helped with both the costs of bringing over an<br />
expanded version of the original <strong>Rome</strong> exhibition and also<br />
the cre<strong>at</strong>ion of a scholarly and beautifully produced<br />
c<strong>at</strong>alogue edited by the exhibition cur<strong>at</strong>or, Valerie Scott<br />
(BSR Librarian), with a fascin<strong>at</strong>ing introduction and<br />
c<strong>at</strong>alogue entries by Robert Co<strong>at</strong>es-Stephens, BSR Cary<br />
Fellow. Thus sufficient funds, th<strong>at</strong> virtually covered the<br />
costs, were raised with the hope of a profit through the sales<br />
of the c<strong>at</strong>alogue (to be re-invested in other Library and<br />
Archive initi<strong>at</strong>ives). Generous individuals included<br />
Professor and Mrs Peter Wiseman and Mr Gifford Combs;<br />
and a particularly supportive trust was the Paul Mellon<br />
Centre for Studies in <strong>British</strong> Art.<br />
<strong>The</strong> exhibition, held <strong>at</strong> Sir John Soane’s Museum in<br />
Lincoln’s Inn Fields between 19 June and 12 September,<br />
was launched with an agreeable party for friends and<br />
supporters of both organis<strong>at</strong>ions. It provided an excellent<br />
Donors<br />
Donors to the BSR in <strong>2008</strong>–9 include: Mrs Diana Baring;<br />
Mr John Beale; <strong>The</strong> <strong>British</strong> Council; <strong>The</strong> Clarke-<br />
Molyneux Trust; <strong>The</strong> Faculty of Classics, Cambridge; Mr<br />
Luca Cerizza; <strong>The</strong> John S. Cohen Found<strong>at</strong>ion; Mr Gifford<br />
Combs; <strong>The</strong> Marc Fitch Fund; <strong>The</strong> Gladstone Memorial<br />
Trust; <strong>The</strong> Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust; Mr Peter<br />
Johnson; <strong>The</strong> Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in <strong>British</strong><br />
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occasion for the BSR to connect with its UK friends and<br />
supporters. Shortly after this the Museum hosted a special<br />
evening event, linked to the exhibition, and generously<br />
encouraged the BSR to invite a select group of donors to a<br />
reception and a lecture about the wider context of the<br />
exhibition by Valerie Scott. <strong>The</strong> occasion was gre<strong>at</strong>ly<br />
enjoyed by guests of each institution, among which there<br />
was a not-altogether surprising overlap in interests. <strong>The</strong><br />
BSR hopes th<strong>at</strong> this will be the first of many collabor<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
with Sir John Soane’s Museum, both in London and in<br />
<strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
Through the year various institutional and other<br />
unrestricted personal don<strong>at</strong>ions have been received. Two of<br />
the l<strong>at</strong>ter were from rel<strong>at</strong>ives of former scholars from many<br />
decades ago. <strong>The</strong>ir charming letters once again underscore<br />
the importance of maintaining links with alumni and friends<br />
of the BSR.<br />
Our thanks, as always, go to incredibly supportive staff<br />
both in <strong>Rome</strong>, particularly Elly Murkett and Alvise Di<br />
Giulio, and in London, where special thanks go to Dr Gill<br />
Clark, who was a staunch ally in promoting the Mackey<br />
exhibition.<br />
Jill Pellew<br />
Chair of Development<br />
Art; Mrs G.M. Muinzer; Mr Morton Neal; PARC:<br />
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali; Mr A.H.A.<br />
Osborn; <strong>The</strong> Craven Committee, Oxford; St John’s<br />
College, Oxford; <strong>The</strong> Society of Dilettanti; <strong>The</strong> Society<br />
for the Promotion of Roman Studies; Mr Peter Spring;<br />
Studio Legale Dalla Vedova; Ms Vanessa Somers<br />
Vreeland.
H UMANITIES AWARDS<br />
Balsdon Fellow<br />
Michael Bury (University of Edinburgh)<br />
Divergent judgements: works of art in contention, <strong>Rome</strong> 1540–1610<br />
Hugh Last Fellow<br />
Dr Stephen Heyworth (University of Oxford)<br />
A commentary on Ovid, Fasti 3<br />
Paul Mellon Centre <strong>Rome</strong> Fellow<br />
Dr William Eisler (Musée Monetaire Cantonal, Lausanne)<br />
<strong>The</strong> medals of Martin Folkes: art, Newtonian science and Masonic<br />
sociability in the age of the Grand Tour<br />
A.D. Trendall Fellow<br />
Dr Lisa Beaven (La Trobe University)<br />
<strong>The</strong> market in <strong>Rome</strong> for antiquities and their illegal export<strong>at</strong>ion in the<br />
second half of the seventeenth century<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> Fellows<br />
Dr Carrie Churnside (University of Birmingham)<br />
<strong>The</strong> seventeenth-century sacred cant<strong>at</strong>a in the papal st<strong>at</strong>es<br />
Dr Emiliano Perra (University of Bristol)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Holocaust in Italian television<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> Scholars<br />
Dr Meaghan McEvoy (University of Oxford)<br />
<strong>The</strong> resurgence of <strong>Rome</strong> in the fifth century AD<br />
Dr Lucy Turner Voakes (European University Institute, Florence)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Risorgimento and English Liberal culture, 1850–1918<br />
Ralegh Radford <strong>Rome</strong> Scholar<br />
Dr Marden Nichols (University of Cambridge)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Odyssey frieze, a Roman wall-painting of the first century BCE<br />
considered in a sp<strong>at</strong>ial and cultural context<br />
Macquarie University Gale Scholar<br />
Duncan Keenan-Jones (Macquarie University)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Aqua Augusta. Regional w<strong>at</strong>er supply in Roman and l<strong>at</strong>e antique<br />
Campania: an historical and archaeometrical study<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> Awardees<br />
Caillan Davenport (University of Oxford)<br />
New élites in <strong>Rome</strong> and Italy, AD 235–337<br />
Dr Claire Holleran (King’s College London/University of Liverpool)<br />
Shopping in ancient <strong>Rome</strong><br />
Elizabeth Munro (University of Oxford)<br />
Recycling the Roman villa: the use of architectural components as raw<br />
m<strong>at</strong>erials for small-scale production in the l<strong>at</strong>e Roman period<br />
Edward Payne (Courtauld Institute)<br />
Violence and corporality in the art of Jusepe de Ribera<br />
Tim Potter Memorial Awardee<br />
Alun Williams (Cardiff University)<br />
Coloniz<strong>at</strong>ion in the western Mediterranean: case-studies of Greek,<br />
Roman and Phoenician colonies in Italy, Sicily and Sardinia<br />
Melbourne <strong>Rome</strong> Scholar<br />
Mark Shepheard (University of Melbourne)<br />
Musicians and artists <strong>at</strong> the court of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in<br />
<strong>Rome</strong>, 1689–1740<br />
Giles Worsley Travel Fellow<br />
Rebecca Madgin (Universities of Leicester/East London/Glasgow)<br />
<strong>The</strong> contemporary value of industrial architecture — the Ostiense<br />
Quarter<br />
Youth Music Found<strong>at</strong>ion of Australia Scholar<br />
Suzanne Shakespeare<br />
Research Fellows<br />
Dr P<strong>at</strong>rizia Cavazzini<br />
<strong>The</strong> painter Agostino Tassi; the art market in <strong>Rome</strong><br />
Dr Roberto Cobianchi<br />
Ceremonies for canonis<strong>at</strong>ion in Renaissance <strong>Rome</strong><br />
Dr Elizabeth Fentress<br />
Roman archaeology<br />
Dr Inge Lyse Hansen<br />
Provincial identity and p<strong>at</strong>ronage in the Greek east<br />
Dr Andrew Hopkins<br />
Committenza architettonica fra Venezia e Roma nel Seicento<br />
Dr Clare Hornsby<br />
Roman topography studied through maps in the BSR Library Rare<br />
Books collection<br />
Dr Helen Langdon<br />
<strong>The</strong> painters Salv<strong>at</strong>or Rosa and Claude Lorrain<br />
Dr Lori-Ann Touchette<br />
Ancient Roman art<br />
Dr Karin Wolfe<br />
<strong>The</strong> Venetian painter Francesco Trevisani<br />
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H UMANITIES A CTIVITIES<br />
<strong>The</strong> autumn began with a visit by Lord and Lady<br />
Sainsbury of Preston Candover with family and friends,<br />
including artist Anthony Fry (<strong>Rome</strong> Scholar 1950). Trips<br />
were organised to the Castel Sant’Angelo, the Giovanni<br />
Bellini exhibition <strong>at</strong> the Scuderie del Quirinale and the Julius<br />
Caesar exhibition <strong>at</strong> the Chiostro del Bramante. Awardholders<br />
were active in promoting their research: Marden<br />
Nichols, Caillan Davenport, Claire Holleran and Alun<br />
Williams all gave papers <strong>at</strong> meetings of the Associazione<br />
Internazionale di Archeologia Classica. Rebecca Madgin<br />
spoke <strong>at</strong> a conference in Liverpool and took up a post <strong>at</strong> the<br />
University of Glasgow on leaving <strong>Rome</strong>. Carrie Churnside<br />
organised several outings to musical events in <strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
Meaghan McEvoy, Marden Nichols and Lucy Turner Voakes<br />
were awarded their PhDs along with M<strong>at</strong>thew Dal Santo and<br />
Frances Parton — both Awardees in 2007–8. Meaghan will<br />
go to a Dumbarton Oaks fellowship in autumn 2009,<br />
followed by a three-year <strong>British</strong> Academy post-doctoral<br />
fellowship. Duncan Keenan-Jones delivered a thoughtprovoking<br />
lecture on aqueducts and spoke <strong>at</strong> a conference in<br />
Bari. Stephen Heyworth was a generous contributor to the<br />
City of <strong>Rome</strong> course, and both Meaghan and Marden gave<br />
their final lectures in th<strong>at</strong> programme. Especially notable this<br />
year was the diversity of the scholars’ research, with subjects<br />
from the first century BC to present-day Italy. YMFA Scholar<br />
Suzanne Shakespeare performed a diverse programme of<br />
arias for soprano, accompanied by local pianist and singer,<br />
Yuri Takenaka. Last year’s YMFA Scholar, Stefan<br />
Cassomenos, returned to Italy in spring 2009 with the Yarra<br />
Chamber Orchestra, of which he is a founding member, and<br />
gave a welcome, impromptu performance.<br />
David Forgacs began the <strong>2008</strong>–9 lecture programme with<br />
a lecture on the tre<strong>at</strong>ment of p<strong>at</strong>ients in Italian psychi<strong>at</strong>ric<br />
hospitals from 1967 to 1977, speaking l<strong>at</strong>er in the year with<br />
his guest, Mario Sanfilippo, on slums and social<br />
investig<strong>at</strong>ion in <strong>Rome</strong> from 1871 to 1921, both part of his<br />
‘Language, Space and Power in Italy since 1800’ research<br />
project. Maureen Carroll (Sheffield), returning in November<br />
16<br />
to complete her Balsdon Fellowship, spoke on de<strong>at</strong>h, burial<br />
and commemor<strong>at</strong>ion of newborns and infants in Roman<br />
Italy. Caspar Pearson (Essex) gave the inaugural W.T.C.<br />
Walker Lecture: this will be an annual event, supported by a<br />
bequest from the architect William Thomas Christie Walker<br />
(BSR <strong>Rome</strong> Prize 1937–9), to further the study of classical<br />
and Renaissance architecture. In November we also<br />
welcomed visiting speakers Pamela M. Jones (Massachusetts,<br />
Boston) and Ronald T. Ridley (Melbourne; A.D. Trendall<br />
Fellow 2002) who both gave stimul<strong>at</strong>ing lectures. Paul<br />
Mellon Centre <strong>Rome</strong> Fellow William Eisler (Musée<br />
Monetaire Cantonal, Lausanne) concluded the autumn<br />
programme, speaking on art, science and Freemasonry in<br />
eighteenth-century <strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
It was an art historical winter with lectures from BSR<br />
Research Fellows Helen Langdon and Karin Wolfe, as well<br />
as the present<strong>at</strong>ion of <strong>The</strong> Invention of Annibale Carracci by<br />
former BSR Research Fellow and current FAHL member<br />
Clare Robertson (Reading), with speakers David Marshall<br />
(BSR Honorary Fellow; Melbourne), P<strong>at</strong>rizia Cavazzini<br />
(BSR Research Fellow) and Balsdon Fellow Michael Bury,<br />
who in March asked a crowded lecture the<strong>at</strong>re ‘Why was<br />
Michelangelo’s Last Judgement controversial?’. Michael joined<br />
David Marshall to conduct an informal seminar on prints<br />
from the Library’s Rare Book collection for University of<br />
Melbourne students and BSR residents. Michael also led a<br />
tour of several of <strong>Rome</strong>’s Counter-Reform<strong>at</strong>ion churches.<br />
David Rundle was this year’s Society of Renaissance Studies<br />
speaker, with a fascin<strong>at</strong>ing lecture on <strong>British</strong> scholars and<br />
Renaissance Humanism. <strong>The</strong> winter programme concluded<br />
with another well-<strong>at</strong>tended book present<strong>at</strong>ion, BSR<br />
Research Fellow P<strong>at</strong>rizia Cavazzini’s Painting as Business in<br />
Early Seventeenth-century <strong>Rome</strong>, with speakers Pamela M. Jones<br />
(Massachusetts, Boston) and Claudia Conforti (Roma, Tor<br />
Verg<strong>at</strong>a).<br />
A highlight of the year was the conference ‘Architecture,<br />
Diplomacy, and N<strong>at</strong>ional Identity: Sir Basil Spence and Midcentury<br />
Modernism’, organised by Louise Campbell
BSR residents visiting the Meeting Room of the Council of St<strong>at</strong>e,<br />
Palazzo Spada<br />
(Warwick) and supported by the Arts and Humanities<br />
Research Council and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in<br />
<strong>British</strong> Art. Keynote speaker Gavin Stamp spoke on<br />
‘Lutyens and Spence’ to a large audience, and special visits<br />
were made to Sir Basil Spence’s <strong>British</strong> Embassy in <strong>Rome</strong><br />
and to the nearby Danish Academy, designed by Kay Fisker,<br />
a superb example of Modernist architecture. <strong>The</strong> l<strong>at</strong>ter tour<br />
was generously conducted by the Director of the Danish<br />
Academy, Erik Bach.<br />
Two special events concluded the year. <strong>The</strong> lecture the<strong>at</strong>re<br />
was packed for Andrew Wallace-Hadrill’s final lecture as<br />
Director, followed by drinks on the terrace and a buffet<br />
dinner in the cortile, which were enjoyed by numerous distinguished<br />
guests. Our cooks and waiting staff are to be<br />
complimented. A more informal farewell was organised by<br />
the award-holders. Headed by Stephen Heyworth, the<br />
Humanities award-holders prepared an excellent meal th<strong>at</strong><br />
preceded entertainment devised by Marden Nichols, with both<br />
Humanities and Fine Arts award-holders performing tableaux<br />
vivants based on her year’s project, the Odyssey frieze.<br />
Site visits included a combined Humanities and Fine Arts<br />
visit to Parma and Vicenza for, respectively, Correggio and<br />
Palladio exhibitions; Approdo Romano visits to Lake<br />
H U M A N I T I E S A C T I V I T I E S<br />
Trasimeno and Cortona; Arezzo for the Della Robbia<br />
exhibition and a morning visit to the costume collection of<br />
the House of Tirelli; Monte Testaccio; the Palazzo Farnese;<br />
the Palazzo Valentini; the Palazzo Costaguti; Villa Falconieri<br />
and Villa Sacchetti; the Roman house under Santa Maria<br />
Maggiore; the Palazzo Spada and many others organised by<br />
individual scholars. Frank Sear (<strong>Rome</strong> Scholar 1968; Hugh<br />
Last Fellow 1994) was especially active in organising trips to<br />
ancient sites during his spring visit.<br />
Susan Russell<br />
Assistant Director<br />
Taught Courses<br />
A record 54 students applied to the <strong>School</strong>’s undergradu<strong>at</strong>e<br />
Summer <strong>School</strong> in September <strong>2008</strong>, which was directed by<br />
M<strong>at</strong>thew Nicholls (Reading) and Robert Co<strong>at</strong>es-Stephens. 25<br />
were selected, from the universities of Birmingham, Bristol,<br />
Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London,<br />
Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, St Andrews and Warwick.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gladstone prize was awarded to Rebecca Usherwood,<br />
of Nottingham University. <strong>The</strong> course is generously<br />
supported by the Society for the Promotion of Roman<br />
Studies, the Craven Committee <strong>at</strong> Oxford, the Faculty of<br />
Classics <strong>at</strong> Cambridge and the Gladstone Memorial Trust.<br />
<strong>The</strong> itineraries were arranged them<strong>at</strong>ically, a method th<strong>at</strong><br />
has proved most successful for introducing large groups of<br />
undergradu<strong>at</strong>es (generally more familiar with texts than<br />
topography) to the complexities and richness of the city of<br />
<strong>Rome</strong>. ‘<strong>The</strong>med’ days included: the Tiber and provisioning<br />
<strong>Rome</strong>, politics and the Forum, war and the triumph, the city<br />
and the urban plebs, roads and cemeteries, and the<br />
transform<strong>at</strong>ions of l<strong>at</strong>e antiquity. Visits out of <strong>Rome</strong><br />
included Ostia, the Isola Sacra and Tivoli. <strong>The</strong> course<br />
directors provided a series of nine supplementary lectures to<br />
introduce each itinerary. Notwithstanding the group’s large<br />
size, we were lucky enough to be guided around the new<br />
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H U M A N I T I E S A C T I V I T I E S<br />
excav<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>at</strong> the Forum of Caesar by Alessandro Delfino,<br />
and Janet Delaine, on a short visit to <strong>Rome</strong>, was kind<br />
enough to share her expertise during the trip to Hadrian’s<br />
Villa <strong>at</strong> Tivoli.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s City of <strong>Rome</strong> postgradu<strong>at</strong>e course runs<br />
annually through April and May, providing students of<br />
classics, ancient history and archaeology with a full<br />
immersion in the topography, art and architecture of the<br />
city, from its origins to the end of the empire (although l<strong>at</strong>er<br />
periods are by no means neglected). In 2009 eleven students<br />
<strong>at</strong>tended, from the universities of Cardiff, Exeter,<br />
Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Southampton, St Andrews<br />
and Warwick. <strong>The</strong> course was directed by Robert Co<strong>at</strong>es-<br />
Stephens and administered by Elly Murkett. Chris Siwicki<br />
provided welcome logistical support and Maria Pia Malvezzi<br />
arranged the permits for access to restricted monuments<br />
with efficiency and diplomacy. Geraldine Wellington saw to<br />
the hostel arrangements with effortless authority.<br />
Since site visits form the key element of the teaching, the<br />
BSR is able to exploit fully its unique contacts with <strong>Rome</strong>’s<br />
archaeological authorities and academic institutions in setting<br />
out a wide-ranging programme of itineraries and excav<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
tours. Highlights in 2009 included a detailed exposition of<br />
the important but rarely seen remains of the Temple of<br />
Apollo Pal<strong>at</strong>inus (with Stephan Zink), visits to the<br />
excav<strong>at</strong>ions of Portus (Simon Keay and Stephen Kay) and<br />
the port of Ardea (Letizia Ceccarelli), and an illumin<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
survey of the Byzantine frescoes <strong>at</strong> Santa Maria Antiqua<br />
(David Knipp). Cinzia Conti authorised a rare permit for the<br />
group to ascend the spiral staircase of the Column of Marcus<br />
Aurelius. Of the more unusual sites visited there were the<br />
insula bene<strong>at</strong>h the Palazzo Spada, which collapsed in an<br />
earthquake <strong>at</strong> the end of antiquity, its mosaic floors lying<br />
superimposed like dominoes, the C<strong>at</strong>acombs of Praetext<strong>at</strong>us<br />
and Vigna Randanini, and the art nouveau ceramics<br />
workshop of Francesco Randone (grandf<strong>at</strong>her of Lucos<br />
Cozza, BSR Honorary Fellow), installed in the towers of the<br />
Aurelianic Walls near the Porta Pinciana.<br />
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Students on the City of <strong>Rome</strong> course on a visit to the port of Ardea,<br />
led by Letizia Ceccarelli<br />
<strong>The</strong> lecture series gave the students the opportunity to<br />
hear <strong>at</strong> first-hand from some of the giants of Italian<br />
academe: Andrea Carandini, Filippo Coarelli, Eugenio La<br />
Rocca and Mario Torelli – as well as the next Director of<br />
the BSR, Christopher Smith. <strong>The</strong> less formal <strong>at</strong>mosphere of<br />
the seminar series enabled the class to interact with younger<br />
scholars <strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong>, as well as with visiting scholars<br />
Penelope Davies, Stephen Heyworth and Frank Sear.<br />
<strong>The</strong> BSR Library proved as important a resource to the<br />
students as the monuments themselves. Notwithstanding<br />
pressures caused by the intense influx of external readers<br />
seeking refuge from building works <strong>at</strong> other foreign<br />
academy libraries, Valerie Scott and her staff provided full<br />
access to the collections, and by the course’s end a fine<br />
series of essays had been produced on such topics as the<br />
Sullan building programme, the origins and development of<br />
the Jewish and Christian c<strong>at</strong>acombs, and the frieze of<br />
Trajan’s Column. As in previous years, we are gr<strong>at</strong>eful for<br />
the support of the Society for the Promotion of Roman<br />
Studies. Above all, we thank Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, who<br />
in 1996 conceived the course, so providing this rare<br />
opportunity to promising young scholars and future<br />
gener<strong>at</strong>ions of academics over the last fourteen years.<br />
Robert Co<strong>at</strong>es-Stephens<br />
Cary Fellow
M ODERN S TUDIES<br />
Icompleted my last year <strong>at</strong> the BSR as Research Professor<br />
in Modern Studies engaged on the three-year project<br />
‘Language, Space and Power in Italy since 1800’. <strong>The</strong> final<br />
stages involved a second round of filmed interviews with<br />
recent migrants from Romania, as well as with some of<br />
their Italian neighbours, in three suburban areas of <strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
It also involved research on photographic represent<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
in Italy’s colonies during the 1930s. For the l<strong>at</strong>ter I used<br />
the archives in <strong>Rome</strong> of the Società Geografica Italiana,<br />
Istituto Italo-Africano, Archivio dell’Ufficio Storico dello<br />
St<strong>at</strong>o Maggiore dell’Esercito and Istituto Luce. I also<br />
worked in the archive of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies<br />
in Addis Ababa, which contains an important collection of<br />
unofficial photographs confisc<strong>at</strong>ed from Italian soldiers <strong>at</strong><br />
the time of the liber<strong>at</strong>ion of Ethiopia in 1941 by the<br />
<strong>British</strong> army and Ethiopian p<strong>at</strong>riots. Some of these<br />
m<strong>at</strong>erials will be used in the book arising from the<br />
research and the exhibition th<strong>at</strong> will open <strong>at</strong> the BSR on<br />
25 June 2010, together with photographs and film extracts<br />
rel<strong>at</strong>ing to the other three main case-studies in the research<br />
project: slum housing in <strong>Rome</strong> in the l<strong>at</strong>e nineteenth and<br />
early twentieth centuries, ethnographic investig<strong>at</strong>ions of<br />
rural areas in the south of Italy in the 1950s, and<br />
psychi<strong>at</strong>ric institutions and the movement to close them in<br />
the 1960s and 1970s.<br />
<strong>The</strong> remainder of my time on the project was spent on<br />
the dissemin<strong>at</strong>ion of the research findings both within the<br />
BSR and outside. Between October <strong>2008</strong> and May 2009 I<br />
gave three lectures <strong>at</strong> the BSR on the three main strands<br />
of the research. In November I talked <strong>at</strong> the <strong>British</strong><br />
Academy about Italy’s new anti-immigrant policies. In<br />
January I began planning the exhibition for the summer<br />
of 2010, and managed to secure the collabor<strong>at</strong>ion of three<br />
audiovisual and photographic archives: Teche Rai, the<br />
Istituto Luce, and the Labor<strong>at</strong>orio per la Ricerca e<br />
Documentazione Audiovisiva (Roma Tre). In July I<br />
finished the illustr<strong>at</strong>ed book arising from the project,<br />
entitled Italy Family Album: Texts and Images on the Margins,<br />
Courtyard of a tenement in Via di Porta Labicana, <strong>Rome</strong>, before and<br />
after risanamento in 1909<br />
1861–2010, for which I have a publishing agreement with<br />
Cambridge University Press. Lastly, I began organising the<br />
conference rel<strong>at</strong>ed to the themes of the research, to be<br />
held <strong>at</strong> the BSR on 24–25 June 2010. As well as sending<br />
invit<strong>at</strong>ions to selected speakers, I circul<strong>at</strong>ed two calls for<br />
papers, in April and June 2009. Over 100 proposals were<br />
submitted, of which no more than 35 can be included,<br />
and a provisional conference schedule is now in place.<br />
I considers my three years based <strong>at</strong> the BSR to have been<br />
without doubt the best research opportunity I have had in<br />
my academic career since I finished my doctor<strong>at</strong>e in 1978,<br />
as well as a uniquely rewarding social and intellectual<br />
experience. I have had time and freedom to think, read,<br />
look <strong>at</strong> images, listen to people, exchange ideas with experts<br />
and write. I hope I have been able to contribute to the<br />
<strong>School</strong> and its community as much as I have taken from it<br />
in ideas, suggestions and stimul<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
David Forgacs<br />
Research Professor in Modern Studies<br />
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E VENTS<br />
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND RELATED EVENTS:<br />
Drawn Encounters, Complex Identities. Two-day conference in<br />
collabor<strong>at</strong>ion with <strong>The</strong> Centre for Drawing, University of the<br />
Arts, London and the Faculty of Art and Design, Monash<br />
University, Melbourne<br />
Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica XVI Congress of<br />
Classical Archaeology: Meetings between Cultures in the Ancient<br />
Mediterranean. Poster session hosted by the BSR<br />
Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica meeting:<br />
Incontri, chaired by Massimiliano Papini, with a contribution<br />
from Marden Nichols (BSR; Cambridge)<br />
Identifying the Punic Mediterranean. Two-day conference sponsored<br />
by the BSR and the Society for Libyan Studies<br />
Architecture, Diplomacy, and N<strong>at</strong>ional Identity: Sir Basil Spence and Midcentury<br />
Modernism. Two-day conference organised by Louise<br />
Campbell (Warwick)<br />
Present<strong>at</strong>ion of <strong>The</strong> Invention of Annibale Carracci by Clare<br />
Robertson, with contributions from Michael Bury (BSR;<br />
Edinburgh), P<strong>at</strong>rizia Cavazzini (BSR) and David Marshall<br />
(BSR; Melbourne)<br />
Current Research <strong>at</strong> Portus. One-day workshop organised by BSR<br />
and the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia<br />
VI Incontro di Studi sul Lazio e la Sabina. Day two of a three-day<br />
conference in collabor<strong>at</strong>ion with the Soprintendenza per i Beni<br />
Archeologici del Lazio<br />
Present<strong>at</strong>ion of Painting as Business in Early Seventeenth-century <strong>Rome</strong><br />
by P<strong>at</strong>rizia Cavazzini (BSR), with contributions from Pamela<br />
M. Jones (Massachusetts, Boston) and Claudia Conforti (<strong>Rome</strong>,<br />
Tor Verg<strong>at</strong>a)<br />
Urban Landscape Survey. Second Valle Giulia Meeting. Day three of a<br />
three-day conference in collabor<strong>at</strong>ion with the Academia<br />
Belgica and Reale Istituto Neerlandese a Roma<br />
Press launch of the exhibition Falacrinae. Le origini di Vespasiano<br />
ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY LECTURES<br />
Maureen Carroll (BSR; Sheffield): ‘Too young for the funeral<br />
pyre’. <strong>The</strong> de<strong>at</strong>h, burial and commemor<strong>at</strong>ion of newborn<br />
children and infants in Roman Italy<br />
Helen P<strong>at</strong>terson (BSR): <strong>The</strong> l<strong>at</strong>e antique and early medieval<br />
landscapes of the middle Tiber Valley<br />
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Daniela Giampaola (Soprintendenza Archeologica di Napoli): La<br />
ricostruzione del paesaggio costiero di Neapolis e lo scavo del<br />
porto antico<br />
Duncan Keenan-Jones (BSR; Macquarie): W<strong>at</strong>er sources and lead<br />
poisoning in Pompeii and Herculaneum. New findings from<br />
trace element and lead isotope analysis of sinter deposits<br />
Stephen Heyworth (BSR; Oxford): Locum tua tempora poscunt:<br />
topography in Ovid’s Fasti<br />
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (BSR): Ercolano: un futuro per il<br />
pass<strong>at</strong>o?<br />
HISTORY OF ART, HUMANITIES AND MODERN STUDIES LECTURES<br />
David Forgacs (BSR; UCL): Mad world: photographs and oral<br />
testimonies of p<strong>at</strong>ients in Italian psychi<strong>at</strong>ric hospitals 1967–77<br />
Pamela M. Jones (Massachusetts, Boston): Bare feet, humility, and<br />
the Passion of Christ in the cults of Carlo Borromeo and Mary<br />
Magdalene in Seicento <strong>Rome</strong><br />
Caspar Pearson (Essex): Inaugural W.T.C. Walker Lecture, ‘Wh<strong>at</strong><br />
goes up ...’: Leon B<strong>at</strong>tista Alberti on building and destruction<br />
Ronald T. Ridley (Melbourne): <strong>The</strong> prince as poisoner, the ‘trial’<br />
of Prince Chigi in <strong>Rome</strong>, 1790<br />
William Eisler (BSR; Musée Monetaire Cantonal, Lausanne): <strong>The</strong><br />
construction of the image of Martin Folkes (1690–1754): art,<br />
science and Freemasonry in the age of the Grand Tour<br />
Helen Langdon (BSR): Caravaggio and Spanish Naples<br />
Karin Wolfe (BSR): Francesco Trevisani (1656–1746): portrait of<br />
a painter<br />
David Rundle (Society for Renaissance Studies): <strong>The</strong> <strong>British</strong> <strong>at</strong><br />
school in <strong>Rome</strong>, c. 1450 or, the barbarians’ role in Renaissance<br />
humanism<br />
David Forgacs (BSR; UCL) and Mario Sanfilippo (ex-Trieste):<br />
Slums and social investig<strong>at</strong>ion in <strong>Rome</strong> 1871–1921<br />
Michael Bury (BSR; Edinburgh): Why was Michelangelo’s Last<br />
Judgement controversial?<br />
David Forgacs (BSR; UCL): Fortress Italy: ‘clandestini’ and ‘rom’<br />
in contemporary political and media discourse<br />
Emiliano Perra (BSR; Bristol): <strong>The</strong> banality of goodness: the<br />
reinvention of the ‘rescuer’ in RAI programmes on the<br />
Holocaust<br />
Lucy Turner Voakes (BSR; EUI, Florence): George Macaulay
Trevelyan’s Garibaldi Trilogy: history, poetry and public<br />
moralism<br />
Carrie Churnside (BSR; Birmingham): ‘Che Roma viva di sensi<br />
priva è van pensier’: the seventeenth-century sacred cant<strong>at</strong>a in<br />
the Papal St<strong>at</strong>es<br />
CITY OF ROME POSTGRADUATE COURSE LECTURES AND SEMINARS<br />
Andrea Carandini and Daniela Bruno (<strong>Rome</strong> ‘La Sapienza’): La<br />
Casa di Augusto. Procedura di ricostruzione e novità<br />
Robert Co<strong>at</strong>es-Stephens (BSR): Sources for Roman topography<br />
Penelope Davies (Texas): Architecture in Republican <strong>Rome</strong><br />
Marden Nichols (BSR; Cambridge): <strong>The</strong> Odyssey frieze: on<br />
Roman time<br />
Fabio Barry (St Andrews): M<strong>at</strong>erials and m<strong>at</strong>eriality in Roman<br />
architecture and construction<br />
Filippo Coarelli (Perugia): Equus Domitiani<br />
Duncan Keenan-Jones (BSR; Macquarie): W<strong>at</strong>er-systems and the<br />
Roman w<strong>at</strong>er-supply<br />
Eugenio La Rocca (<strong>Rome</strong> ‘La Sapienza’): Templum Gentis Flaviae<br />
Christopher Smith (St Andrews): Mid-Republican views of<br />
Roman expansion and Roman territory: some thoughts<br />
Rossella Rea, Raffaella La Pasta and Mari<strong>at</strong>eresa Martines<br />
(Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma):<br />
Metropolitana di Roma Linea C, indagini archeologiche<br />
preventive. Da via Casilina Vecchia al Colosseo. Risult<strong>at</strong>i 2006–9<br />
Mario Torelli (Perugia): Haruspices of the emperors. Tarquitius<br />
Priscus and Sejanus’s conspiracy<br />
Frank Sear (Melbourne): Roman the<strong>at</strong>res<br />
Meaghan McEvoy (BSR; Oxford): <strong>Rome</strong> and the transform<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of the imperial office in the l<strong>at</strong>e-fourth to mid-fifth centuries AD<br />
Sue Russell (BSR): Pirro Ligorio as architect and archaeologist<br />
ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE EVENTS<br />
Present<strong>at</strong>ion of Cucchi/Sottsas by Enzo Cucchi<br />
David Spero: Churches. Exhibition as part of Fotografia 2009<br />
Fine Arts Awardees’ Exhibitions<br />
September <strong>2008</strong>: Tempo Reale; C<strong>at</strong>h Keay, Amanda Marburg, Liz<br />
Rideal, Christopher Cook, Richard Kirwan, Tony Lloyd<br />
December <strong>2008</strong>: Figure of 8; Joseph Bedford, Penelope Cain,<br />
Dragica Janketic Carlin, K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon, Celia Hempton,<br />
E V E N T S<br />
Rebecca Madgin, Ruth Murray, Eddie Peake, Liz Rideal<br />
March 2009: Our Lives are Full of Remarkable Coincidences; Sara<br />
Barker, Joseph Bedford, Gabriella Bisetto, Luke Caulfield,<br />
K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, C<strong>at</strong>h Keay, Eddie Peake, James<br />
Robertson<br />
June 2009: Don’t look away; Joseph Bedford, K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon,<br />
Graham Durward, Pierre Gendron, Celia Hempton, Eddie<br />
Peake, David Spero, Amikam Toren<br />
Architecture Programme<br />
‘LONDON–ROME: WORK IN PROCESS’<br />
Tom Coward and Daisy Froud (AOC): Lecture and exhibition,<br />
Cultural Approaches<br />
Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke (Carmody Groarke): Lecture<br />
and exhibition, Time Scale<br />
Andrea Stipa (Andrea Stipa Architettura): Lecture and exhibition,<br />
Inside Out<br />
MUSIC EVENTS<br />
Performance: Arias for sopranos, by Suzanne Shakespeare (BSR),<br />
accompanied by Yuri Takenaka<br />
UK EVENTS<br />
Insiders/Outsiders in <strong>Rome</strong> through the Ages<br />
Outsiders or insiders in society and the cemetery? Evidence<br />
for the burial and commemor<strong>at</strong>ion of newborns and infants<br />
in <strong>Rome</strong> and Roman Italy<br />
Maureen Carroll, Balsdon Fellow 2007–8<br />
‘<strong>The</strong>se northern artists who come and go without<br />
regul<strong>at</strong>ion’: northern painters <strong>at</strong> the Academy of Saint Luke,<br />
1590–1630<br />
Lucy Davis, <strong>Rome</strong> Fellow 2007–8<br />
It has to be this way<br />
Lindsay Seers, Wing<strong>at</strong>e <strong>Rome</strong> Scholar 2007–8<br />
Sp<strong>at</strong>ial trasl<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Prisca Thielmann, <strong>Rome</strong> Scholar in Architecture 2007–8<br />
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (BSR): Herculaneum: a future for the past?<br />
Exhibitions in the series ‘Immagini e memoria’<br />
Immagini e Memoria: <strong>Rome</strong> in the Photographs of F<strong>at</strong>her Peter Paul<br />
Mackey 1890–1901, <strong>at</strong> Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, and<br />
accompanying lecture by Valerie Scott (BSR)<br />
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A RCHAEOLOGY<br />
Archaeology enjoyed yet another successful year of<br />
activity. Work focused primarily upon its flagship research<br />
programme — the Roman Ports Project — which involved all<br />
staff in a second season of excav<strong>at</strong>ion and survey <strong>at</strong> Portus.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was also a first meeting of active participants in the<br />
Roman Port Networks in the Mediterranean. Archaeology was<br />
successful in broadening the remit of its activities in the<br />
western Mediterranean, and in hosting major conferences and<br />
workshops in collabor<strong>at</strong>ion with the Society for Libyan Studies<br />
and with other institutions and foreign academies in <strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
THE ROMAN PORTS PROJECT<br />
This project, directed by Simon Keay, is enhancing our<br />
understanding of Portus, the port of Imperial <strong>Rome</strong>, through<br />
excav<strong>at</strong>ion, survey and the analysis of finds. It also explores<br />
Portus’s rel<strong>at</strong>ionship to other ports across the Mediterranean.<br />
Excav<strong>at</strong>ions and Survey <strong>at</strong> Portus and in its Hinterland<br />
<strong>The</strong>se were directed by Simon Keay and Graeme Earl<br />
(Southampton), assisted by Dott.ssa Lidia Paroli<br />
(Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia) and<br />
funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council<br />
(AHRC), the BSR, the Soprintendenza per i Beni<br />
Archeologici di Ostia and the Universities of Southampton<br />
and Cambridge. <strong>The</strong>y drew upon the collabor<strong>at</strong>ion of<br />
Parsifal Cooper<strong>at</strong>iva di Archeologia (<strong>Rome</strong>), and involved<br />
participants from the Universities of Southampton,<br />
Cambridge, <strong>Rome</strong> ‘La Sapienza’, Aix-en-Provence, Lyon,<br />
Tarragona and Seville. <strong>The</strong> results of all the <strong>2008</strong> campaigns<br />
were presented <strong>at</strong> the second Portus Workshop, which was<br />
held <strong>at</strong> the BSR in February 2009.<br />
Palazzo Imperiale<br />
Our main effort continues to be targeted upon the Palazzo<br />
Imperiale, a key three-storey complex <strong>at</strong> the centre of the<br />
port th<strong>at</strong> overlooked both the Claudian and Trajanic basins.<br />
Our findings are beginning to suggest th<strong>at</strong> it was completed<br />
in the last years of the reign of the Emperor Trajan (AD<br />
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98–117) and th<strong>at</strong> it may have been conceived as a complex<br />
th<strong>at</strong> served as both a temporary residence for reigning<br />
emperors on their way to and from <strong>Rome</strong>, and for the<br />
imperial official (procur<strong>at</strong>or) responsible for managing Portus<br />
as a whole. Our work throughout the year also included<br />
intensive topographical and geophysical surveys of the main<br />
body of the Palazzo Imperiale and adjacent buildings, in<br />
order to understand better their layout and to facilit<strong>at</strong>e their<br />
reconstruction in a virtual reality environment.<br />
<strong>The</strong> focus of the most intensive work, however, remained<br />
the eastern edge of the Palazzo Imperiale, where work began<br />
in 2007. Excav<strong>at</strong>ions and survey took place over six weeks.<br />
<strong>The</strong> site was visited by a number of Italian archaeologists<br />
from the Soprintendenze of Ostia and <strong>Rome</strong>, and from the<br />
Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, as well as colleagues from<br />
the Universities of Cologne, Oxford, Cambridge, Aix-en-<br />
Provence and Texas, and from the Institut C<strong>at</strong>alà<br />
d’Arqueologia Clàssica and the Swedish Institute in <strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
One key area comprised the cisterns th<strong>at</strong> lay on the northern<br />
side of the first-century AD channel th<strong>at</strong> was first uncovered in<br />
2007. <strong>The</strong>se marked the eastern limit of a line of structures th<strong>at</strong><br />
originally would have extended along the northern façade of the<br />
Palazzo Imperiale overlooking the Claudian basin. It now seems<br />
certain th<strong>at</strong> they were constructed during the Trajanic and<br />
Hadrianic periods, undergoing a series of important<br />
modific<strong>at</strong>ions down into the l<strong>at</strong>e antique period. During an<br />
initial stage <strong>at</strong> least they may have been used to provide fresh<br />
w<strong>at</strong>er for ships leaving Portus on their homeward journeys.<br />
Attention was also directed towards the south side of the<br />
channel in order to loc<strong>at</strong>e its edge and learn more about the<br />
layout of the port between it and the Trajanic basin. While<br />
the channel still proved elusive, the excav<strong>at</strong>ions did uncover<br />
the northern face of a massive rectangular building of<br />
Trajanic d<strong>at</strong>e along its south side. A combin<strong>at</strong>ion of<br />
excav<strong>at</strong>ion, ground-penetr<strong>at</strong>ing radar, resistance<br />
tomography and topographic survey suggest th<strong>at</strong> this was<br />
conceived as a single two- or three-storey structure, possibly<br />
a warehouse or barrack block, th<strong>at</strong> was circa 80 metres wide,
Above: White marble head from excav<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>at</strong> Portus<br />
Right: General view of the concentric oval walls of the<br />
Ludus <strong>at</strong> Portus<br />
ran in an east to west direction for some 250 metres and<br />
was composed of a series of parallel corridors running from<br />
north to south for its entire length. Analysis of the façade<br />
th<strong>at</strong> opened on to the channel revealed th<strong>at</strong> the building<br />
underwent major changes during the course of the Imperial<br />
period, culmin<strong>at</strong>ing in the l<strong>at</strong>er fifth century AD, when it was<br />
incorpor<strong>at</strong>ed into the defensive fortific<strong>at</strong>ion (mura<br />
costantiniane) th<strong>at</strong> encircled the port complex as a whole.<br />
Excav<strong>at</strong>ions also confirmed th<strong>at</strong> during the Severan<br />
period the channel was backfilled with sand and then<br />
covered over with a large (42 metres x 35 metres) oval-plan<br />
building. This probably can be identified as a small<br />
amphithe<strong>at</strong>re (ludus). It has important implic<strong>at</strong>ions for our<br />
understanding of the Palazzo Imperiale and adjacent<br />
buildings, given th<strong>at</strong> structures of this kind are often<br />
associ<strong>at</strong>ed with Imperial palaces <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong>, such as the early<br />
third–century AD Palazzo Sessoriano, and military<br />
complexes, such as the Castra Praetoria.<br />
A R C H A E O L O G Y<br />
In addition to this work, <strong>at</strong>tention was also directed<br />
towards further understanding l<strong>at</strong>e Imperial levels, not least<br />
including the excav<strong>at</strong>ion of a series of l<strong>at</strong>e antique burials<br />
outside the mura costantiniane. <strong>The</strong> work on the excav<strong>at</strong>ion was<br />
complemented by a programme of environmental coring by<br />
J.-P. Goiran (Lyon) in an <strong>at</strong>tempt to understand better the<br />
environmental context of the port: six cores of up to ten<br />
metres depth were taken <strong>at</strong> different points across the<br />
excav<strong>at</strong>ion and surrounding area. In addition, samples of the<br />
pine and oak were taken from cladding around the inside of<br />
the Hadrianic cistern for dendrochronological d<strong>at</strong>ing and<br />
sourcing work (carried out by S. Manning, Cornell University).<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trajanic Basin<br />
A team led by Justin Dix (N<strong>at</strong>ional Oceanographic Centre,<br />
Southampton) undertook a sub-bottom sonar survey of the<br />
Trajanic basin in order to reveal the depth and profile of the<br />
basin, and its rel<strong>at</strong>ionship with the Palazzo Imperiale. Initial<br />
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results are encouraging, shedding light upon the depth of<br />
sediment <strong>at</strong> the bottom of the lake, and providing us with<br />
the inform<strong>at</strong>ion needed to plan future underw<strong>at</strong>er<br />
investig<strong>at</strong>ions. We would like to express our gr<strong>at</strong>itude to<br />
Duke Ascanio Sforza Cesarini for granting us access to his<br />
property to undertake the survey.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Portus Hinterland Survey<br />
This focuses upon the Isola Sacra, a key land-bridge lying<br />
between Portus and Ostia, th<strong>at</strong> has considerable potential<br />
for enhancing our understanding of the rel<strong>at</strong>ionship<br />
between both ports. <strong>The</strong> first two seasons of geophysical<br />
survey were undertaken in the northern sector in <strong>2008</strong> and<br />
2009, and were directed by Martin Millett (Cambridge) Kris<br />
Strutt, Archaeological Prospection Services, Southampton<br />
(APSS), Paola Germoni (Soprintendenza per i Beni<br />
Archeologici di Ostia) and Simon Keay. <strong>The</strong> results are<br />
shedding important light upon the hinterland of the<br />
settlement and the adjacent cemetery lying on the south side<br />
of the Fossa Traiana. <strong>The</strong> second season of survey (March<br />
2009) focused upon the western part of the isola, which lay<br />
between the area surveyed in <strong>2008</strong> and the excav<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
cemetery. <strong>The</strong> most notable discovery here was a large canal<br />
or body of w<strong>at</strong>er of uncertain function, circa 80 metres wide,<br />
lying to the west of the st<strong>at</strong>io marmorum and to the south of<br />
the Fossa Traiana. This seems to have been integral to the<br />
replanning of Portus under Trajan, and is bound to shed<br />
important light upon the functioning of Portus and its<br />
rel<strong>at</strong>ionship with Ostia. <strong>The</strong> survey also revealed traces of a<br />
section of the Via Flavia th<strong>at</strong> ran between Portus and Ostia.<br />
Roman Port Networks<br />
This sub-project explores changing economic rel<strong>at</strong>ionships<br />
between Portus and other mediterranean Roman ports. It is<br />
being funded by the University of Southampton and the<br />
Institut C<strong>at</strong>alà d’Arqueologia Clàssica, and is supported by<br />
two PhD students. Following upon the success of the <strong>2008</strong><br />
workshop, this year saw some twenty colleagues from<br />
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universities and research institutions throughout Europe<br />
and the Mediterranean meet <strong>at</strong> the BSR to develop a<br />
protocol and timetable for the sharing of amphora and<br />
marble d<strong>at</strong>a from port sites across the Mediterranean within<br />
a Semantic Web environment, with a view to a major<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ional conference <strong>at</strong> the BSR (2011) and subsequent<br />
public<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
West Mediterranean Port Hinterlands<br />
This sub-project aims to establish a mediterranean context<br />
for Portus by means of the geophysical analysis by<br />
BSR/APSS of the hinterlands of key provincial ports<br />
supplying <strong>Rome</strong>. Attention to d<strong>at</strong>e has been focused upon<br />
ports in Italy, Iberia and North Africa. <strong>The</strong> most exciting<br />
development this year was a first season of geophysical and<br />
topographical survey <strong>at</strong> Leptis Magna (Libya), focusing<br />
upon the coastline between the famous hunting b<strong>at</strong>hs to the<br />
west and the amphithe<strong>at</strong>re <strong>at</strong> the eastern extremity. It was<br />
undertaken on behalf of Marco Polo Storica in<br />
collabor<strong>at</strong>ion with the Università Roma Tre (Dott.ssa Luisa<br />
Musso), <strong>The</strong>tis (Venice), the Libyan Department of<br />
Antiquities <strong>at</strong> Leptis Magna (Dr Mehemed Massaud) and<br />
with the support of the Society for Libyan Studies.<br />
GEOPHYSICS<br />
Over the course of the year a series of surveys was<br />
conducted <strong>at</strong> important sites throughout Italy, led by Sophie<br />
Hay (APSS) and Stephen Kay (BSR), and involving BSR<br />
staff Elizabeth DeGaetano, Jessica Ogden, Leonie Pett,<br />
Giles Richardson and Gregory Tucker.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team is applying the technique of groundpenetr<strong>at</strong>ing,<br />
specifically radar, on the site of the Temple of<br />
the Gens Flavia in the Piazza della Repubblica, within the<br />
l<strong>at</strong>er B<strong>at</strong>hs of Diocletian on behalf of Professor Filippo<br />
Coarelli; on the site of the Basilica Noniana <strong>at</strong> Herculaneum<br />
on behalf of the Director’s Herculaneum Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Project; in the vicinity of the Porta Stabia <strong>at</strong> Pompeii on<br />
behalf of Dr Steven Ellis (Cincinn<strong>at</strong>i), and <strong>at</strong> the site of Le
Salzare <strong>at</strong> Fosso dell’Incastro near Ardea. This small river<br />
port is currently being investig<strong>at</strong>ed by Dr Francesco Di<br />
Mario (Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per il Lazio),<br />
and the survey focused on investig<strong>at</strong>ing the possible earlier<br />
phases of a Roman temple. Other sites investig<strong>at</strong>ed over the<br />
course of the year include Gabii (Lazio), where a 25-hectare<br />
survey was undertaken on behalf of Dr Nicola Terren<strong>at</strong>o<br />
(Michigan). This completed a study th<strong>at</strong> was begun in 2007<br />
of the whole intramural area of the L<strong>at</strong>in town. It revealed,<br />
for the first time, the unique road network of the town,<br />
which had been heavily influenced by the n<strong>at</strong>ural<br />
topography of the site, which lies on the edge of the<br />
volcanic cr<strong>at</strong>er of Lake Castiglione. This year also saw<br />
further survey in northern Campania, where the BSR was<br />
invited once again by the Comune di Atella (Ing. Salv<strong>at</strong>ore<br />
Di Costanzo) and the Soprintendenza per i Beni<br />
Archeologici di Caserta e Benevento (Dott.ssa Elena<br />
Laforgia) to survey an area in the vicinity of the Roman<br />
town of Atella. <strong>The</strong> survey, applying both resistivity and<br />
Above: A pavement in opus sectile uncovered during the excav<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>at</strong><br />
the site of the Roman villa <strong>at</strong> San Lorenzo (Falacrinae)<br />
Left: Sections by resistance tomography of the Basilica, Herculaneum.<br />
<strong>The</strong> red areas indic<strong>at</strong>e possible buried structures, while the blue areas<br />
indic<strong>at</strong>e Bourbon tunnels<br />
magnetometry, recorded the outbuildings of the medieval<br />
Casale di Teverolaccio.<br />
<strong>The</strong> BSR is also one of a number of collabor<strong>at</strong>ors across<br />
Europe involved in a programme of applied geophysics <strong>at</strong><br />
Ammaia in Portugal, in the context of the RADIO-PAST<br />
project funded by the EU Framework 7 Marie Curie<br />
scheme, coordin<strong>at</strong>ed by the Universities of Ghent and<br />
Evora (Drs Frank Vermeulen and Cristina Corsi).<br />
COLLABORATION WITH THE SOCIETY FOR LIBYAN STUDIES<br />
As a further step in developing a closer rel<strong>at</strong>ionship with the<br />
Society for Libyan Studies, the BSR hosted a workshop in<br />
Punic archaeology in November <strong>2008</strong>. This was organised by<br />
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Andrew Wilson (Society for Libyan Studies) in conjunction<br />
with Josephine Quinn and Jon<strong>at</strong>han Prag (Oxford). It was<br />
funded by the <strong>British</strong> Academy as part of its Reconnecting the<br />
Mediterranean initi<strong>at</strong>ive, and drew upon speakers from<br />
universities in Italy, Malta, Spain, Tunisia and the UK.<br />
OTHER FIELD PROJECTS<br />
<strong>The</strong> fourth season of BSR excav<strong>at</strong>ions took place <strong>at</strong> the site<br />
of Falacrinae, as part of the Vespasian Project directed by Dr<br />
Helen P<strong>at</strong>terson (BSR Molly Cotton Fellow) and Professor<br />
Filippo Coarelli (Perugia). Excav<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>at</strong> the vicus shed light<br />
on the earliest occup<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>at</strong> the site, as well as something of<br />
the non-urban character of the Roman vicus itself. <strong>The</strong> site of<br />
the Roman villa <strong>at</strong> San Lorenzo, being supervised by<br />
Stephen Kay, with the support of BSR staff Roberta Cascino<br />
and Cinzia Filippone, is now understood to have been a<br />
monumental complex, th<strong>at</strong> developed through multiple<br />
phases, beginning under Augustus and growing throughout<br />
the Imperial period until its abandonment in the second<br />
century AD although l<strong>at</strong>er reoccupied in the fourth century<br />
AD. <strong>The</strong> Imperial villa was domin<strong>at</strong>ed by a large courtyard,<br />
with a portico on <strong>at</strong> least one side, while to the west were the<br />
remains of a possible garden. <strong>The</strong> residential area of the villa<br />
lay to the north, where the excav<strong>at</strong>ion revealed a white<br />
mosaic floor, belonging to a second phase of occup<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
and a luxurious marble floor in opus sectile. <strong>The</strong> site was<br />
eventually abandoned in the early fifth century AD, as is<br />
<strong>at</strong>tested by a destruction layer of burnt roof timbers and the<br />
collapsed roof, which sealed a layer rich in ceramics, coins<br />
and bronze vessels. <strong>The</strong> BSR also supported the successful<br />
completion of a further season of excav<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>at</strong> the villa of<br />
Emperor Marcus Aurelius <strong>at</strong> Villa Magna (Anagni), directed<br />
by Dr Lisa Fentress.<br />
CONFERENCES<br />
In addition to those mentioned previously, the BSR hosted<br />
several other conferences and workshops in the course of<br />
the year, including the sixth Incontro di Studi sul Lazio e la<br />
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Sabina, and the second Valle Giulia workshop, Urban<br />
Landscape Survey (March 2009) in conjunction with the<br />
Belgian and Dutch Academies. BSR staff were also busy<br />
giving papers and hosting sessions <strong>at</strong> a range of important<br />
meetings, including the AIAC XVI Congress of Classical<br />
Archaeology <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> (September <strong>2008</strong>), the Incontri<br />
sull’Archeologia dei Paesaggi workshop II <strong>at</strong> Salerno<br />
(November <strong>2008</strong>), Geofisica per l’Archeologia <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> hosted<br />
by CISTeC (December <strong>2008</strong>), Computer Applic<strong>at</strong>ions in<br />
Archaeology <strong>at</strong> Williamsburg, USA (April 2009), ASMOSIA<br />
<strong>at</strong> Tarragona (June 2009). Simon Keay gave the second<br />
Byvanck/BABESCH lecture on the Portus Project <strong>at</strong> the<br />
N<strong>at</strong>ional Archaeological Museum in Leiden in December<br />
<strong>2008</strong>. He was also invited by the Consejo Superior de<br />
Investigaciones Científicas to evalu<strong>at</strong>e the performance and<br />
str<strong>at</strong>egic plan (for the period 2010–13) for the Escuela<br />
Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma in Madrid<br />
(February 2009).<br />
STAFF<br />
After two years’ outstanding work, Leonie Pett (Geophysical<br />
Research Assistant) left in l<strong>at</strong>e September <strong>2008</strong> to start a<br />
PhD <strong>at</strong> the University of Cambridge. Her position was filled<br />
by Gregory Tucker, a masters gradu<strong>at</strong>e in maritime<br />
archaeology from the University of Southampton. Elizabeth<br />
De Gaetano (Geophysical Research Assistant) also departed<br />
in December <strong>2008</strong> after two years’ excellent work <strong>at</strong> the<br />
BSR after her successful applic<strong>at</strong>ion to the AHRC for full<br />
funding to complete her PhD <strong>at</strong> the University of<br />
Southampton. In January 2009 Jessica Ogden, who has just<br />
successfully completed her MSc in Archaeological<br />
Computing and Geophysics <strong>at</strong> the University of<br />
Southampton joined the geophysics team, while Giles<br />
Richardson (Geophysical Research Assistant) departed in<br />
order to further his interest in underw<strong>at</strong>er archaeology.<br />
Simon Keay<br />
Research Professor in Archaeology
FACULTY OF A RCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND L ETTERS<br />
<strong>The</strong> Faculty opened its meeting on 4 March 2009 by<br />
thanking the <strong>School</strong>’s outgoing Director Andrew<br />
Wallace-Hadrill for his ‘solicitous <strong>at</strong>tention to the<br />
professional concerns of the Faculty over the past fourteen<br />
years’. Behind this gesture and comment lies a gre<strong>at</strong> sw<strong>at</strong>he<br />
of achievements on Andrew’s part th<strong>at</strong> have hugely<br />
enhanced the scholarship th<strong>at</strong> we exist to support. It seems<br />
almost invidious to single out individual aspects, but<br />
perhaps I may be permitted to comment on two. First, the<br />
leadership Andrew has shown in developing modern studies<br />
within the <strong>School</strong> – aided, of course, by David Forgacs, who<br />
returns to his post <strong>at</strong> University College London <strong>at</strong> the end<br />
of this academic year and to whom the Faculty is also<br />
immensely gr<strong>at</strong>eful. Second, there are the building projects<br />
th<strong>at</strong> have seen the <strong>School</strong>’s Library and Lecture <strong>The</strong><strong>at</strong>re<br />
become facilities th<strong>at</strong> can hardly be bettered among the<br />
foreign academies in <strong>Rome</strong>. It is a gre<strong>at</strong> credit to Valerie<br />
Scott and her staff th<strong>at</strong> the highest standard of support for<br />
scholarship is being maintained. Meanwhile, the Lecture<br />
<strong>The</strong><strong>at</strong>re has proved so successful a venue th<strong>at</strong> Council has<br />
had to consider a str<strong>at</strong>egic reduction of the programme th<strong>at</strong><br />
the admirable Sue Russell and her colleagues run.<br />
Andrew’s period of time as Director has seen other<br />
developments. <strong>The</strong> Fellowship for Grand Tour or Anglo-<br />
Italian Cultural Studies, generously funded by the Paul<br />
Mellon Centre for Studies in <strong>British</strong> Art, has now passed its<br />
tenth year with the tenure of William Eisler, whilst the new<br />
Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship was held in the autumn by<br />
Rebecca Madgin. Rebecca gave a present<strong>at</strong>ion about her<br />
work to a large audience <strong>at</strong> Sotheby’s in London in January<br />
and has gone straight on to a research fellowship <strong>at</strong> the<br />
University of Glasgow. Meaghan McEvoy (<strong>Rome</strong> Scholar<br />
<strong>2008</strong>–9) will take up a <strong>British</strong> Academy Postdoctoral<br />
Fellowship this coming autumn, while Claire Holleran<br />
(<strong>Rome</strong> Awardee <strong>2008</strong>–9) has a Leverhulme Early Career<br />
Fellowship <strong>at</strong> the University of Liverpool and Emma-Jayne<br />
Graham (<strong>Rome</strong> Fellow 2005–6), has been appointed to a<br />
teaching fellowship <strong>at</strong> the University of St Andrews. It is<br />
also gr<strong>at</strong>ifying th<strong>at</strong> we have been able to pick senior fellows<br />
who have played important mentoring roles <strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong> in<br />
addition to pursuing their own research. Balsdon Fellow<br />
Michael Bury and Hugh Last Fellow Stephen Heyworth are<br />
to be gre<strong>at</strong>ly thanked for their efforts in this regard.<br />
Thanks are also due to the two members of the Faculty<br />
whose five-year terms of office came to an end in<br />
December: Charles Burdett and Ruth Whitehouse. In<br />
addition, Martin Millett has had to step down from the<br />
Faculty this summer in order to take up the position of<br />
Chair of BASIS, the body of the <strong>British</strong> Academy through<br />
which the <strong>School</strong> receives st<strong>at</strong>e support. <strong>The</strong>y leave the<br />
Faculty as it continues to adjust to its new role overseeing<br />
the <strong>School</strong>’s public<strong>at</strong>ions activities as well as awards and<br />
archaeology. <strong>The</strong> early signs are th<strong>at</strong> the new system is<br />
working very well, with a gre<strong>at</strong> increase in the number and<br />
range of colleagues able to have some input to the <strong>School</strong>’s<br />
academic and publishing profile.<br />
It is unfortun<strong>at</strong>e to have to close this report by noting,<br />
however, th<strong>at</strong> financial pressures stemming from reduced<br />
income and an extremely detrimental sterling-euro<br />
exchange r<strong>at</strong>e have begun to have an effect on the Faculty’s<br />
activities. Our March meeting, principally held to award<br />
Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants for 2009–10 (and<br />
masterminded as efficiently as ever by the exceptional<br />
Registrar Gill Clark) saw a strong field of applicants but<br />
was followed by the disappointment of discovering th<strong>at</strong><br />
Council could fund only four of the top five candid<strong>at</strong>es to<br />
be disp<strong>at</strong>ched to <strong>Rome</strong>. This situ<strong>at</strong>ion makes it even more<br />
imper<strong>at</strong>ive for Faculty to keep in mind the need for<br />
external support for the humanities. If there is one thing<br />
readers of this report can do to help, it is to let us know of<br />
organis<strong>at</strong>ions or individuals who might be prevailed upon<br />
to give some support to the humanities activities of the<br />
<strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> th<strong>at</strong> we all value so highly.<br />
Frank Salmon<br />
Chair, Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters<br />
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F INE A RTS AWARDS F INE A RTS S CHOLARS’ ACTIVITIES<br />
Abbey Fellows in Painting<br />
Dragica Janketic Carlin<br />
Luke Caulfield<br />
Graham Durward<br />
Abbey Scholar in Painting<br />
Eddie Peake<br />
Arts Council England Helen Chadwick Fellow<br />
C<strong>at</strong>h Keay<br />
Australia Council Residents<br />
Kimberlee Anderson<br />
Gabriella Bisetto<br />
Penelope Cain<br />
Derek Hill Found<strong>at</strong>ion Scholar in Portraiture<br />
Ruth Murray<br />
Photoworks Fellow<br />
David Spero<br />
Quebec Architecture Resident<br />
Pierre Gendron<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> Scholar in Architecture<br />
James Robertson<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> Scholar in the Fine Arts<br />
Sara Barker<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> Scholar in Landscape Architecture<br />
Joseph Bedford<br />
Sainsbury Scholars in Painting and Sculpture<br />
K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon<br />
Celia Hempton<br />
Sargant Fellow<br />
Amikam Toren<br />
Wing<strong>at</strong>e <strong>Rome</strong> Scholar<br />
Liz Rideal<br />
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Building upon contacts set in place during previous<br />
years, as well as the interest of the new city government<br />
in developing its rel<strong>at</strong>ionships with the foreign academies,<br />
<strong>2008</strong>–9 was marked by a large number of exhibitions and<br />
projects involving BSR artists and architects, who had<br />
frequent contacts with residents of the other foreign<br />
institutions.<br />
On 26 and 27 September <strong>2008</strong>, a brief exhibition entitled<br />
Tempo Reale presented works cre<strong>at</strong>ed by Fine Arts scholars<br />
C<strong>at</strong>h Keay, Amanda Marburg and Liz Rideal, and by other<br />
artists then resident (Christopher Cook, and former Fine<br />
Arts scholars Richard Kirwan and Tony Lloyd).<br />
<strong>The</strong> first of three BSR scholars’ introductory talks took<br />
place on 30 October. <strong>The</strong> following night, Fine Arts<br />
scholars were introduced to cur<strong>at</strong>or Fabio Campagna, a<br />
contact th<strong>at</strong> would bear fruit throughout the year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fine Arts exhibition Figure of 8 — supported by<br />
Dalla Vedova Legal Practice — opened on 12 December<br />
<strong>2008</strong>. It included works by Joseph Bedford, Penelope Cain,<br />
Dragica Carlin, K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, Rebecca<br />
Madgin, Ruth Murray, Eddie Peake and Liz Rideal. <strong>The</strong><br />
exhibition (and the other two th<strong>at</strong> were to follow in March<br />
and June) had many visitors from the other foreign<br />
academies and the <strong>Rome</strong> art community.<br />
Thanks to the support of our lawyer Gianm<strong>at</strong>teo<br />
Nunziante, on 18 December Penelope Cain, K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon<br />
and Liz Rideal exhibited new works in different media,<br />
collectively entitled Avvolgere Svolgere <strong>at</strong> the Nunziante<br />
Magrone Legal Practice’s Christmas cocktail party.<br />
On 23 December, Fabio Campagna organised Bites, an<br />
outdoor video projection of works by Penelope Cain and<br />
Liz Rideal <strong>at</strong> ESC Atelier Occup<strong>at</strong>o in the San Lorenzo<br />
district.<br />
In January, Joseph Bedford, K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon, Celia<br />
Hempton, Eddie Peake and Liz Rideal visited Bologna as<br />
guests of Marianna Di Giansante <strong>at</strong> her Æmilia Hotel, with<br />
a view to the third exhibition of BSR Fine Arts scholars in<br />
the hotel’s Spazio Cultura.
Above: Studio 7, Via Antonio Gramsci 61, <strong>Rome</strong> 2009, by David Spero<br />
(Photoworks Fellow)<br />
Right: Decycle: Abstract, 2009, by Amikam Toren (Sargant Fellow)<br />
On 30 January Joseph Bedford, Penelope Cain, K<strong>at</strong>ie<br />
Cuddon, Celia Hempton, Eddie Peake and Liz Rideal<br />
exhibited <strong>at</strong> RialtoSantambrogio in an event entitled 123456<br />
— Craack!, cur<strong>at</strong>ed by Fabio Campagna. <strong>The</strong> show involved<br />
drawings, video projections and a performance by K<strong>at</strong>ie<br />
Cuddon, Celia Hempton and Eddie Peake, wearing<br />
costumes cre<strong>at</strong>ed by Eddie.<br />
On 3 February Eddie, K<strong>at</strong>ie and Celia reworked this<br />
performance as Tracce, walking from the Pantheon to a stage<br />
set in the Temple of Hadrian, on the final night of the yearly<br />
Alta Roma fashion show.<br />
<strong>The</strong> March Fine Arts exhibition, Our Lives are Full of<br />
Remarkable Coincidences, including Sara Barker, Joseph Bedford,<br />
Gabriella Bisetto, Luke Caulfield, K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon, Celia<br />
Hempton, C<strong>at</strong>h Keay, Eddie Peake and James Robertson,<br />
opened on 13 March. <strong>The</strong> exhibition was the subject of a<br />
lecture given by Jacopo Benci to a group of Contemporary<br />
European Art History students from Università della Tuscia.<br />
Accademia delle Accademie, involving 28 artists from eight<br />
foreign academies, cur<strong>at</strong>ed by Shara Wasserman, took place<br />
from 1 to 5 April <strong>at</strong> the Temple of Hadrian, as part of <strong>The</strong><br />
Road to Contemporary Art intern<strong>at</strong>ional art fair. A new<br />
gener<strong>at</strong>ion of <strong>British</strong> artists was brought to the <strong>at</strong>tention of<br />
F I N E A R T S S C H O L A R S ’ A C T I V I T I E S<br />
a wider public through the work of BSR participants Sara<br />
Barker, K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon, Celia Hempton and Eddie Peake.<br />
Marco Delogu, director of the annual FotoGrafia festival,<br />
invited the foreign academies to particip<strong>at</strong>e in the 2009<br />
edition. David Spero, the inaugural Photoworks Fellow,<br />
represented the <strong>School</strong>. Photoworks generously supported<br />
the project by securing the shipment of David’s<br />
photographs to <strong>Rome</strong>. <strong>The</strong> exhibition David Spero: Churches,<br />
opened <strong>at</strong> the BSR on 15 May. It was the subject of a lecture<br />
given by Jacopo Benci to a group of students from the<br />
Perugia Academy of Fine Arts. On 29 May David Spero<br />
gave a talk about his work <strong>at</strong> the Palazzo delle Esposizioni,<br />
as part of the events programme of FotoGrafia 2009, and on<br />
31 May he signed copies of his Churches monograph <strong>at</strong> s.t.<br />
fotolibreriagalleria. Also on 31 May, Jacopo Benci gave an<br />
illustr<strong>at</strong>ed talk <strong>at</strong> the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on the<br />
showreel programme he cur<strong>at</strong>ed for the festival, Emotion<br />
Recollected in Tranquillity, comprising works by nine<br />
photographers/artists (seven of whom were ex–BSR<br />
scholars).<br />
Several other exhibitions involving BSR Fine Arts<br />
scholars took place in May and June. Grand Tour Bologna. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong>, II (Joseph Bedford, K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon,<br />
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F I N E A R T S S C H O L A R S ’ A C T I V I T I E S<br />
Above: One foot x one foot x one second, 2007, by<br />
Pierre Gendron (Québec Architecture Resident)<br />
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Right: Principe di Piemonte, 2009,<br />
by C<strong>at</strong>h Keay (ACE Helen Chadwick<br />
Fellow)<br />
Below: Child of the Gre<strong>at</strong> Transformers, <strong>2008</strong>,<br />
by Ruth Murray (Derek Hill Found<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Scholar)<br />
Left: Circles, <strong>2008</strong>, by Dragica Janketic<br />
Carlin (Abbey Fellow in Painting)<br />
Right: Untitled Hunting Appar<strong>at</strong>us, 2009,<br />
by K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon (Sainsbury Scholar in<br />
Painting and Sculpture)
Pound, 2009, by Penelope Cain (Australia Council Resident)<br />
Celia Hempton, Eddie Peake and Liz Rideal) opened on 12<br />
May <strong>at</strong> Æmilia Hotel in Bologna. K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon, Celia<br />
Hempton and Eddie Peake particip<strong>at</strong>ed in the seventh<br />
edition of Spazi Aperti, cur<strong>at</strong>ed by Mirela Pribac <strong>at</strong> the<br />
Romanian Academy. <strong>The</strong> second edition of Academy<br />
Architects <strong>at</strong> the Acquario <strong>at</strong> the Casa dell’Architettura, cur<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
by Shara Wasserman, opened on 3 June. This included<br />
Joseph Bedford and Pierre Gendron, the inaugural Quebec<br />
Architecture Resident.<br />
Don’t Look Away, the final Fine Arts exhibition for <strong>2008</strong>–9,<br />
opened on 12 June, involving new works by Joseph Bedford,<br />
K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon, Graham Durward, Pierre Gendron, Celia<br />
Hempton, Eddie Peake, David Spero and Amikam Toren.<br />
David Spero was invited to take part in the exhibition A<br />
Question of Time. Roman Campaigns: Historical and Contemporary<br />
Photography, which opened on 15 June <strong>at</strong> the American<br />
Academy in <strong>Rome</strong>. <strong>The</strong> show combined historic<br />
photographs of <strong>Rome</strong> with new interpret<strong>at</strong>ions of the same<br />
sites by six contemporary photographers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> year was given a fitting conclusion on 27 June with<br />
the performance/exhibition Second Style: an Odyssey Frieze,<br />
conceived and directed by Ralegh Radford <strong>Rome</strong> Scholar<br />
Marden Nichols, staged in the BSR gallery — adorned with<br />
large scale mural replicas of the first-century BC Odyssey<br />
Frieze painted by Celia Hempton — and performed by<br />
K<strong>at</strong>ie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, Jessica Harris, Sarah<br />
Keenan-Jones, Duncan Keenan-Jones, and Joseph Bedford.<br />
F I N E A R T S S C H O L A R S ’ A C T I V I T I E S<br />
This was followed by a farewell party in honour of Andrew<br />
and Jo Wallace-Hadrill.<br />
A series of monthly screenings of films on modern <strong>Rome</strong><br />
made between 1945 and 2005 ran throughout the year. <strong>The</strong><br />
films were selected and introduced by David Forgacs and<br />
Jacopo Benci, who also discussed each film with the<br />
particip<strong>at</strong>ing residents.<br />
Fine Arts site visits included a tour of a selection of the<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> galleries opening for the October Roma Art Weekend;<br />
a visit to Monte Testaccio, the Protestant Cemetery, the<br />
Testaccio quarter, and Luigi Moretti’s Ex-GIL on 21<br />
October; and a joint Fine Arts and Humanities trip to<br />
Vicenza and Parma for the Palladio and Correggio<br />
exhibitions (7–9 November). A walk around the 1930s–40s<br />
monumental area of EUR, on 9 February 2009, included<br />
specially arranged tours of the Palazzo dei Congressi and<br />
the Palazzo degli Uffici. A second visit to Luigi Moretti’s<br />
Ex-GIL, hosted by Architect Luigi Prisco of Regione Lazio,<br />
took place on 19 February, and a tour of the 1920–31<br />
Garb<strong>at</strong>ella council-housing est<strong>at</strong>es took place on 17 April.<br />
Scholars were provided with inform<strong>at</strong>ion on events <strong>at</strong> the<br />
other foreign academies and <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> galleries and<br />
museums; and were given advice and support for individual<br />
and group explor<strong>at</strong>ions of <strong>Rome</strong> and further afield. An<br />
excellent example of a fruitful use of these opportunities<br />
was Joseph Bedford’s film <strong>The</strong> Walls of <strong>Rome</strong>: Towards<br />
DeTermin<strong>at</strong>ion, shown <strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong> in the Don’t Look Away<br />
exhibition. <strong>The</strong> film had been growing through the year,<br />
incorpor<strong>at</strong>ing places, issues and people Joseph had come<br />
across through discussions, film screenings and site visits<br />
and through contacts secured by members of staff.<br />
Research Assistant Alessandra Giacinti provided<br />
constant, effective support for all of the events, worked on<br />
sourcing m<strong>at</strong>erials and suppliers for the Fine Arts scholars,<br />
and helped them engage with the city.<br />
Jacopo Benci<br />
Assistant Director (Fine Arts)<br />
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FACULTY OF THE F INE A RTS<br />
This has been a year of considerable change and reassessment.<br />
As the new Chair of the Faculty of the Fine<br />
Arts, it is my pleasure to congr<strong>at</strong>ul<strong>at</strong>e Andrew Wallace-<br />
Hadrill on his new appointment and to thank him for his<br />
contribution to the role of Fine Arts <strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong>, for a<br />
building programme th<strong>at</strong> extended the gallery facilities and<br />
for the development of an ambitious range of opportunities<br />
for artists <strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong>. I must also thank Jenni Lomax<br />
who, for six years as Chair, has given her time, support and<br />
invaluable advice to both staff and the Faculty. I join with<br />
members of the Faculty in congr<strong>at</strong>ul<strong>at</strong>ing her following her<br />
award of the OBE, for ‘services to the visual arts’. I must also<br />
thank members of the Faculty who stepped down this year,<br />
C<strong>at</strong>hy Hawley and Alison Turnbull, and welcome new<br />
members, Sonia Boyce MBE, William Cobbing, Tania Kov<strong>at</strong>s<br />
and the architect Robert Tavernor.<br />
During the year two new opportunities were introduced<br />
to the <strong>School</strong>’s residency programme and, sadly, one, the<br />
Wing<strong>at</strong>e <strong>Rome</strong> Scholarship in the Fine Arts, ceased after a<br />
very successful ten-year period. <strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> is gr<strong>at</strong>eful to<br />
the Harold Hyam Wing<strong>at</strong>e Found<strong>at</strong>ion for its support of<br />
this scholarship, and the opportunity it provided for one<br />
artist each year to be a part of the <strong>School</strong> community for<br />
five months.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Photoworks Fellowship is the first residency <strong>at</strong> the<br />
BSR devoted exclusively to photography and lens-based<br />
media. It will be available every two years, and is designed to<br />
give mid-career artists an opportunity to undertake a threemonth<br />
period of studio-based research. <strong>The</strong> residency is<br />
supported by Photoworks, an independent visual arts<br />
organis<strong>at</strong>ion th<strong>at</strong> provides opportunities for emerging and<br />
established artists, cur<strong>at</strong>ors and writers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Quebec Architecture Scholarship, funded by the<br />
Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, is a three-month<br />
residency for professionals in the field of architecture,<br />
landscape architecture, urban planning and environmental<br />
design. It adds further depth to the innov<strong>at</strong>ive architecture<br />
programme.<br />
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After twelve years, the year marked the end in its current<br />
form of the Contemporary Arts Programme <strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong>,<br />
which had presented an imagin<strong>at</strong>ive and ambitious<br />
programme. <strong>The</strong> Faculty extends gr<strong>at</strong>eful thanks to<br />
Cristiana Perrella, cur<strong>at</strong>or since 1998, who brought to the<br />
<strong>School</strong> and to <strong>Rome</strong> many of the most significant <strong>British</strong><br />
artists of the last decade. One-person shows included those<br />
by Martin Maloney, Mark Wallinger, Adam Chodzko,<br />
Richard Billingham, Yinka Shonibare, Sophy Rickett, Martin<br />
Creed, Mike Nelson, Douglas Gordon, Ian Kiaer and Chris<br />
Evans. Cristiana’s programme of recent video art has been<br />
recognised properly as a major contribution to the<br />
document<strong>at</strong>ion of contemporary film and has included<br />
Sweetie; Female Identity in <strong>British</strong> Art, Video Vibe, and the Video<br />
Zone series. Screenings and lecture series added considerably<br />
to local interest in the <strong>School</strong>’s programme.<br />
It was with gre<strong>at</strong> sadness th<strong>at</strong> we heard of the de<strong>at</strong>h in<br />
July of Gordon Burn, the inaugural Sargant Fellow in<br />
Cur<strong>at</strong>orial and Critical Studies, 2007–8.<br />
During the year, Tim Llewellyn, the distinguished art<br />
historian and BSR Council member, undertook a review of<br />
the fine arts <strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong> and reported to Council. <strong>The</strong><br />
primary focus of the review was the artists’ residencies and<br />
their rel<strong>at</strong>ionship with the rest of the <strong>School</strong>. Tim’s<br />
recommend<strong>at</strong>ions were welcomed by Council and Faculty as<br />
both timely and encouraging of a more coherent and<br />
engaging approach to contemporary visual practice. He<br />
proposes to establish long-term strands of investig<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
embracing all disciplines, and to reintroduce the means by<br />
which distinguished practitioners might have a regular<br />
presence in the <strong>School</strong>. <strong>The</strong>re are many practical and<br />
financial implic<strong>at</strong>ions to the proposals, and the Faculty and I<br />
look forward to working with him, the staff, Council and<br />
the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters to realise<br />
many aspects of our aspir<strong>at</strong>ions for the future.<br />
John Gill<br />
Chair, Faculty of the Fine Arts
A RCHITECTURE P ROGRAMME<br />
This year saw the continu<strong>at</strong>ion of the series<br />
London–<strong>Rome</strong>: Work in Process. This programme aims to<br />
provide a forum for deb<strong>at</strong>e between visiting architects, BSR<br />
residents and Italian professionals and scholars, by<br />
discussing the experiences and concerns of young architects<br />
in the two capitals and comparing and contrasting<br />
influences, working methods, conditions and opportunities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> programme is organised in collabor<strong>at</strong>ion with the<br />
Architecture Found<strong>at</strong>ion in London and the<br />
PARC–Ministero dei Beni Culturali in <strong>Rome</strong> and INARCH<br />
(Istituto Nazionale di Architettura).<br />
A further objective of these events is to provide useful<br />
contacts in <strong>Rome</strong> and Italy for BSR architects and artists<br />
and to <strong>at</strong>tract funding and new scholarships.<br />
In November, the London practice AOC gave a lecture and<br />
exhibition as the second event in the series. Even though<br />
AOC were rel<strong>at</strong>ively unknown in Italy, Tom Coward and<br />
Daisy Froud <strong>at</strong>tracted a large and predominantly young<br />
audience. As well as providing a dynamic lecture, AOC<br />
transformed the foyer space with a highly-entertaining show<br />
made up of a series of interactive wall drawings, working<br />
diagrams and photographs. AOC’s more experimental<br />
approach to their work is similar to th<strong>at</strong> of some of the<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> practices, including the Roman architects Ma0, whom<br />
we fe<strong>at</strong>ured in the summer of <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
Also during November, we were asked by the design<br />
gallery, Babuino 900, to host the launch of the book<br />
Cucchi/Sottsass. It documents the collabor<strong>at</strong>ion between the<br />
artist and architect, which led to them working together for<br />
the University of Salerno. <strong>The</strong> present<strong>at</strong>ion was followed by<br />
the opening of the Sottsass exhibition <strong>at</strong> Babuino 900 and<br />
links to our previous cycle of lectures and exhibitions Spaces<br />
for Art, which concentr<strong>at</strong>ed on the rel<strong>at</strong>ionship between art<br />
and architecture.<br />
In February 2009, the London-based practice Carmody<br />
Groarke provoked lively deb<strong>at</strong>e with a lecture th<strong>at</strong> focused<br />
on both their temporary and permanent pavilions, their<br />
collabor<strong>at</strong>ions with artists, and their 7 July Memorial th<strong>at</strong><br />
Time Scale, an exhibition by Carmody Groarke to accompany their talk<br />
in February 2009<br />
opened in Hyde Park, London in summer 2009. <strong>The</strong>ir<br />
exhibition of models and wall drawings, Time Scale,<br />
concentr<strong>at</strong>ed on the wide range and scale of work by this<br />
three-year-old practice.<br />
Andrea Stipa Architettura, the second of the <strong>Rome</strong> practices<br />
fe<strong>at</strong>ured in the current series, ended the cycle for the year by<br />
producing an unusual install<strong>at</strong>ion to display some of its most<br />
recent projects, many of them still to be built. Doubtless, the<br />
difficult working conditions suffered by Italian architects<br />
will be one of the themes discussed <strong>at</strong> forthcoming events.<br />
Looking forward, Witherford W<strong>at</strong>son Mann and IAN+<br />
will show <strong>at</strong> the BSR in autumn 2009. London-<strong>Rome</strong>: Work in<br />
Process will then conclude with a series of three round table<br />
discussions between the London and <strong>Rome</strong> architects <strong>at</strong> the<br />
Royal College of Art in February 2010 organised in<br />
collabor<strong>at</strong>ion with the Architecture Found<strong>at</strong>ion in London.<br />
None of these events could take place without the support<br />
of our sponsors: the PARC, the John S. Cohen Found<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
the Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust, the <strong>British</strong> Council, the<br />
Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust and the Australian<br />
Embassy. Finally, we would also like to thank Fulvio Astolfi,<br />
Jacopo Benci, Ren<strong>at</strong>o Parente, Giuseppe Pellegrino, Chris<br />
Siwicki and Rosanna Tripaldi for all their help.<br />
Marina Engel<br />
Cur<strong>at</strong>or, Architecture Programme<br />
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P UBLICATIONS<br />
Anticip<strong>at</strong>ion and expect<strong>at</strong>ion — these have been the<br />
key words for the public<strong>at</strong>ions programme in <strong>2008</strong>–9.<br />
At the meeting of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and<br />
Letters in November, the Chair of Public<strong>at</strong>ions was able to<br />
report th<strong>at</strong>, after a puzzling hi<strong>at</strong>us, we expected some seven<br />
volumes, all of them closely linked to <strong>School</strong> projects, to be<br />
submitted within the following twelve months for<br />
consider<strong>at</strong>ion for public<strong>at</strong>ion by the <strong>School</strong>. Four of these<br />
have been submitted, have been assessed by external<br />
readers, and have been accepted for public<strong>at</strong>ion. Thus<br />
2009–10 will be an exceptionally busy year, preparing the<br />
volumes and then publishing them. <strong>The</strong> range of titles<br />
hopefully will prove <strong>at</strong>tractive to many: Roma Britannica. Art<br />
P<strong>at</strong>ronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-century <strong>Rome</strong>,<br />
edited by David R. Marshall, Susan Russell and Karin<br />
Wolfe; San Vincenzo Maggiore and its Workshops, by Richard<br />
Hodges, Sarah Leppard and John Mitchell; ‘Veii. <strong>The</strong><br />
Historical Topography of the Ancient City’. A Restudy of John<br />
Ward-Perkins’s Survey, edited by Helen P<strong>at</strong>terson, Roberta<br />
Cascino and Helga Di Giuseppe; and Recent Archaeological<br />
Research <strong>at</strong> Portus and in its Hinterland, edited by Simon Keay<br />
and Lidia Paroli.<br />
Those volumes th<strong>at</strong> have been published continue to<br />
receive excellent reviews. Of Archives & Excav<strong>at</strong>ions, edited<br />
by the l<strong>at</strong>e Ilaria Bignamini, ‘This is an illumin<strong>at</strong>ing volume<br />
of collected papers … a fascin<strong>at</strong>ing and well-produced<br />
volume, which reveals the wealth of tapped and untapped<br />
archive m<strong>at</strong>erial for <strong>Rome</strong> … [Contributions] all are<br />
extremely accessible and suitably illustr<strong>at</strong>ed’, Journal of<br />
Medieval Archaeology 52 (<strong>2008</strong>); of Between Text and Territory,<br />
edited by Kim Bowes, Karen Francis and Richard Hodges,<br />
‘un’importante pubblicazione … la sintesi … sulla quasi<br />
ventennale <strong>at</strong>tività della missione britannica nel territorio<br />
circostante la fondazione monastica molisana … Il bel titolo<br />
del volume ricorda la fortuna di S. Vincenzo, fondazione<br />
ricca tanto di fonti scritte quanto di evidenze m<strong>at</strong>eriali, ed è<br />
anche ripreso [nel] capitolo conclusivo che, non a caso, si<br />
chiude ricordando l’opzione metodologica di tutto il lavoro,<br />
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cioè l’integrazione tra fonti scritte e reperti archeologici’,<br />
Quellen und Forschungen 88 (<strong>2008</strong>).<br />
Papers of the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> 76 (<strong>2008</strong>) was published<br />
in December. This was the first volume with a new design.<br />
It contains a range of papers, including contributions on a<br />
possible painting of Cleop<strong>at</strong>ra in Pompeii (by Susan Walker,<br />
Balsdon Fellow 2006–7), on the walls of <strong>Rome</strong> between the<br />
Porta L<strong>at</strong>ina and the Appia (by Lucos Cozza, Honorary<br />
Fellow), on the Jerusalem Temple treasure and the church<br />
of Santi Cosma e Damiano in <strong>Rome</strong> (by John Osborne,<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> Scholar 1978–9, Honorary Fellow), on a portrait of<br />
Cardinal Pompeo Colonna (by Piers Baker B<strong>at</strong>es, <strong>Rome</strong><br />
Scholar 2002–3), on the use of events in the Middle Ages<br />
(especially the barbarian migr<strong>at</strong>ions) in Risorgimento<br />
liter<strong>at</strong>ure and music (by Ian Wood, Balsdon Fellow 2005–6),<br />
and on recent migr<strong>at</strong>ion to Italy, and in particular the<br />
verbalis<strong>at</strong>ions of power rel<strong>at</strong>ions between hosts and<br />
migrants, and the verbal and visual represent<strong>at</strong>ions of<br />
migrants (by David Forgacs, <strong>Rome</strong> Scholar 1977–8,<br />
currently BSR Research Professor in Modern Studies).<br />
We can also report th<strong>at</strong> an agreement has been signed<br />
with JSTOR, so th<strong>at</strong> back issues of the Papers will be<br />
included in their digital archive. This should be of<br />
enormous value to the <strong>School</strong> and the academic community<br />
more generally.<br />
Academic valid<strong>at</strong>ion for the formal academic<br />
public<strong>at</strong>ions of the <strong>School</strong> rests with the Faculty of<br />
Archaeology, History and Letters. We are gr<strong>at</strong>eful to all<br />
members of the Faculty for their contribution, and in<br />
particular to the Chair of Public<strong>at</strong>ions, Bryan Ward-Perkins,<br />
and the Editor of the Papers, Josephine Crawley Quinn, who<br />
are extremely generous with their time and knowledge.<br />
Gill Clark<br />
Public<strong>at</strong>ions Manager<br />
A list of public<strong>at</strong>ions in print and details of how to order books appear on<br />
pages 52–3. Any enquiries should be addressed to the <strong>School</strong>’s London office.
L IBRARY AND A RCHIVE<br />
<strong>The</strong>re has been an extraordinary increase in activities and<br />
events rel<strong>at</strong>ing to the Library and Archive over the past<br />
few years, which was triggered in 2002 by a generous grant<br />
from <strong>The</strong> Getty Found<strong>at</strong>ion. This funded the c<strong>at</strong>aloguing of<br />
three nineteenth-century collections of photographs and, to<br />
publicise the project, an exhibition of a selection from one<br />
of these collections was held in the BSR in 2005: the<br />
photographs of <strong>Rome</strong> taken by F<strong>at</strong>her Peter Paul Mackey<br />
during the 1890s.<br />
This exhibition travelled to London in June 2009 and was<br />
hosted by Sir John Soane’s Museum — a prestigious venue<br />
indeed. <strong>The</strong> new partnership th<strong>at</strong> has been established<br />
between the two institutions this year is very exciting and we<br />
look forward to hosting an event for the Museum in <strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
But this would not have come about without the support of<br />
our friends, John and Virginia Murray, to whom we are very<br />
gr<strong>at</strong>eful. Thanks to the generous contributions from many<br />
BSR friends and sponsors, in particular Peter and Anne<br />
Wiseman, Gifford Combs and the Paul Mellon Centre for<br />
Studies in <strong>British</strong> Art, the exhibition travelled to London<br />
and was accompanied by a c<strong>at</strong>alogue written by Robert<br />
Co<strong>at</strong>es-Stephens, BSR Cary Fellow. This volume presents a<br />
fascin<strong>at</strong>ing portrait of a little-known <strong>Rome</strong> <strong>at</strong> the end of the<br />
nineteenth century. On the one hand, it appears still<br />
immersed in the countryside, more rural than urban, with<br />
vineyards and market gardens. On the other hand, it is a city<br />
in ferment, with demolition and building work taking place;<br />
a city unexpectedly industrial, with smoking chimneys on<br />
the skyline and factories in the Circus Maximus.<br />
A second grant from <strong>The</strong> Getty Found<strong>at</strong>ion in 2007, to<br />
fund the c<strong>at</strong>aloguing of part of the J.B. Ward-Perkins<br />
collection of photographs rel<strong>at</strong>ing to Italian monuments<br />
damaged during the Second World War, the archaeology of<br />
Libya and the South Etruria Survey, has also acted as a<br />
c<strong>at</strong>alyst, linking the BSR to other intern<strong>at</strong>ional initi<strong>at</strong>ives.<br />
In January, Alessandra Ciangherotti, one of the Getty<br />
Project c<strong>at</strong>aloguers, gave a paper on the Ward-Perkins<br />
collection <strong>at</strong> a seminar on damage to Italian monuments<br />
<strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> Archive ■ Sir John Soane's Museum<br />
Immagini e memoria<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> in the photographs of F<strong>at</strong>her Peter Paul Mackey<br />
1890-1901<br />
Cover of the exhibition c<strong>at</strong>alogue, Immagini e Memoria: <strong>Rome</strong> in the<br />
Photographs of F<strong>at</strong>her Peter Paul Mackey 1890–1901<br />
during the Second World War organised by the Uguccione<br />
Ranieri Sorbello Found<strong>at</strong>ion, Perugia. <strong>The</strong> outcome of this<br />
seminar is an applic<strong>at</strong>ion to the EU for funding for a joint<br />
research project. In February the Librarian was invited to<br />
give a paper on the project <strong>at</strong> the colloquium organised by<br />
the Society for Libyan Studies and the Inscriptions of<br />
Roman Cyrenaica project (of which we are a partner):<br />
Roman Libya: Epigraphy, Geography and Archaeology held <strong>at</strong><br />
King’s College, London.<br />
We have also been invited to particip<strong>at</strong>e in a project<br />
entitled Danni bellici e restauro. Opere di difesa, guasti, pr<strong>at</strong>iche<br />
d’intervento edilizio e urbano nel secondo dopoguerra, funded by<br />
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the Italian Ministry for Higher Educ<strong>at</strong>ion and Research and<br />
involving five Italian universities.<br />
This project also includes the cre<strong>at</strong>ion of a new<br />
website: BSR Library and Archive Digital Collections. <strong>The</strong><br />
digitised images from the c<strong>at</strong>alogued photographs will be<br />
accessible on this site and it is hoped th<strong>at</strong>, in the future,<br />
other m<strong>at</strong>erial — including maps, prints and engravings<br />
and manuscripts from the Library collection and<br />
documents from the Archive — will also be available.<br />
Two pilot projects have already been completed: a<br />
selection of maps of <strong>Rome</strong> digitised by the Bibliotheca<br />
Hertziana as part of the C<strong>at</strong>alogo Illustr<strong>at</strong>o delle Piante di<br />
Roma Online project and 100 miscellaneous prints from<br />
the Thomas Ashby collection funded by the Australian<br />
Research Council. <strong>The</strong> m<strong>at</strong>erial has been c<strong>at</strong>alogued by<br />
Be<strong>at</strong>rice Gelosia, Deputy Librarian.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Getty Found<strong>at</strong>ion Grants, therefore, have been<br />
fundamental for the development of the BSR Library and<br />
Archive over the past seven years, not only funding the<br />
c<strong>at</strong>aloguing of over 25,000 images from the Photographic<br />
Archive and a new dedic<strong>at</strong>ed website, but also stimul<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
our particip<strong>at</strong>ion in rel<strong>at</strong>ed intern<strong>at</strong>ional projects, facilit<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
our fundraising activity, and cre<strong>at</strong>ing opportunities for<br />
outreach: exhibitions, public<strong>at</strong>ions, seminars and courses in<br />
the history of photographic techniques organised by the<br />
BSR Archivist, Alessandra Giovenco. We are profoundly<br />
gr<strong>at</strong>eful.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Librarian was honoured to receive an invit<strong>at</strong>ion to<br />
spend a week <strong>at</strong> the Getty Research Institute in October,<br />
meeting cur<strong>at</strong>ors and staff and discovering the wealth of<br />
remarkable resources, which was a very useful and<br />
stimul<strong>at</strong>ing experience. This followed the symposium Sir<br />
William Gell and the Topographical Imagin<strong>at</strong>ion, held <strong>at</strong> the Getty<br />
Villa, <strong>at</strong> which both the Director and the Librarian gave<br />
papers on the manuscripts held in the BSR Library.<br />
Other news. <strong>The</strong> number of outside readers using the<br />
Library has continued to rise and the graph clearly shows<br />
the dram<strong>at</strong>ic increase. It is, once again, only thanks to David<br />
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<strong>The</strong> numbers of outside readers using the BSR Library<br />
Packard’s generous support, through the Packard<br />
Humanities Institute, th<strong>at</strong> we can continue to provide an<br />
efficient service and welcome all scholars to the Library.<br />
<strong>The</strong> lack of space is also a recurrent problem and some<br />
areas of the Library are already full. However, we have<br />
exceptionally agreed to accept a bequest from the est<strong>at</strong>e<br />
of Piero Lugli, son of Giuseppe Lugli (the archaeologist<br />
and friend of Thomas Ashby), who expressed the desire<br />
th<strong>at</strong> part of his Archive, mainly rel<strong>at</strong>ing to his f<strong>at</strong>her,<br />
should come to the BSR. This will be housed in the BSR<br />
Archive office.<br />
We were saddened by the news th<strong>at</strong> Michael Mallett,<br />
<strong>Rome</strong> Scholar in 1957 and Assistant Director/Librarian<br />
from 1962 to 1967 passed away in September <strong>2008</strong>. <strong>The</strong><br />
BSR Library has been named as a beneficiary and we have<br />
selected a number of books from his library. It is with<br />
pleasure th<strong>at</strong> we have incorpor<strong>at</strong>ed these into the Library’s<br />
collections and our sincere condolences and thanks go to<br />
Luke and Alex Mallett.<br />
Valerie Scott<br />
Librarian
P UBLICATIONS AND E XHIBITIONS BY S TAFF<br />
Jacopo Benci<br />
<strong>2008</strong> Jacopo Benci – Itinerari silenziosi, Nuovo Cinema Aquila,<br />
<strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
2009 Alla corte del C<strong>at</strong>tivo Governo, Lav<strong>at</strong>oio Contumaciale,<br />
<strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
2009 Fra le qu<strong>at</strong>tro pareti domestiche: Qu<strong>at</strong>tro bis,<br />
Fralequ<strong>at</strong>tropareti, <strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
2009 ‘(Re)opening up worlds’, in M. Pribac (ed.), Spazi<br />
Aperti 7: 9–10. <strong>Rome</strong>, <strong>The</strong> Romanian Academy.<br />
Robert Co<strong>at</strong>es-Stephens<br />
<strong>2008</strong> ‘Notes from <strong>Rome</strong>’, in Papers of the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong><br />
<strong>Rome</strong> 76: 299–307.<br />
2009 Immagini e Memoria. <strong>Rome</strong> in the Photographs of F<strong>at</strong>her<br />
Peter Paul Mackey 1890–1901, c<strong>at</strong>alogue of the<br />
exhibition held <strong>at</strong> Sir John Soane’s Museum, London,<br />
from 19 June to 12 September 2009. London, <strong>British</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
Marina Engel<br />
<strong>2008</strong> La Stanza Rossa (Franco Purini), Fondazione Volume,<br />
<strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
David Forgacs<br />
<strong>2008</strong> ‘<strong>The</strong> words of the migrant: tales of contemporary<br />
Italy’, in Papers of the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> 76: 277–97.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> ‘Neorealismo, identità nazionale, modernità’, in L.<br />
Venzi (ed.), Incontro al neorealismo: 211–21. <strong>Rome</strong>,<br />
Edizioni Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> Full-length audio commentary on ll deserto rosso (M.<br />
Antonioni, 1964), DVD and Blu-ray. London, <strong>British</strong><br />
Film Institute.<br />
2009 ‘La photographie et la dénarr<strong>at</strong>ivis<strong>at</strong>ion de la pr<strong>at</strong>ique<br />
ciném<strong>at</strong>ographique en Italie (1935–1955)’, in L.<br />
Guido and O. Lugon (eds), Fixe/Animé: Croisements de<br />
la photographie et du cinéma au XXe siècle: 129–46.<br />
Geneva, Droz.<br />
2009 ‘Fotografia e antinarr<strong>at</strong>ività: alla ricerca delle origini<br />
del neorealismo cinem<strong>at</strong>ografico in Italia’, in Studi e<br />
ricerche 4/2: 41–58.<br />
Sue Russell<br />
2009 ‘Girolamo Mercuriale’s De Arte Gymnastica and papal<br />
health <strong>at</strong> the Villa Pamphilj, <strong>Rome</strong>’, in A. Arcangeli<br />
and V. Nutton (eds), Girolamo Mercuriale. Medicina e<br />
cultura nell’Europa del Cinquecento. Atti del convegno<br />
‘Girolamo Mercuriale e lo spazio scientifico e culturale del<br />
Cinquecento’ (Forlì, 8–11 novembre 2006): 163–77. N. 10,<br />
Bibliothèque d’Histoire des Sciences. Florence, Leo S.<br />
Olschki.<br />
Simon Keay and Camerone Staff<br />
<strong>2008</strong> F. Coarelli, S. Kay and H. P<strong>at</strong>terson, ‘Investig<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>at</strong><br />
Falacrinae, the birth place of Vespasian’, in Papers of<br />
the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> 76: 47–73.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> R. Ferraby, S. Hay, S. Keay and M. Millett,<br />
‘Archaeological survey <strong>at</strong> Fregellae 2004–5’, in C.<br />
Corsi and E. Polito (eds), Dalle sorgenti alla foce. Il<br />
bacino del Liri-Garigliano nell’antichità: culture, cont<strong>at</strong>ti,<br />
scambi. Atti del convegno, Frosinone–Formia 10–12<br />
novembre 2005: 125–31. <strong>Rome</strong>, Quasar.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> S. Hay, S. Keay, M. Millett and T. Sly, ‘Urban fieldsurvey<br />
<strong>at</strong> Ocriculum (Otricoli, Umbria)’, in F. Coarelli<br />
and H. P<strong>at</strong>terson (eds), Merc<strong>at</strong>or Placidissimus. <strong>The</strong><br />
Tiber Valley in Antiquity. New Research in the Upper and<br />
Middle River Valley: 797–809. <strong>Rome</strong>, Quasar.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> S. Keay, G. Earl, S. Hay, S. Kay, J. Ogden and K.<br />
Strutt, ‘<strong>The</strong> potential of archaeological geophysics:<br />
the work of the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong>’, in Geofisica<br />
per l’archeologia. Possibilità e limiti. Atti del convegno, Roma,<br />
Palazzo Massimo: 25–44. <strong>Rome</strong>, CISTEC.<br />
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<strong>2008</strong> S. Kay and R. Witcher, ‘<strong>The</strong> Tiber Valley Project. <strong>The</strong><br />
d<strong>at</strong>abase and geographical inform<strong>at</strong>ion system’, in F.<br />
Coarelli and H. P<strong>at</strong>terson (eds), Merc<strong>at</strong>or<br />
Placidissimus. <strong>The</strong> Tiber Valley in antiquity. New Research<br />
in the Upper and Middle River Valley: 417–29. <strong>Rome</strong>,<br />
Quasar.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> S. Hay, S. Kay and K. Strutt, ‘Geophysics projects’, in<br />
Papers of the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> 76: 328–30.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> F. Coarelli and H. P<strong>at</strong>terson, Merc<strong>at</strong>or Placidissimus.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tiber Valley in Antiquity. New Research in the Upper<br />
and Middle River Valley. <strong>Rome</strong>, Quasar.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> S. Keay and K. Strutt, ‘<strong>The</strong> role of integr<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
geophysical survey methods in the assessment of<br />
archaeological landscapes: the case of Portus’, in R.<br />
Lasaponara and N. Masini (eds), Advances on Remote<br />
Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management.<br />
Proceedings of the 1st Intern<strong>at</strong>ional EARSeL Workshop<br />
CNR, <strong>Rome</strong>, 30 September – 4 October: 121–4. <strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> H. P<strong>at</strong>terson, ‘<strong>The</strong> middle Tiber valley in the l<strong>at</strong>e<br />
antique and early medieval periods: some<br />
observ<strong>at</strong>ions’, in F. Coarelli and H. P<strong>at</strong>terson (eds),<br />
Merc<strong>at</strong>or Placidissimus. <strong>The</strong> Tiber Valley in Antiquity.<br />
New Research in the Upper and Middle River Valley:<br />
499–532. <strong>Rome</strong>, Quasar.<br />
<strong>2008</strong> R. Cascino and M.T. Di Sarcina, ‘L’internal slipware<br />
nella media valle del Tevere’, in F. Coarelli and H.<br />
P<strong>at</strong>terson (eds), Merc<strong>at</strong>or Placidissimus. <strong>The</strong> Tiber<br />
Valley in Antiquity. New Research in the Upper and Middle<br />
River Valley: 559–85. <strong>Rome</strong>, Quasar.<br />
2009 S. Keay, ‘Le provincie ispaniche’, in F. Coarelli (ed.),<br />
Divus Vespasianus. Exhibition c<strong>at</strong>alogue. Milan, Electa.<br />
2009 S. Keay, G. Earl, S. Hay, S. Kay, J. Ogden and K.<br />
Strutt, ‘<strong>The</strong> role of integr<strong>at</strong>ed geophysical survey<br />
methods in the assessment of archaeological<br />
landscapes: the case of Portus’, in Archaeological<br />
Prospection 16: 1–13.<br />
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Andrew Wallace-Hadrill<br />
<strong>2008</strong> <strong>Rome</strong>’s Cultural Revolution, Cambridge, Cambridge<br />
University Press.<br />
2009 ‘La corte Flavia’ in F. Coarelli (ed.), Divus Vespasianus.<br />
Il bimillenario dei Flavi: 302–7. Milan, Electa.<br />
2009 ‘Case dipinte. Il sistema decor<strong>at</strong>ivo della casa romana<br />
come aspetto sociale’ in S. Ensoli, E. La Rocca and S.<br />
Tortorella (eds), Roma. La pittura di un impero, c<strong>at</strong>alogo<br />
della mostra, Roma, Scuderie del Quirinale, 24settembre<br />
2009–17 gennaio 2010. Milan, Skira.<br />
2009 ‘Courts and Classicists’ in <strong>The</strong> Court Historian, 14.1:<br />
69–74.<br />
Herculaneum Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion Project<br />
2009 S. Court and C. Biggi, ‘Young people in conserv<strong>at</strong>ion:<br />
intern<strong>at</strong>ional and local particip<strong>at</strong>ion in safeguarding<br />
the cultural heritage of Ercolano’, in Proceedings of the<br />
First Intern<strong>at</strong>ional Meeting of Youth in Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion of<br />
Cultural Heritage, <strong>Rome</strong>, 24–25 November <strong>2008</strong>: 1–8.<br />
<strong>Rome</strong>, IA-CS.<br />
2009 F. Piqué, G. Verri, C. Miliani, L. Cartechini and G.<br />
Torraca, ‘Indagini non-invasive sulle pitture del<br />
tablino della Casa del Bicentenario ad Ercolano’, in<br />
M<strong>at</strong>eriali e Strutture 9–10 (2007).
Core Staff<br />
S TAFF<br />
Director Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill,<br />
(until 1 October 2009) OBE MA DPhil FSA<br />
(from 1 October 2009) Professor Christopher Smith,<br />
MA, DPhil FSAS FRHistS FSA<br />
Research Professor in Archaeology Professor Simon Keay, BA PhD FSA<br />
Research Professor in Modern Studies Professor David Forgacs, BA PhD*<br />
Cary Fellow Robert Co<strong>at</strong>es-Stephens, BA PhD<br />
Molly Cotton Fellow Helen P<strong>at</strong>terson, BA PhD<br />
Assistant Director Susan Russell, MA PhD<br />
Assistant Director (Fine Arts) Jacopo Benci #<br />
Cur<strong>at</strong>or, Contemporary Arts Programme Cristiana Perrella, MA #*<br />
Librarian Valerie Scott, BA<br />
Deputy Librarian Be<strong>at</strong>rice Gelosia<br />
Library Assistants Francesca De Riso, BA #<br />
Francesca Deli<br />
Archivist Alessandra Giovenco, MA #<br />
Registrar & Public<strong>at</strong>ions Manager Gill Clark, BA PhD<br />
Director’s Assistant Eleanor Murkett, MA<br />
<strong>School</strong> Secretary Maria Pia Malvezzi<br />
Hostel Supervisor Geraldine Wellington<br />
Hon. Secretary, Subscribers Jo Wallace-Hadrill, MA #*<br />
Bursar Alvise Di Giulio, BA<br />
Domestic Bursar Ren<strong>at</strong>o Parente<br />
Accounts Clerk Isabella Gelosia #<br />
Maintenance Fulvio Astolfi<br />
Cleaners Don<strong>at</strong>ella Astolfi<br />
Alba Cor<strong>at</strong>ti<br />
Marisa Scarsella<br />
Cooks Giuseppe Parente<br />
Dharma Wijesiriwardana<br />
Technical Assistant & Waiter Giuseppe Pellegrino<br />
Waiters/Porters Antonio Palmieri<br />
P<strong>at</strong>hirannehalage Sompala #°<br />
Academic Project Staff<br />
Portus Project / Archaeological Survey<br />
Research Assistants Roberta Cascino, MA<br />
Elizabeth De Gaetano, MSc*<br />
Giles Richardson, MA*<br />
Cinzia Filippone, MA<br />
Stephen Kay, MSc<br />
Leonie Pett, MA*<br />
Gregory Tucker, MA°<br />
Jessica Ogden, MSc°<br />
Archaeological Illustr<strong>at</strong>or Sally Cann, BA<br />
Herculaneum Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion Project<br />
Project Manager Jane Thompson, MA DipArch<br />
Research and Outreach<br />
Co-ordin<strong>at</strong>or Sarah Court, MA<br />
Intern<strong>at</strong>ional Centre for the Study of Herculaneum<br />
Centre Manager Christian Biggi, MSt<br />
Website<br />
Research Assistant Raphael Helman, BArch<br />
Director’s Projects<br />
Research Assistant Christopher Siwicki, MA<br />
Assistant Director’s Projects (Humanities)<br />
Research Assistant Lucy Davis MA PhD<br />
Architecture Programme<br />
Cur<strong>at</strong>or Marina Engel, MA<br />
Contemporary Arts Programme<br />
Assistant Alessandra Troncone, BA*<br />
Fine Arts Programme<br />
Research Assistant Alessandra Giacinti, BFA<br />
________________<br />
# Part-time<br />
° Joined in <strong>2008</strong>–9<br />
* Left in <strong>2008</strong>–9<br />
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T RUSTEES’ REPORT<br />
Structure, Governance and<br />
Management<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> was founded in<br />
1901 and incorpor<strong>at</strong>ed by Royal Charter in<br />
1912 (Supplemental Charter, 1995). It is a<br />
registered charity, no. 314176. <strong>The</strong> governing<br />
body of the <strong>School</strong> comprises the President,<br />
HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady<br />
Ogilvy, KG, GCVO, and the Council. <strong>The</strong><br />
Director acts as the <strong>School</strong>’s Chief Executive,<br />
has the right of <strong>at</strong>tendance <strong>at</strong> all meetings of<br />
Council and its Subcommittees, and provides<br />
the secretari<strong>at</strong> from among the <strong>School</strong> staff.<br />
A list of all members of Council<br />
(Trustees) who have acted during the <strong>2008</strong>–9<br />
financial year appears below, together with<br />
details of the <strong>School</strong>’s financial advisers, and<br />
members of all Subcommittees; a full list of<br />
members of staff is given on page 39.<br />
Under the terms of the Royal Charter, two<br />
Council members are to be appointed by the<br />
President of the <strong>British</strong> Academy and the rest<br />
are appointed by the Council. No fewer than<br />
seven members must be selected from the<br />
fields of specialis<strong>at</strong>ion and work enshrined in<br />
the <strong>School</strong>’s objectives. Care is taken to<br />
secure a balance between specialists in the<br />
Fine Arts and the Humanities and generalists<br />
with legal, financial and fundraising skills.<br />
Members of Council serve for a term of five<br />
years, renewable for a maximum of a further<br />
five years. Members of Council are normally<br />
required to be under the age of 70 on<br />
election. <strong>The</strong>y are normally expected to be<br />
familiar with the <strong>School</strong> and its work on<br />
appointment, and are invited to visit the<br />
<strong>School</strong> in <strong>Rome</strong> and to meet staff both there<br />
and in London as part of an induction<br />
process. On appointment new trustees sign a<br />
model trustee declar<strong>at</strong>ion of eligibility and<br />
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will meet with the Chairman and Director.<br />
<strong>The</strong> welcome pack includes Charity<br />
Commission guidance, BSR policies,<br />
str<strong>at</strong>egies, bye-laws and management plan,<br />
and a copy of the <strong>School</strong>’s Charter. All<br />
trustees give of their time freely and no<br />
trustee remuner<strong>at</strong>ion was paid in the year.<br />
Details of trustee expenses are disclosed in<br />
note 11 to the accounts. Council normally<br />
meets three times a year.<br />
Council is advised on all m<strong>at</strong>ters of<br />
finance and personnel by the Finance and<br />
Personnel Subcommittee, which includes the<br />
Chair of Council, the Treasurer, and the<br />
Chairs of all Subcommittees, and meets<br />
normally four times a year.<br />
Grants are awarded by Council on the<br />
recommend<strong>at</strong>ion of two specialist advisory<br />
committees, the Faculty of Archaeology,<br />
History and Letters and the Faculty of the<br />
Fine Arts. Chairs of Faculties are appointed<br />
by Council, and must be members of<br />
Council. Members of Faculties are appointed<br />
for a five-year term by Council on the<br />
recommend<strong>at</strong>ion of the Faculties; they are<br />
chosen to represent the full range of specialist<br />
interests th<strong>at</strong> fall within the chartered<br />
objectives of the <strong>School</strong>. Fellowships,<br />
scholarships and awards are advertised once a<br />
year, and the faculties meet once annually to<br />
consider applic<strong>at</strong>ions, and to monitor reports<br />
by recipients of awards. <strong>The</strong> awards process<br />
is administered from the London office by<br />
the Registrar. Details of how to apply for<br />
awards together with relevant forms are<br />
available on the <strong>School</strong>’s website.<br />
Council is advised on all academic<br />
public<strong>at</strong>ions of the <strong>School</strong> by the Faculty of<br />
Archaeology, History and Letters, under the<br />
chairmanship of the Chair of Public<strong>at</strong>ions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chair is appointed by Council, and must<br />
be a member of Council.<br />
Council is advised on development and<br />
fundraising by the Chair of Development; the<br />
Chair is appointed by Council, and must be a<br />
member of Council.<br />
Risk Management<br />
Council has identified and reviewed the<br />
major risks to which the <strong>School</strong> is exposed<br />
and considers th<strong>at</strong>, to the extent th<strong>at</strong> it is<br />
able, it has systems in place to mitig<strong>at</strong>e those<br />
risks. It reviews its risk assessment on an<br />
annual basis.<br />
Objectives, Activities and Plans for<br />
the Future<br />
<strong>The</strong> objectives of the <strong>School</strong> are set out in<br />
the Supplemental Royal Charter (1995) as<br />
follows:<br />
(a) To promote the study in Italy of<br />
archaeology, history and letters, architecture,<br />
painting, sculpture, printmaking and<br />
other arts.<br />
(b) To establish and maintain in <strong>Rome</strong> a<br />
hostel for students <strong>at</strong>tending the <strong>School</strong><br />
who are studying arts, archaeology, history<br />
and letters and who are of <strong>British</strong> or<br />
Commonwealth birth, educ<strong>at</strong>ion or<br />
residence.<br />
(c) To establish and maintain studios and<br />
other buildings for the purposes of the<br />
<strong>School</strong> and their use by the students and<br />
other persons <strong>at</strong>tending the <strong>School</strong>.<br />
(d) To pursue archaeological and other<br />
researches and public<strong>at</strong>ions in the subject<br />
areas specified in (a) above.<br />
(e) To maintain in <strong>Rome</strong> a general<br />
library of the arts, archaeology, history and<br />
letters.
(f) To award scholarships, Exhibitions,<br />
Bursaries, Research Grants and other forms<br />
of assistance to those of <strong>British</strong> or<br />
Commonwealth birth, educ<strong>at</strong>ion or<br />
residence, engaged in the study of the arts,<br />
archaeology, history or letters.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s mission st<strong>at</strong>ement and<br />
summary st<strong>at</strong>ement of activities in pursuit of<br />
its objectives is given on the opening page of<br />
this <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>. <strong>The</strong> objectives for the<br />
year, achievements and plans for the future<br />
are set out in detail above, in the Director’s<br />
<strong>Report</strong> and in the reports on individual<br />
activities th<strong>at</strong> follow: these constitute an<br />
integral part of the formal Trustees’ <strong>Report</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trustees confirm th<strong>at</strong> they have referred<br />
to the guidance contained in the Charity<br />
Commission’s general guidance on public<br />
benefit when reviewing the <strong>School</strong>’s aims and<br />
objectives and in planning future activities.<br />
Public Benefit<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s charitable purposes, for the<br />
public benefit, concentr<strong>at</strong>e on the<br />
advancement of educ<strong>at</strong>ion and the<br />
advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or<br />
science. <strong>The</strong>se charitable purposes are linked<br />
to the objectives and activities described<br />
above and the mission st<strong>at</strong>ement and<br />
summary st<strong>at</strong>ement which can be found on<br />
page 1 of this <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>. Beneficiaries<br />
include, but are not limited to, students,<br />
scholars and visual artists and architects from<br />
Britain and the Commonwealth.<br />
C OUNCIL<br />
Professor G.W.W. Barker°<br />
Professor R. Burdett*<br />
Mr R. Cooper<br />
Professor S. Farthing<br />
Mr J. Gill°<br />
Mr M.N. Higgin (Hon. Treasurer)<br />
Mr T.D. Llewellyn (Vice-Chair)<br />
Ms J. Lomax*<br />
Professor M.J. Millett*<br />
Mr A.R. Nairne<br />
Dr J.H. Pellew<br />
Sir Ivor Roberts (Chair)<br />
Dr F. Salmon<br />
Mr B. Ward-Perkins<br />
Dr S. Walker<br />
Professor M. Warner<br />
Professor C. Wickham*<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chief Executive of the <strong>British</strong> Academy<br />
is invited to observe Council meetings.<br />
Director<br />
Professor A. Wallace-Hadrill<br />
(until 1 October 2009)<br />
Professor C. J. Smith<br />
(from 1 October 2009)<br />
Finance & Personnel Subcommittee<br />
Mr R. Cooper°<br />
Mr M.N. Higgin<br />
Mr J. Gill°<br />
Mr T.D. Llewellyn°<br />
Ms J. Lomax*<br />
Dr J.H. Pellew<br />
Sir Ivor Roberts (Chair)<br />
Dr F. Salmon<br />
Mr B. Ward-Perkins<br />
Charity Number: 314176<br />
T R U S T E E S ’ R E P O R T<br />
Auditors<br />
HLB Vantis Audit plc<br />
82 St John Street<br />
London EC1M 4JN<br />
Accountants<br />
Vantis Group Limited<br />
82 St John Street<br />
London EC1M 4JN<br />
Italian Financial Adviser<br />
Fragano & Partners<br />
Via A. Gallonio 8<br />
00161 <strong>Rome</strong><br />
Investment Managers and Advisers<br />
Cazenove Capital Management Limited<br />
12 Moorg<strong>at</strong>e<br />
London EC2R 6DA<br />
Bankers<br />
Lloyds TSB Bank Plc<br />
7 Pall Mall<br />
London SW1Y 5HU<br />
N<strong>at</strong>ional Westminster Bank Plc<br />
186 Brompton Road<br />
London SW3 1XJ<br />
Credito Emiliano<br />
Via del Tritone 97–8<br />
00187 <strong>Rome</strong><br />
San Paolo–IMI<br />
Agenzia 36, Via Civinini 50<br />
00144 <strong>Rome</strong><br />
___________________<br />
° Joined during <strong>2008</strong>–9<br />
* Left during <strong>2008</strong>–9<br />
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FINANCIAL REVIEW<br />
F INANCIAL S TATEMENTS<br />
for the year ended 31 March 2009<br />
<strong>The</strong> financial st<strong>at</strong>ements should be read in<br />
conjunction with the reports on pages 3 to 36.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s normal activity, disclosed under<br />
‘unrestricted funds’ in the st<strong>at</strong>ement of financial<br />
activities, ended the financial year with a deficit<br />
of £97,000 (<strong>2008</strong> — surplus of £ 30,000).<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> has been severely affected by the<br />
fall in the value of sterling and this in large part<br />
has led to the shortfall of incoming resources in<br />
the period. <strong>The</strong> Director in his report comments<br />
on the steps which have already been taken to<br />
reduce expenditure and the further steps in hand<br />
to review all aspects of the <strong>School</strong>’s oper<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
and activities.<br />
Restricted income includes the major grants<br />
from the Packard Humanities Institute,<br />
principally to fund conserv<strong>at</strong>ion work <strong>at</strong><br />
Herculaneum. <strong>The</strong> movements in restricted funds<br />
are disclosed in note 18.<br />
Council may invest in any securities approved<br />
by law for the investment of trust or charitable<br />
monies, or such other securities as the Council<br />
may from time to time approve. Council has<br />
appointed investment advisers to manage the<br />
<strong>School</strong>’s investment portfolio, with the objective<br />
of maintenance of income and growth. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>2008</strong>–9 financial year witnessed unprecedented<br />
turmoil in the financial markets. This has<br />
resulted in a significant reduction in the market<br />
value of the <strong>School</strong>’s investments during the<br />
period and unrealised losses of £436,000 being<br />
recorded <strong>at</strong> 31 March 2009. <strong>The</strong>re has been<br />
some recovery in market values post the<br />
<strong>School</strong>’s financial year end but considerable<br />
uncertainty remains regarding the outlook for the<br />
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global economy and this appears likely to result<br />
in continuing vol<strong>at</strong>ility in the financial markets.<br />
Unrestricted reserves decreased <strong>at</strong> year end<br />
by £488,000 to £1,923,000, mainly as a result of<br />
the valu<strong>at</strong>ion losses on investments. <strong>The</strong> level of<br />
unrestricted reserves is considered by Council to<br />
be adequ<strong>at</strong>e to meet the immedi<strong>at</strong>e needs of the<br />
<strong>School</strong>. <strong>The</strong> balance on restricted funds may only<br />
be used for the purposes described in note 18<br />
and is not available for the general purposes of<br />
the <strong>School</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong>’s reserves comprise general funds,<br />
design<strong>at</strong>ed funds, and restricted funds. Council’s<br />
policy is th<strong>at</strong>:<br />
- design<strong>at</strong>ed funds and restricted funds should<br />
be retained for the specific purposes for<br />
which they were set up<br />
- the level of general funds, after elimin<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
all unrealised revalu<strong>at</strong>ion surpluses, should<br />
not fall below three, nor exceed twelve<br />
months’ core running costs of the <strong>School</strong>.<br />
STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’<br />
RESPONSIBILITIES<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trustees are responsible for preparing the<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> and financial st<strong>at</strong>ements in<br />
accordance with applicable law and United<br />
Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trustees are required to prepare<br />
financial st<strong>at</strong>ements for each financial year<br />
which give a true and fair view of the st<strong>at</strong>e of<br />
the <strong>School</strong>’s affairs <strong>at</strong> the end of the financial<br />
year and of the <strong>School</strong>’s activities for the<br />
financial year. In preparing those financial<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ements, the Trustees are required to:<br />
- select suitable accounting policies and apply<br />
them consistently<br />
- make judgements and estim<strong>at</strong>es th<strong>at</strong> are<br />
reasonable and prudent<br />
- st<strong>at</strong>e whether applicable accounting<br />
standards and st<strong>at</strong>ements of recommended<br />
practice have been followed, subject to any<br />
departures disclosed and explained in the<br />
financial st<strong>at</strong>ements<br />
- prepare the financial st<strong>at</strong>ements on the going<br />
concern basis unless it is inappropri<strong>at</strong>e to<br />
presume th<strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong> will continue in<br />
oper<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trustees are responsible for:<br />
- keeping proper accounting records th<strong>at</strong><br />
disclose with reasonable accuracy <strong>at</strong> any time<br />
the financial position of the <strong>School</strong> and which<br />
enable them to ascertain the financial position<br />
of the <strong>School</strong> and to ensure th<strong>at</strong> the financial<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ements comply with Charities Act 1993<br />
- safeguarding the assets of the <strong>School</strong> and<br />
hence for taking reasonable steps for the<br />
prevention and detection of fraud and other<br />
irregularities<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trustees confirm th<strong>at</strong>, so far as they are<br />
aware, there is no relevant audit inform<strong>at</strong>ion of<br />
which the <strong>School</strong>’s auditors are unaware. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
have taken all the steps th<strong>at</strong> they ought to have<br />
taken as Trustees in order to make themselves<br />
aware of any relevant audit inform<strong>at</strong>ion and to<br />
establish th<strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong>’s auditors are aware of<br />
th<strong>at</strong> inform<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
By order of the Council (Trustees) 22 June 2009<br />
Signed on its behalf by<br />
M.N. Higgin — Honorary Treasurer
F INANCIAL S TATEMENTS<br />
for the year ended 31 March 2009<br />
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT<br />
TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH<br />
SCHOOL AT ROME<br />
We have audited the financial st<strong>at</strong>ements of<br />
the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> for the year ended<br />
31 March 2009 on pages 44 to 50. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
financial st<strong>at</strong>ements have been prepared under<br />
the accounting policies set out therein.<br />
This report is made solely to the charity’s<br />
Trustees, as a body, in accordance with<br />
Section 43 of the Charities Act 1993 and with<br />
regul<strong>at</strong>ions made under Section 44 of th<strong>at</strong> Act.<br />
Our audit work has been undertaken so th<strong>at</strong> we<br />
might st<strong>at</strong>e to the charity’s Trustees those<br />
m<strong>at</strong>ters we are required to st<strong>at</strong>e to them in an<br />
auditors’ report and for no other purpose. To<br />
the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not<br />
accept or assume responsibility to anyone<br />
other than the charity and the charity’s<br />
Trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this<br />
report, or for the opinions we have formed.<br />
RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES AND<br />
AUDITORS<br />
As described in the St<strong>at</strong>ement of Trustees’<br />
Responsibilities, the charity’s Trustees are<br />
responsible for the prepar<strong>at</strong>ion of the financial<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ements in accordance with applicable law<br />
and United Kingdom Accounting Standards<br />
(United Kingdom Generally Accepted<br />
Accounting Practice).<br />
We have been appointed as auditors under<br />
Section 43 of the Charities Act 1993 and report<br />
in accordance with regul<strong>at</strong>ions made under th<strong>at</strong><br />
Act. Our responsibility is to audit the financial<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ements in accordance with relevant legal<br />
and regul<strong>at</strong>ory requirements and Intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland).<br />
We report to you our opinion as to whether<br />
the financial st<strong>at</strong>ements give a true and fair<br />
view and are properly prepared in accordance<br />
with the Charities Act 1993. We also report to<br />
you if, in our opinion, the inform<strong>at</strong>ion given in<br />
the Trustees’ <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> is not consistent<br />
with those financial st<strong>at</strong>ements, if the charity<br />
has not kept sufficient accounting records, if the<br />
charity’s financial st<strong>at</strong>ements are not in<br />
agreement with these accounting records, or if<br />
we have not received all the inform<strong>at</strong>ion and<br />
explan<strong>at</strong>ions we require for our audit.<br />
We read other inform<strong>at</strong>ion contained in the<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> and consider whether it is<br />
consistent with the audited financial<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ements. We consider the implic<strong>at</strong>ions for<br />
our report if we become aware of any apparent<br />
misst<strong>at</strong>ement or m<strong>at</strong>erial inconsistencies with<br />
the financial st<strong>at</strong>ements. Our responsibilities<br />
do not extend to any other inform<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
BASIS OF AUDIT OPINION<br />
We conducted our audit in accordance with<br />
Intern<strong>at</strong>ional Standards on Auditing (UK and<br />
Ireland), issued by the Auditing Practices<br />
Board. An audit includes examin<strong>at</strong>ion, on a test<br />
basis, of evidence relevant to the amounts and<br />
disclosures in the financial st<strong>at</strong>ements. It also<br />
includes an assessment of the significant<br />
estim<strong>at</strong>es and judgements made by the<br />
Trustees in the prepar<strong>at</strong>ion of the financial<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ements and of whether the accounting<br />
policies are appropri<strong>at</strong>e to the charity’s<br />
circumstances, consistentIy applied and<br />
adequ<strong>at</strong>ely disclosed.<br />
We planned and performed our audit so as<br />
to obtain all the inform<strong>at</strong>ion and explan<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
which we considered necessary in order to<br />
provide us with sufficient evidence to give<br />
reasonable assurance th<strong>at</strong> the financial<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ements are free from m<strong>at</strong>erial misst<strong>at</strong>ement,<br />
whether caused by fraud or other<br />
irregularity or error. In forming our opinion we<br />
also evalu<strong>at</strong>ed the overall adequacy of the<br />
present<strong>at</strong>ion of inform<strong>at</strong>ion in the financial<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ements.<br />
OPINION<br />
In our opinion :<br />
- the financial st<strong>at</strong>ements give a true and fair<br />
view, in accordance with United Kingdom<br />
Generally Accepted Accounting Practice, of<br />
the st<strong>at</strong>e of the <strong>School</strong>'s affairs as <strong>at</strong> 31<br />
March 2009 and of its incoming resources<br />
and applic<strong>at</strong>ion of resources, for the year<br />
then ended; and<br />
- the financial st<strong>at</strong>ements have been properly<br />
prepared in accordance with the Charities<br />
Act 1993.<br />
HLB Vantis Audit plc<br />
Chartered Accountants 82 St John Street<br />
Registered Auditor London EC1M 4JN<br />
31 August 2009<br />
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S TATEMENT OF F INANCIAL A CTIVITIES<br />
for the year ended 31 March 2009<br />
Income and Expenditure Notes Total Funds Total Funds<br />
Unrestricted Restricted Year Ended Year Ended<br />
Funds Funds 31 March 2009 31 March <strong>2008</strong><br />
INCOMING RESOURCES:<br />
Incoming resources from gener<strong>at</strong>ed funds<br />
Voluntary income<br />
£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000<br />
Grant from the <strong>British</strong> Academy 1,065 - 1,065 1,038<br />
Other grants, don<strong>at</strong>ions and legacies 2 386 2,266 2,652 3,471<br />
Subscriptions<br />
Activities for gener<strong>at</strong>ing funds<br />
20 - 20 9<br />
Appeal income 3 - 9 9 14<br />
Other income 40 - 40 44<br />
Investment income<br />
Incoming resources from charitable activities<br />
4 64 58 122 92<br />
Public<strong>at</strong>ions 22 - 22 27<br />
Residential income 5 388 - 388 328<br />
Other income<br />
Other incoming resources<br />
56 - 56 185<br />
Exchange gains/ (losses) (22) 345 323 223<br />
TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES 2,019 2,678 4,697 5,431<br />
RESOURCES EXPENDED:<br />
Costs of gener<strong>at</strong>ing funds<br />
Costs of gener<strong>at</strong>ing voluntary income 6 - - - 2<br />
Charitable activities 7–9 2,061 1,834 3,895 3,539<br />
Governance costs 10 55 - 55 51<br />
TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED 2,116 1,834 3,950 3,592<br />
Net (outgoing)/ incoming resources before other recognised (97) 844 747 1,839<br />
gains and losses<br />
OTHER RECOGNISED GAINS AND LOSSES<br />
Realised (losses)/ gains on investments 13 - - - 24<br />
Unrealised (losses)/ gains on investments 13 (391) (45) (436) (149)<br />
Net movement in funds (488) 799 311 1,714<br />
Opening funds 2,411 2,416 4,827 3,113<br />
Total funds carried forward 1,923 3,215 5,138 4,827<br />
<strong>The</strong> notes on pages 46 to 50 form part of these financial st<strong>at</strong>ements.<br />
<strong>The</strong> st<strong>at</strong>ement of financial activities is prepared on the basis th<strong>at</strong> all activities are continuing.<br />
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B ALANCE SHEET<br />
as <strong>at</strong> 31 March 2009<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
Notes £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000<br />
Fixed Assets<br />
Tangible assets 12 57 75<br />
Heritage assets 12 500 500<br />
Investments — unrestricted 1,534 1,908<br />
Investments — restricted 140 240<br />
Total investments 13 1,674 2,148<br />
Total Fixed Assets 2,231 2,723<br />
Current Assets<br />
Debtors 14 77 67<br />
Cash <strong>at</strong> bank and in hand — unrestricted 327 308<br />
Cash <strong>at</strong> bank and in hand — restricted 3,663 2,323<br />
Total cash <strong>at</strong> bank and in hand 3,990 2,631<br />
4,067 2,698<br />
Creditors — unrestricted (275) (215)<br />
Creditors — restricted (588) (147)<br />
Creditors: total amounts falling due within one year 15 (863) (362)<br />
Net Current Assets 3,204 2,336<br />
Total Assets less Current Liabilities<br />
Less:<br />
5,435 5,059<br />
Provisions for liabilities and charges 16 (297) (232)<br />
Net Assets 5,138 4,827<br />
Represented by:<br />
Funds<br />
Unrestricted 17 1,923 2,411<br />
Restricted 18 3,215 2,416<br />
Total Charity Funds 5,138 4,827<br />
Approved by the Council on 22 June 2009 and signed on its behalf by<br />
Sir Ivor Roberts — Chairman<br />
M.N. Higgin — Honorary Treasurer<br />
<strong>The</strong> notes on pages 46 to 50 form part of these financial st<strong>at</strong>ements.<br />
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N OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS<br />
for the year ended 31 March 2009<br />
1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES<br />
Basis of Prepar<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
<strong>The</strong> financial st<strong>at</strong>ements have been prepared in accordance with the St<strong>at</strong>ement of<br />
Recommended Practice ‘Accounting and <strong>Report</strong>ing by Charities’ (SORP 2005),<br />
applicable accounting standards and the Charities Act 1993. <strong>The</strong> accounts have<br />
been prepared on a going concern basis, under the historical cost convention as<br />
modified by the revalu<strong>at</strong>ion of certain fixed assets and using the following policies.<br />
a) Incoming Resources<br />
All income is gross without deduction for rel<strong>at</strong>ed expenditure.<br />
Legacies, including payments on account of legacies, are recognised in the<br />
accounts when there is reasonable certainty of receipt and the amount can be<br />
ascertained. Grants for general support, research, scholarships or fixed assets<br />
are recognised on a receivable basis and are deferred only when the donor has<br />
imposed pre-conditions on the use of the grant.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> recognises the intangible value of accommod<strong>at</strong>ion provided to<br />
recipients of awards and scholarships as a credit to residential income and a<br />
charge to grants and scholarships.<br />
b) Resources Expended<br />
Liabilities for expenditure are recognised in accordance with the accruals concept.<br />
Grants payable for research and scholarship fall due only when such<br />
research is undertaken or upon <strong>at</strong>tendance <strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong> and accordingly are<br />
accounted for over the period of research or <strong>at</strong>tendance. More details on the<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ure of awards are shown in the <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>.<br />
Expenditure for research and academic studies, residential research<br />
programmes, library and public<strong>at</strong>ions disclosed within charitable activities<br />
includes departmental salaries. A proportion of salary costs is alloc<strong>at</strong>ed to<br />
governance costs based on the approxim<strong>at</strong>e time expended on such activities.<br />
Support costs are alloc<strong>at</strong>ed in full to expenditure incurred on charitable<br />
activities. <strong>The</strong> majority of costs are alloc<strong>at</strong>ed on a pro-r<strong>at</strong>ed basis over the<br />
different activities undertaken by the <strong>School</strong>, excluding activities which are<br />
financed by restricted funds. Support costs which are rel<strong>at</strong>ed to a specific<br />
activity are alloc<strong>at</strong>ed to th<strong>at</strong> activity in full. <strong>The</strong> Trustees consider this to be<br />
the most appropri<strong>at</strong>e method of alloc<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
c) Pensions<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> contributes to the UK Universities Superannu<strong>at</strong>ion Scheme for<br />
certain of its employees. <strong>The</strong> Universities Superannu<strong>at</strong>ion Scheme is a<br />
defined benefit scheme which is externally funded. <strong>The</strong> assets of the scheme<br />
are held in a separ<strong>at</strong>e trustee-administered fund. It is not possible to identify<br />
each institution’s share of the underlying assets and liabilities of the scheme<br />
and hence contributions to the scheme are accounted for as if it were a<br />
defined contribution scheme in accordance with FRS 17. <strong>The</strong> charge<br />
recognised within the St<strong>at</strong>ement of Financial Activities is equal to the<br />
contributions payable to the scheme for the year.<br />
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d) Staff Termin<strong>at</strong>ion Fund<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> provides for deferred pay which is due to Italian employees when<br />
they leave the employment of the <strong>School</strong>. <strong>The</strong> amount payable is calcul<strong>at</strong>ed in<br />
accordance with existing Italian legal requirements and the Italian n<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
labour contract. <strong>The</strong> charge is recognised within the St<strong>at</strong>ement of Financial<br />
Activities.<br />
e) Fixed Assets<br />
Fixed assets other than library books are disclosed <strong>at</strong> cost. Depreci<strong>at</strong>ion is<br />
provided by the <strong>School</strong> to write off the cost less the estim<strong>at</strong>ed residual value<br />
of tangible fixed assets over their useful economic lives as follows:<br />
Computers 25% straight line<br />
Motor vehicles 25% straight line<br />
Office equipment 20% straight line<br />
Furniture and fittings 20% straight line<br />
<strong>The</strong> Library is considered to be a heritage asset and is st<strong>at</strong>ed in the balance<br />
sheet <strong>at</strong> an <strong>at</strong>tributed value based on its insured value. <strong>The</strong> annual cost of<br />
additions to the Library, which is equivalent to an annual depreci<strong>at</strong>ion r<strong>at</strong>e of<br />
approxim<strong>at</strong>ely 10% straight line, is charged to the St<strong>at</strong>ement of Financial<br />
Activities to represent the notional write down in the useful economic life of<br />
the Library.<br />
f) Investments<br />
Investments are carried <strong>at</strong> market value with any unrealised gains and losses<br />
being included in the St<strong>at</strong>ement of Financial Activities alloc<strong>at</strong>ed between<br />
restricted and unrestricted funds.<br />
<strong>The</strong> proportion of investment income rel<strong>at</strong>ing to restricted funds is retained<br />
for use within restricted funds.<br />
g) Foreign Currency<br />
Foreign currency conversion for the balance sheet is <strong>at</strong> year-end r<strong>at</strong>es,<br />
except where the balances are covered by forward contracts to meet known<br />
future liabilities, when the contract r<strong>at</strong>e is used. During the year the<br />
transl<strong>at</strong>ion is <strong>at</strong> average r<strong>at</strong>es on a month to month basis, or forward<br />
contract r<strong>at</strong>e as applicable. Exchange gains or losses are tre<strong>at</strong>ed as other<br />
income or expenditure in the St<strong>at</strong>ement of Financial Activities where they<br />
cannot be directly rel<strong>at</strong>ed to individual activities. Where exchange gains or<br />
losses can be directly rel<strong>at</strong>ed to individual design<strong>at</strong>ed or restricted projects<br />
the gain or loss is <strong>at</strong>tributed to the relevant fund.<br />
h) Cash Flow St<strong>at</strong>ement<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> is exempted by FRS 1 (revised) from preparing a cash flow<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ement.<br />
i) Funds<br />
Details of the funds of the <strong>School</strong>, how they have arisen and their use are<br />
given in notes 17 and 18.
2. OTHER GRANTS, DONATIONS AND LEGACIES<br />
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total<br />
Funds Funds 2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000<br />
Other grants 384 2,266 2,650 3,435<br />
Don<strong>at</strong>ions and legacies 2 - 2 36<br />
3. APPEAL INCOME<br />
N OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS<br />
for the year ended 31 March 2009<br />
386 2,266 2,652 3,471<br />
Appeal income primarily rel<strong>at</strong>es to funds raised to hold an exhibition of the<br />
<strong>School</strong>’s archive photographs in London.<br />
4. INVESTMENT INCOME<br />
Total Total<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Dividends — UK equities 66 49<br />
Interest — UK fixed interest securities 7 15<br />
Interest on cash deposits 49 28<br />
5. RESIDENTIAL INCOME<br />
122 92<br />
Total Total<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Residential income includes the intangible<br />
value of accommod<strong>at</strong>ion provided to<br />
recipients of grants and scholarships of: 157 140<br />
6. COSTS OF GENERATING FUNDS<br />
Costs of gener<strong>at</strong>ing funds comprise sundry expenses incurred in raising funds.<br />
7. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES<br />
Expenditure on charitable activities is made up as follows:<br />
Direct Support Total Total<br />
Expenses Costs 2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000<br />
Research and academic salaries 469 192 661 754<br />
Residential research programmes 665 256 921 708<br />
Research projects 78 25 103 141<br />
Library 353 139 492 396<br />
Public<strong>at</strong>ions 8 3 11 15<br />
Herculaneum Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion Project 1,657 - 1,657 1,407<br />
Fasti on line project 50 - 50 118<br />
3,280 615 3,895 3,539<br />
Included within charitable expenditure is the following restricted expenditure:<br />
Total Total<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Herculaneum Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion Project 1,657 1,407<br />
Fasti on line project 50 118<br />
Scholarships (within residential research programmes) 15 6<br />
Getty Library project (within Library costs) 57 17<br />
Library appeal fund (within Library costs) 5 11<br />
PHI Library project (within Library costs) 27 8<br />
Murray project (within Library costs)<br />
<strong>British</strong> Academy Grant — collabor<strong>at</strong>ive project<br />
8 10<br />
(within residential research programmes) 15 5<br />
1,834 1,582<br />
8. GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS<br />
Charitable activities include the cost of grants and scholarships awarded. Grants<br />
and scholarships comprise £368,000 (<strong>2008</strong> — £329,000) awarded to 55 (<strong>2008</strong> —<br />
57) individuals. <strong>The</strong>re were no grants payable to Institutions (<strong>2008</strong> — none).<br />
Total Total<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
No. £’000 No. £’000<br />
Grants paid:<br />
Research 15 78 17 74<br />
Scholarships 40 133 40 115<br />
Intangible value of accommod<strong>at</strong>ion 157 140<br />
55 368 57 329<br />
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9. SUPPORT COSTS<br />
N OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS<br />
for the year ended 31 March 2009<br />
Support costs, which are alloc<strong>at</strong>ed to charitable activities, are as follows:<br />
Total Total<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Support staff salaries 249 232<br />
Building maintenance and utilities costs 177 96<br />
IT and equipment maintenance 50 56<br />
Depreci<strong>at</strong>ion 45 48<br />
Travel expenses 22 11<br />
Consultants’ fees 23 42<br />
Other 49 37<br />
615 522<br />
All support costs rel<strong>at</strong>e to unrestricted funds.<br />
10. GOVERNANCE COSTS<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Salaries and pensions 16 15<br />
Auditors’ remuner<strong>at</strong>ion 12 11<br />
Accountancy fees 3 3<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 8 7<br />
Council and committee meetings 16 15<br />
55 51<br />
All governance expenditure rel<strong>at</strong>es to unrestricted funds.<br />
11. TRUSTEES AND EMPLOYEES<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
Aggreg<strong>at</strong>e staff costs comprise:<br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Wages and salaries 650 584<br />
Taxes, social security and rel<strong>at</strong>ed costs 296 279<br />
Pensions 16 14<br />
Staff termin<strong>at</strong>ion pay (note 16) 37 38<br />
999 915<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> particip<strong>at</strong>es in the Universities Superannu<strong>at</strong>ion Scheme. <strong>The</strong> l<strong>at</strong>est actuarial<br />
valu<strong>at</strong>ion of the scheme was <strong>at</strong> 31 March <strong>2008</strong>. At the valu<strong>at</strong>ion d<strong>at</strong>e, the assets of the<br />
scheme were 71% of the accrued liabilities based on projected pensionable salaries and<br />
the value of the past service deficit was £11,776 million. This is based on a funding<br />
target of £40,619 million and the actuarial value of assets of £28,843 million. <strong>The</strong><br />
institution contribution r<strong>at</strong>e will be increased from 14% to 16% of salaries from 1<br />
October 2009.<br />
Surpluses or deficits which arise <strong>at</strong> future valu<strong>at</strong>ions may impact on the <strong>School</strong>’s future<br />
contribution commitment. <strong>The</strong> total UK pension cost for the <strong>School</strong> was £15,881 (<strong>2008</strong> —<br />
£14,016). <strong>The</strong> contribution to the provision of staff termin<strong>at</strong>ion pay for the year was £37,201<br />
(<strong>2008</strong> — £38,124). One employee earned more than £60,000 per annum (<strong>2008</strong> — none).<br />
<strong>The</strong> average number of employees 2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
analysed by function was as follows: No No<br />
Academic programmes 7 7<br />
Residential research programmes 7 8<br />
Public<strong>at</strong>ions 1 2<br />
Library 5 5<br />
Support 5 5<br />
Management and administr<strong>at</strong>ion of the charity 1 1<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trustees of the <strong>School</strong> received no remuner<strong>at</strong>ion in the year under review<br />
(<strong>2008</strong> — £nil). An aggreg<strong>at</strong>e of £3,149 (<strong>2008</strong> — £3,338) was reimbursed to<br />
nine (<strong>2008</strong> — eight) Trustees in respect of travel charges.<br />
12. FIXED ASSETS<br />
Library Computer Office Furniture<br />
Books Equipment Equipment & Fittings Vehicles Total<br />
£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000<br />
Cost or Valu<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Brought forward 500 326 203 125 61 1,215<br />
Additions - 10 16 - - 26<br />
Carried forward 500 336 219 125 61 1,241<br />
Depreci<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Brought forward - 302 183 97 58 640<br />
Charge for year - 14 17 11 2 44<br />
Carried forward - 316 200 108 60 684<br />
Net Book Value<br />
At 31 March 2009 500 20 19 17 1 557<br />
At 31 March <strong>2008</strong> 500 24 20 28 3 575
N OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS<br />
for the year ended 31 March 2009<br />
Fixed assets held are all for direct charitable use.<br />
Under an agreement d<strong>at</strong>ed 25 April 1912 between the Comune di Roma and the<br />
<strong>British</strong> Ambassador <strong>at</strong> th<strong>at</strong> time, the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> was granted, for an annual<br />
rental of one Italian lira, the use in perpetuity of the land on which the <strong>School</strong> is built,<br />
provided th<strong>at</strong> the land is used exclusively for study and research in the humanities,<br />
archaeology and fine arts. Should the land not be used for such purposes, it has to be<br />
surrendered to the Comune without any compens<strong>at</strong>ion for its cost or value. On this basis,<br />
no value is ascribed to the <strong>School</strong> building in the accounts or to any additions or<br />
improvements to the building. Such expenditure is written off to the St<strong>at</strong>ement of<br />
Financial Activities in the year of expenditure.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trustees consider th<strong>at</strong> it is not possible to ascribe a meaningful value to the<br />
intangible benefit of the use of the land on which the <strong>School</strong> is built.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trustees consider the Library of books, papers, manuscripts and pictures to be a<br />
heritage asset within the definition of SORP 2005. Many of the contents are considered<br />
to be irreplaceable. On this basis, the Trustees have ascribed the insured value of the<br />
Library as its value to the <strong>School</strong>. <strong>The</strong> Library's holdings consist of approxim<strong>at</strong>ely 60,000<br />
volumes, of which 50,000 are monographs and 10,000 periodicals. 600 current<br />
periodicals are taken. Specialisms include: Mediterranean archaeology, prehistory,<br />
ancient history and texts, the history of ancient religions, ecclesiastical and medieval<br />
history, Italian topography, history of art and architectural history, and the writings of<br />
travellers in Italy. <strong>The</strong> open-shelf reference Library provides the bibliographic resources<br />
and services necessary to support the research activities of the <strong>School</strong>. <strong>The</strong> Library aims<br />
to complement UK academic libraries through its holdings of local Italian public<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
and periodicals, and welcomes all scholars, undergradu<strong>at</strong>es and gradu<strong>at</strong>es studying in<br />
any field relevant to its collections.<br />
13. INVESTMENTS<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
UK quoted investments 1,481 1,917<br />
Cash on deposit 193 231<br />
1,674 2,148<br />
Historical cost <strong>at</strong> 31 March:<br />
Quoted investments 1,725 1,725<br />
<strong>The</strong> following investments individually comprise the investments held:<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Cazenove Unit Trust Management:<br />
Growth Trust for Charities 419 610<br />
Income Trust for Charities 286 283<br />
Absolute Return Trust for Charities 312 366<br />
Equity Income Trust for Charities 372 535<br />
European Fund 23 28<br />
Property Trust 69 95<br />
<strong>The</strong> movement on quoted investments comprises:<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Market value <strong>at</strong> 1 April 1,917 2,102<br />
Additions <strong>at</strong> cost - 18<br />
Disposal proceeds - (78)<br />
1,917 2,042<br />
Realised gains on disposals - 24<br />
Unrealised (losses)/gains (436) (149)<br />
Market value <strong>at</strong> 31 March 1,481 1,917<br />
14. DEBTORS<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Other debtors and prepayments 77 67<br />
15. CREDITORS: amounts falling due within one year<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Other creditors and accruals 863 362<br />
863 362<br />
16. PROVISIONS<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Provision for staff termin<strong>at</strong>ion pay 297 232<br />
This liability represents deferred pay due to employees <strong>at</strong> 31 March 2009,<br />
payable when they leave the <strong>School</strong>. <strong>The</strong> amount payable is calcul<strong>at</strong>ed in<br />
accordance with existing Italian legal requirements and the Italian n<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
labour contract.<br />
<strong>The</strong> movements in the provision for the year are as follows:<br />
2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Balance <strong>at</strong> 1 April 232 167<br />
Increase in provision for the year 37 38<br />
Exchange loss 28 27<br />
Balance <strong>at</strong> 31 March 297 232<br />
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N OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS<br />
for the year ended 31 March 2009<br />
17. UNRESTRICTED FUNDS<br />
General Capital Design<strong>at</strong>ed Total Total<br />
Funds Fund Funds 2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000<br />
At 1 April 860 278 1,273 2,411 2,493<br />
Net (outgoing)/ incoming<br />
resources (94) - (3) (97) 30<br />
Realised gains<br />
on investments - - - - 22<br />
Unrealised (losses)/ gains<br />
on investments (138) - (253) (391) (134)<br />
At 31 March 628 278 1,017 1,923 2,411<br />
<strong>The</strong> design<strong>at</strong>ed funds are funds set aside by Council for various grants for<br />
research and scholarship and arise from unrestricted bequests.<br />
18. RESTRICTED FUNDS<br />
<strong>British</strong> Academy Getty Cary Appeal PHI Other Total Total<br />
Fund Fund Fund Fund Funds Funds 2009 <strong>2008</strong><br />
£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000<br />
At 1 April<br />
Total incoming<br />
15 98 154 32 2,020 97 2,416 620<br />
resources - - 6 9 2,656 7 2,678 3,391<br />
Total resources<br />
expended (15) (57) (15) (5) (1,734) (8) (1,834) ( 1,582)<br />
Realised gains on<br />
investments - - - - - - - 2<br />
Unrealised (losses)/ gains on<br />
investments - - (37) - - (8) (45) (15)<br />
At 31 March - 41 108 36 2,942 88 3,215 2,416<br />
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<strong>The</strong> bequest establishing the Cary Fund was restricted and Council determined in<br />
November 1995 th<strong>at</strong> it should be used to cre<strong>at</strong>e a fellowship to enable an<br />
academic to undertake research in <strong>Rome</strong> and to be involved with a <strong>School</strong><br />
postgradu<strong>at</strong>e taught course.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Funds represent grants given by the<br />
Institute to finance specific projects, principally in Herculaneum.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>British</strong> Academy fund rel<strong>at</strong>ed to funding for a collabor<strong>at</strong>ive project with the<br />
Society for Libyan Studies to fund a series of Punic Mediterranean workshops.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Getty Fund represents grants given by <strong>The</strong> Getty Found<strong>at</strong>ion for the<br />
arrangement and description of the J.B. Ward-Perkins photographic collection.<br />
19. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS<br />
Unrestricted Restricted<br />
Funds Funds Total<br />
£’000<br />
Fund balances <strong>at</strong> 31 March 2009 are represented by:<br />
£’000 £’000<br />
Tangible fixed assets 557 - 557<br />
Investments 1,534 140 1,674<br />
Cash 327 3,663 3,990<br />
Other current assets 77 - 77<br />
Current liabilities (275) (588) (863)<br />
Long-term liabilities (297) - (297)<br />
Total net assets 1,923 3,215 5,138<br />
20. COMMITMENTS<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> has awarded grants and scholarships totalling £89,395 to be paid<br />
in 2009–10 (<strong>2008</strong>–9 — £85,210). No provision has been made for these grants<br />
as the conditions <strong>at</strong>taching to the grants had not been met <strong>at</strong> 31 March 2009.<br />
21. CONTROLLING PARTY<br />
<strong>The</strong> activities of the <strong>School</strong> are controlled by Council. <strong>The</strong>re is no ultim<strong>at</strong>e<br />
controlling party of the <strong>School</strong>.
S UBCOMMITTEES AND H ONORARY F ELLOWS<br />
Faculty of the Fine Arts<br />
Ms E. Bonham Carter<br />
Ms S. Boyce OBE°<br />
Mr W. Cobbing°<br />
Ms J. Farrer<br />
Mr J. Fobert<br />
Ms A. Gallagher<br />
Mr J. Gill (Chair from January 2009)<br />
Ms C. Hawley*<br />
Professor C. Hopkins<br />
Ms T. Kov<strong>at</strong>s°<br />
Ms J. Lomax OBE(Chair to December <strong>2008</strong>)*<br />
Ms V. Lovell<br />
Mr D. Masi<br />
Professor R. Tavernor°<br />
Ms A. Turnbull*<br />
Dr A. Williamson<br />
Mr A. Wilson<br />
Faculty of Archaeology, History and<br />
Letters<br />
Dr C. Burdett*<br />
Dr E. Isayev<br />
Dr V. Izzet<br />
Dr R. Jackson<br />
Professor R. McKitterick<br />
Professor M. Millett (Chair of Archaeology)<br />
Professor S. Milner<br />
Dr J. Crawley Quinn<br />
Professor L. Riall<br />
Dr C. Richardson<br />
Dr C. Robertson<br />
Dr F. Salmon (Chair)<br />
Dr A. Sennis<br />
Dr R. Ske<strong>at</strong>es<br />
Mr B. Ward-Perkins (Chair of Public<strong>at</strong>ions)<br />
Professor R. Whitehouse*<br />
Professor A. Wilson<br />
Mr M. Wilson Jones<br />
___________________<br />
° Joined during <strong>2008</strong>–9<br />
* Left during <strong>2008</strong>–9<br />
HONORARY FELLOWS<br />
Professor Girolamo Arnaldi<br />
Professor Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri<br />
Dr Angelo Bottini<br />
Mr Peter Brown CBE<br />
Professor Andrea Carandini<br />
Mr Roderick Cavaliero<br />
Professor Filippo Coarelli<br />
Professor Lucos Cozza<br />
Professor Francesco D’Andria<br />
Professor Stefano De Caro<br />
Professor Paolo Delogu<br />
Lady Egerton OBE<br />
Professor Emanuela Fabbricotti<br />
Mr Robert Jackson<br />
Professor Anna Gallina Zevi<br />
Professor Pietro Giovanni Guzzo<br />
Professor Adriano La Regina<br />
Professor Eugenio La Rocca<br />
Dr Tersilio Leggio<br />
Professor David Marshall<br />
Professor Fergus Millar<br />
Avv. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo<br />
Professor John Osborne<br />
Dr David Woodley Packard<br />
Professor Silvio Panciera<br />
Professor Paola Pelag<strong>at</strong>ti<br />
Dr Anna Maria Reggiani<br />
Professor Geoffrey Rickman<br />
Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover KG<br />
Mr Michael Stillwell<br />
Professor Mario Torelli<br />
Professor Maria Luisa Veloccia Rinaldi<br />
Professor Fausto Zevi<br />
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Illustr<strong>at</strong>ion Acknowledgements<br />
Cover: Neo-Attic relief in house in south-west<br />
corner of Herculaneum, photograph by Mimmo<br />
Capone and courtesy of the Soprintendenza<br />
Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei<br />
Page 5 Photograph by David Spero<br />
Pages 6–7 Photographs by Rebecca Madgin and<br />
Jacopo Benci<br />
Page 9 Photograph courtesy of Liz Rideal<br />
Page 10 Photograph by Sophie Wallace-Hadrill<br />
Pages 12–3 Photographs by Andrew Wallace-<br />
Hadrill and Sosandra<br />
Pages 17–8 Photographs by David Spero and<br />
Robert Co<strong>at</strong>es-Stephens<br />
Pages 23, 25 Photographs by Stephen Kay and<br />
Simon Keay/Portus project, and courtesy of the<br />
Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia;<br />
image by Jessica Odgen<br />
Pages 29–31 Photographs by David Spero, Jacopo<br />
Benci, Pierre Gendron, Dragica Janketic Carlin,<br />
Ruth Murray, C<strong>at</strong>h Keay, Fernando Maquieira and<br />
Penelope Cain<br />
Page 33 Photograph by Claudia Gianvenuti<br />
Page 35 Photograph in BSR Archive collection<br />
Graphic Design Silvia Stucky<br />
Printing Società Tipografica Romana srl, <strong>Rome</strong><br />
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Subscribers are the base of the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong>’s support system.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir support remains crucial, not only financially, but because they are<br />
the group with which the <strong>School</strong> can communic<strong>at</strong>e most swiftly, and to<br />
which it can respond in order best to serve its constituency.<br />
Benefits<br />
Individual Subscribers (£30)<br />
■ receive our <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>, and ‘Notes from <strong>Rome</strong>’ or Newsletter<br />
■ receive discounts on BSR public<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
■ can, subject to availability, reserve accommod<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong><br />
■ can request assistance in securing permissions to visit sites<br />
■ can <strong>at</strong>tend Subscriber events in the UK or <strong>Rome</strong>.<br />
Full Individual Subscribers (£50)<br />
in addition receive our annual research journal, Papers of the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong><br />
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Those who wish to contribute more generously may do so as Friends (min.<br />
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■ receive accommod<strong>at</strong>ion discounts for staff and students<br />
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■ can, subject to availability, make residential bookings for groups.<br />
Subscription enquiries may be sent to the Subscriptions Secretary <strong>at</strong> the<br />
BSR. A subscription form is enclosed with this <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>.<br />
DONATIONS<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> welcomes don<strong>at</strong>ions to its Appeal, which aims primarily to<br />
increase the endowment for awards to fellows and scholars. Your continued<br />
support, if possible taking advantage of Gift Aid (see below), is vital.<br />
Gift Aid<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> can recover tax on almost any gift made to it by a UK<br />
taxpayer. You only need to fill in a Gift Aid Declar<strong>at</strong>ion once for us to<br />
benefit on all your future subscriptions and don<strong>at</strong>ions. A suitable form is<br />
enclosed with this <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>.<br />
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Gifts from U.S. Residents<br />
If you wish to make a gift and take a U.S. income tax deduction, you may<br />
make a don<strong>at</strong>ion to the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong>s & Universities Found<strong>at</strong>ion Inc.<br />
(BSUF), which enables U.S. residents to support <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong>s &<br />
Universities in a tax efficient manner. <strong>The</strong> BSUF is a charitable organis<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
recognised by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service under Section 501 (c) (3) of<br />
their Codes. You should express “a preference for the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong><br />
<strong>Rome</strong>, Italy” when making a gift, but cheques should be made payable to<br />
BSUF. Such preferences are respected by BSUF but all grants are made <strong>at</strong> its<br />
sole discretion, as required by the IRS. Don<strong>at</strong>ions and enquiries should be<br />
sent to: <strong>The</strong> Secretary, BSUF, 575 Madison Avenue, Suite 1006, New York,<br />
NY 10022-2511, USA; tel. (212) 662-5576; email info@bsuf.org. Please send<br />
with your don<strong>at</strong>ion a copy of the BSUF’s Donor Trasmittal Form which can<br />
be downloaded from www.bsuf.org. Please also send a copy of this form to<br />
the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> so th<strong>at</strong> we are aware of your gift and th<strong>at</strong> the BSR<br />
has been nomin<strong>at</strong>ed for a possible BSUF grant.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong>s & Universities Found<strong>at</strong>ion Inc. has formally<br />
approved <strong>The</strong> <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> as a full member.<br />
Legacies<br />
If you have profited from and enjoyed your time <strong>at</strong> the <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong>, you<br />
might wish to consider supporting future scholars by including it in your<br />
will. A legacy will help to ensure th<strong>at</strong> others are able to benefit from the<br />
enriching experience th<strong>at</strong> the <strong>School</strong> provides.<br />
As a Registered Charity the <strong>School</strong> pays no tax on gifts of money or<br />
property received through a legacy. In addition, a legacy to the <strong>School</strong> may<br />
reduce the inheritance tax payable on your est<strong>at</strong>e.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>School</strong> recommends th<strong>at</strong> you consult your legal adviser, but it may be<br />
helpful to set out some of the various forms of legacy you might wish to consider:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pecuniary Legacy: a simple form of legacy giving a specified<br />
amount of money to a named individual or organis<strong>at</strong>ion;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Residuary Legacy: the bequest of all or part of the net residue of<br />
your est<strong>at</strong>e after all pecuniary legacies, debts, fees and other charges have<br />
been met;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Conditional Legacy: ideal for those who would not otherwise<br />
consider a bequest. It provides an altern<strong>at</strong>ive to your est<strong>at</strong>e going to the<br />
Crown should none of your named dependents or beneficiaries survive you.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are other forms of legacy on which your solicitor can advise you.<br />
Appeal enquiries, don<strong>at</strong>ions and legacy enquiries to: <strong>The</strong> Director,<br />
Via Gramsci 61, 00197 <strong>Rome</strong>, Italy;<br />
or email director@bsrome.it<br />
Cheques should be made payable to ‘<strong>The</strong> <strong>British</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Rome</strong>’.