Annual Report 2007-8 - The British School at Rome

T HE B RITISH S CHOOL AT R OMEPatron: HM The QueenPresident: HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady Ogilvy, KG, GCVOThe mission of the British School at Rome is to promote knowledge of and deep engagement with all aspects of the art,history and culture of Italy by scholars and fine artists from Britain and the Commonwealth, and to foster international andinterdisciplinary exchange.The BSR aims to support:■ residential awards for visual artists and architects■ residential awards for research in the archaeology, history, art history, society and culture of Italy■ exhibitions, especially in contemporary art■ an interdisciplinary programme of lectures and conferences■ research projects, including archaeological fieldwork■ a specialist research library■ a programme of publications■ short specialist taught courses.T HE B RITISH S CHOOL AT R OMEVia Gramsci 61, 00197 Rome, ItalyTel. +39 06 3264939 Fax +39 06 3221201E-mail info@bsrome.itwww.bsr.ac.ukBSR London Office (for scholarship and publications enquiries):The BSR at The British Academy10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH, UKTel. +44 (0)20 79695202 Fax +44 (0)20 79695401E-mail bsr@britac.ac.ukRegistered Charity no. 3141761

A NNUAL R EPORT 2007–2008ReportsChairman’s Foreword 3Director’s Report 4Herculaneum Conservation Project 11Development 14Humanities Awards 15Humanities Activities 16Events 19Archaeology 21Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters 26Fine Arts Awards 27Fine Arts Scholars’ Activities 27Faculty of the Fine Arts 31Contemporary Arts Programme 32Publications 34Library and Archive 35AppendicesPublications and Exhibitions by Staff 37Staff 39Trustees’ Report 40Financial Statements 42Subcommittees and Honorary Fellows 51BSR Publications in Print 52Subscribers 54How to Support the British School at Rome 562

C HAIRMAN’ S F OREWORDIt’s a particular pleasure to re-engage with the BritishSchool at Rome as the incoming Chairman. It feelsalmost like an institutional tradition, as one of mypredecessors as President of Trinity College, Oxford —Henry Pelham, Professor of Ancient History — was notonly the first Chairman of the BSR, just over a hundredyears ago, but the prime mover behind its launch. My timeas Ambassador in Rome gave me a very comprehensiveand pleasurable introduction to the BSR’s work but seeingit from the other side, as it were, has been equallyrewarding, if challenging. I was constantly struck whileAmbassador by the breadth of the BSR’s activities. Iattended lectures on Renaissance art, a presentation ofPompeii by its author, Robert Harris, concerts, site visits toHerculaneum and Pompeii, and art exhibitions. But thatwas a mere taster. This report illuminates and illustratesthe quite remarkable range of activity from theHerculaneum Conservation Project to Portus, fromItalian film to contemporary art, from work on the PunicMediterranean to the Viva Roma project. And all thisagainst a background of very real financial pressureexerted on the School’s activities by the vagaries of thesterling/euro exchange rate. It is a signal mark of theBSR’s achievements and of the confidence ourstakeholders have in us that we continue to attractgenerous grants. It will be one of my priorities to try toencourage our core grant provider, the British Academy,to look at some overseas price mechanism, as used by theForeign and Commonwealth Office and the BritishCouncil, to mitigate the effects of the fall in the value ofsterling. Without some such system in place, any financialplanning becomes a lottery.I have stepped into big shoes in taking over from mydistinguished predecessor, Peter Wiseman. The BSR isgreatly in his debt for five remarkable years of dedicationand leadership. Peter and I had a han-over ceremony inBuckingham Palace with our President, HRH PrincessAlexandra, whose visit to the BSR in October 2007 wasone of the highlights of the year. Besides a memorablevisit to Portus, our Royal visitor presented honoraryfellowships and attended a poignant lecture by PeterWiseman. But there are other debts beyond those toPeter. I am very grateful to my fellow members ofCouncil and its subcommittees, whose wise counsel oftenguides my steps. I think it right to recognise in particularthe hard work of those who chair the committees. Specialthanks this year are due to Jenni Lomax and RickyBurdett, whose tireless work for the BSR is nearing itsterm. We shall be pressed indeed to find replacements forsuch vigorous and hard-working colleagues.As Ambassador, I was particularly well placed to seehow the Director’s high standing internationally raised theBSR’s profile and lent breadth to its activities. WithoutAndrew Wallace-Hadrill’s unique blend of scholarship andvision, for instance, it is doubtful that the PackardHumanities Institute would have chosen the School as apartner in the Herculaneum Conservation Project. We arevery lucky to have such an inspiring leader of the teamand fortunate, too, that he is supported by such able anddedicated colleagues in London and Rome. My personalthanks to Elly Murkett, the Director’s PA, for being atremendous source of support and for being so patient asI learn on the job.Sir Ivor RobertsChairman of Council3

D IRECTOR’ S R EPORTThe visit from our President, HRH Princess Alexandra,at the beginning of the academic year, did not mark,unlike her previous two visits, in 1998 and 2002, thecompletion of a phase of building work. For the interveningfive years, the institution has been mercifully free ofintrusive construction, and has been able to exploit itsrenewed facilities with exceptional levels of activity, in termsof projects, activity programmes and a steadily increasingrange of scholarships and fellowships. The Royal visitcelebrated this renewed vigour, and marked the end of thequinquennium as Chairman of Professor Peter Wiseman,distinguished historian of Rome, together with thehand-over to his successor, Sir Ivor Roberts, formerBritish Ambassador to Italy and current President ofTrinity College, Oxford. It was also a chance to mark thegratitude and respect of the institution to a distinguishednew group of Honorary Fellows, including the formerSecretary of the British Academy, Peter Brown, ourformer Honorary Treasurer, Mike Stillwell, thedistinguished Roman epigraphist, Professor SilvioPanciera, and the former President of the ItalianConfederation of Industry, our new neighbour Avv. LucaCordero di Montezemolo. After a welcoming dinner,generously hosted by our Ambassador, Edward Chaplin,and his wife Nicky, the main presentation ceremony tookplace on the second day. This was followed by abeautifully pitched and evocative lecture by PeterWiseman, ‘Images of a city: Turner, Ashby and Rome’,and an opportunity to see the exhibition of Ashby’sphotographs I giganti dell’acqua: acquedotti romani del Lazionelle fotografie di Thomas Ashby.The final day of the visit gave our distinguishedvisitors a chance to visit the jewel in our archaeologicalcrown, Professor Simon Keay’s excavation at Portus, theartificial harbour built by the Emperor Trajan, whereover the preceding month his team had exposed ahitherto unknown harbour installation. After visiting thesite, the group of visitors was spectacularly entertainedby Duke Ascanio Sforza Cesarini and his family. Theirproperty includes the lake itself, formerly the centralbasin of Trajan’s harbour, and now an oasis for birds andwildlife, around which the party was driven in horsedrawntraps, to be offered a sumptuous lunch in thelakeside villa. Our deepest thanks are due to all whomade HRH’s visit so memorable, to the Duke and hisfamily, the Soprintendenza of Ostia, to Edward andNicky Chaplin, and to Riccardo Picci and MarkMoscardini of British Airways and Enrico Romano ofJaguar for taking care of HRH’s transport (other than inthe Duke’s barouche).If the year started on a high, it continued with astunning record of activities, as my colleagues illustrate inthe following pages. Dr Susan Russell, as AssistantDirector, is especially to be commended for the wealth ofthe Events programme for which she bears overallresponsibility. The bare statistics suggest the scale andvariety, if not the sustained quality and interest, of theseevents: eleven conferences and workshops, fourpresentations and press launches, 34 academic lectures,five arts exhibitions (of which three by our residentartists), three architecture lectures with linked exhibitions,two exhibitions of photographs from the Archive, twoconcerts of classical music, a series of events in contemporarymusic, let alone three events for subscribers inLondon. With over 50 events in our Rome premises, itmeans that few weeks have passed between October andJune without at least two events. Our new lecture theatreand exhibition spaces are fully realising their potential.In the archaeological field, projects flourish. SimonKeay has already won widespread praise for the exemplarypublication of the results of the geophysical survey ofPortus in the volume written with Martin Millett (seebelow, Publications p. 34). His present project enrichesthe earlier research: while geophysical survey gives anexceptional overall, bird’s-eye, view of the site, excavationof a carefully chosen area, lying on the junction between4

D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R Tmajor phases of development of the port, casts vital lighton its chronological development. At the same time, thisclose study of one particular port (albeit the mostambitious artificial harbour constructed in antiquity)belongs in the context of a broader examination of portsin the Mediterranean, through the creation of a networkof scholars working on different ports. With the supportof a special grant from the British Academy, it has beenpossible to organise an ambitious workshop, bringingtogether the major players, held in March 2008, andfollowed in September by two panel sessions onMediterranean ports in connection with the InternationalCongress on Classical Archaeology. At the same time, thepioneering use of geophysical survey has enabled SimonKeay to build up an exceptional team, based both inSouthampton and Rome, who have maintained over theAbove: HRH Princess Alexandra visits Portus, accompanied by (left toright) Lady Egerton, Lidia Paroli, Lady Mumford, HE EdwardChaplin, British Ambassador to Italy, Nicky Chaplin, Simon KeayLeft: Honorary Fellow Peter Brown, former Secretary of the BritishAcademy, with his successor, Dr Robin Jacksonlast year a non-stop series of surveys of Roman sites, withnotable gains to our knowledge of ancient landscapes andcityscapes: not only in Italy, at Anagni, Calatia, Gabii,Potenza, Spina and Tivoli, but further afield inMontenegro, at the principal Roman centre of this littleexploredarea, at Doclea (near the capital, Podgorica), atAmara West in Sudan, and in Spain, Simon Keay’s oldstamping ground, both in the area of Tarragona and ofItalica. Not only is there a constant gain in new5

D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R Tknowledge, but the scale of operations allows the developmentof a team with exceptional levels of experienceand skill, both in the field and in the interpretation ofresults. A further bonus of this programme is that it isable to generate its own funding, so raising absolutely thelevel of activity that would be otherwise possible foreither of the partners, BSR and Southampton University.Another important step towards expanding ourtraditional horizons has been a new thread of interest inthe Punic world. In a collaboration with the Society forLibyan Studies, we have started to pull together aninternational network of scholars working on the Punicspeakingpeoples (Phoenician and Carthaginian) of thewestern Mediterranean. In Britain, study of the Punicworld seems to have lain dormant, despite its essentialrole in linking North Africa with Spain and the islands ofthe western Mediterranean — Sicily, Sardinia, Malta andthe Balearics. The geographical pattern foreshadows thatof the Islamic interface with Christendom in the MiddleAges. Supported by a special grant from the BritishAcademy, the present year has seen a preliminaryworkshop, building up to a session at the InternationalCongress of Classical Archaeology in September, with amajor conference planned for November 2008. We areindebted to the energy of two former BSR scholars indeveloping this promising initiative, Dr Jo Crawley Quinn,of Worcester College, Oxford and also editor of thePapers, and Andrew Wilson, Professor of the Archaeologyof the Roman Empire at Oxford.There is some danger, with such a successfularchaeology programme, that we give fuel to those criticswho maintain that British overseas institutes have toonarrow a scope, too heavily weighted towardsarchaeology. It is inescapable that archaeology shouldenjoy some prominence in our activities — both becausearchaeology as a discipline has the most pressing need ofinstitutes to support fieldwork abroad, and because itsprojects tend to be more expensive than those of otherhumanities and social sciences disciplines. But theinstitution has always prided itself on its disciplinarybreadth, and that breadth is fully borne out by the rangeof scholars and award-winners (see p. 15), and by theEvents programme itself. This year has been no exceptionin seeing our scholars working on subjects that rangefrom the sanctuaries of Roman Italy, to the trade in Balticamber in early modern Rome to the extraordinary female‘martyr’ of fascism, Ines Donati. There is no setdistribution of scholarships between different disciplinesand periods: the competition is open, and fierce, and themembers of the Faculty that elects them, whose ownsubjects range across the disciplines, have no inclinationto support candidates in their own discipline againststronger candidates in others.However, to underline our commitment to the modernas well as the ancient, the BSR in 2006 set up a newResearch Professorship in Modern Studies, with a role topromote that commitment. In his second year of tenureof that position, David Forgacs has been able to build onhis many links with Italian colleagues, and on hisprofound knowledge of Italian film, to organise a series ofscreenings and discussions. His work intersects at manypoints with that of our artists, and it is no coincidencethat he organised a number of events jointly with JacopoBenci, Assistant Director (Fine Arts).Our commitment to the Fine Arts is undiminished: atany one moment, there are roughly equal numbers of FineArts and Humanities award-winners in residence, and inthe activities programme, art and architecture events makea conspicuous impact. The Fine Arts scholars, in contrastto the Humanities scholars, are elected by a variety ofbodies: not only the Faculty of Fine Arts, but in the caseof some externally sponsored awards, by other panels,especially the Abbey Council, the Australia Council forthe Arts, and the panel for the Sainsbury Scholarships.This variety guarantees, if guarantee were needed, that ourartists and architects represent a wide range, both in6

D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R Tterms of career stage and of artistic direction. What is themore impressive is that, despite all differences inbackground, the artists collaborate closely. As JacopoBenci shows in his report, the joint shows put onthroughout the year are not merely mixed bags ofunrelated works, but thought through togetherthematically, as in the show entitled The Director’sApartment, which took its impulse from the archivalphotographs of the director’s apartment in the days ofEugenie Strong and recreated within the Gallery anintense space in which art works jostled in closeproximity, including the remarkable doll’s house createdby Prisca Thielmann within the ‘director’s desk’. Thesense of close collaboration, not only between the artists,but between them and the Humanities scholars, was muchenhanced by two scholars whose projects involved others:Lindsay Seers, the Wingate Scholar, used her project onQueen Cristina of Sweden to involve others in a series ofvideos and performances; while Cian Donnelly’sremarkable choir, The Order of the Golden Ghost, drawn fromthe body of residents, in performing his owncompositions at each of the shows, provided a delightfulelement of shared experience.To the rich mix offered by the artists in residence, theprogramme of contemporary arts events curated byCristiana Perrella has long added an important element ofenrichment and outreach. A long-standing focus on videoreflects both the Curator’s expertise and an importantstream within contemporary art, and coincides with thepractice of several of our scholars, as well as of ourmodernist, David Forgacs. This year The Secret Publicshowcased the work of the decade from 1978 to 1988.The Viva Roma! project over the course of a decade hasbrought in selected artists to produce site-specific workin response to Rome: Chris Evans’s As Simple As YourLife Used To Be offered an unusual take by a British artiston four influential Italian politicians. The series ofcontemporary musical events, entitled Tracks, curated byDaniela Cascella, has brought us a figure as famous (andcharming) as Little Annie. It is difficult to look back onthe richness and variety of this programme withoutregret that the changed financial circumstances of nextyear will make it impossible to sustain the same level ofactivity. Cristiana Perrella deserves the institution’swarmest thanks for everything she has achieved over thelast decade.Over this successful programme, and over all the BSR’sactivities, there hangs a long shadow. Between September2007 and April 2008, sterling lost 14% of its value againstthe euro, a fall from which it has not recovered over theintervening months. Nor is there any reason to supposethat the days of the strong euro are past. The impact onthe institution’s finances is grave, since we receive virtuallyall our funding in sterling, but incur the majority of ourexpenditure in euros. With an income (excluding theHerculaneum project) of around two million pounds ayear, this is equivalent to a loss in spending power of aquarter of a million pounds. We do not know what thefuture holds for sterling, whether further fall or (as we allhope) recovery, but it is clear that we must re-dimensionthe ambition and scope of our activities. The loss in valueof sterling affects all aspects of our institution: the librarycan afford fewer books, the Camerone fewer computers;and as fuel costs and food prices press ineluctablyupwards, it will become ever more difficult to keep thebooks of the residential hostel in balance.Inescapably, we will be able to put on fewer events inour activities programme, though we attach importance tosustaining the disciplinary range of our activities and thebalance between Fine Arts and Humanities. The financialpressures only underline the importance to the institutionof the multiple sources of funding that sustain us. Ourcore grant comes from the British Academy, as part ofgovernment funding for the Academy’s programme ofresearch, including its cluster of overseas institutes andsocieties. The Academy, and specifically BASIS, the7

Above: Professor Peter Wiseman gives a lecture at the BSRBelow: Visitors to the estate of the Sforza Cesarini family at Portuscommittee responsible for these grants, chaired byProfessor Michael Fulford, has long shown itself to beresponsive to our needs, and under its President, BaronessO’Neill, and its new CEO, Dr Robin Jackson, theAcademy has embraced a welcome policy of raising thepublic profile of the work of the institutes it supports.Last November, thanks to the hard work of the dynamicMargot Jackson, responsible for Academy-sponsoredInstitutes and Societies, it arranged a major event at theBarbican Centre in London, under the title EvolvingSocieties to showcase the work of the institutes, at whichno less than three BSR representatives spoke — DavidForgacs on ‘Migration to contemporary Rome: work,settlement and social exclusion’ , Simon Keay on ‘Thepast at risk: the contribution of British archaeology tosafeguarding Italian heritage’, and Cristiana Perrellascreening a sample of videos on the theme ‘Viva Roma!’.We are delighted that the Academy is taking this upbeatline, and share the enthusiasm of BASIS for a widening ofthe disciplinary and geographical range of its institutes,which has enabled us to make a first, tentative, move intothe Western Mediterranean at large and into Punic studies(see above). The irony is that as the spending power ofsterling has dropped, we have been attempting to broadenour coverage, and hard thinking will be needed in futureon what can be sustained on limited resources withoutreducing quality.The Academy’s core grant only supports about half ourspending (this year, excluding the Herculaneum project,48%), and it is in the added value made possible byadditional funding sources, on the back, so to speak, ofthe Academy grant, that our range and quality depends.Arts scholarships are almost entirely supported by outsidebodies, in addition to the income of the F.W. Sargantfund: we reiterate our gratitude to the many bodies thatfinance these residencies, the Abbey Council, theAustralia Council for the Arts, the Linbury Trust (for theSainsbury Scholarships), the Harold Hyam Wingate8

D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R TFoundation, the Derek Hill Foundation, and thecollaboration of Arts Council England, the Ruskin Schoolof Drawing and Fine Art, and St Peter’s College, Oxford,together responsible for the Helen Chadwick Fellowship.In the Humanities, we have a particular debt to the PaulMellon Centre for the Study of British Art, which has sentus a series of outstanding Mellon Fellows, as well assupporting various conferences and projects. Bob andElizabeth Boas continue to support an impressive clusterof young architects for special summer awards. This seriesof partnerships much enriches the institution, and it hasbeen an especial pleasure this year to welcome thecreation of the Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship inarchitecture and architectural history, thanks to JoannaWorsley’s formidable fundraising efforts in memory ofher late husband. In addition, new partnerships have beenset up with Photoworks, which is funding a new threemonthfellowship in photography, and, thanks to thetireless efforts of Marina Engel, with the Conseil des Artset des Lettres du Québec for a new three-month awardfor an architect from Quebec. Many other sponsors arethanked in the detailed reports that follow.Individual projects are made possible by specific grants.It is a major achievement on behalf of the Library to havesecured a second three-year grant from the GettyFoundation, to support the cataloguing and digitisation ofthe extraordinary photographic archive. The first grantcovered the work of a group of outstandingphotographers of the late nineteenth and early twentiethcenturies, Father P.P. Mackey, the Bulwer sisters andThomas Ashby himself. The new project is targeted onthe more recent archive of the photographs of JohnWard-Perkins, whose records both of Italian sites and ofNorth Africa have within half a century become animportant historical document in themselves. Thecombined energies of the Librarian, Valerie Scott, and ofher team, led by the Archivist, Alessandra Giovenco, aresuch that these ambitious projects are delivered on time,Top: HRH Princess Alexandra visits the exhibition of Ashby photographs,I giganti dell’acqua, accompanied by Valerie Scott and Rita TurchettiAbove: Honorary Fellows Michael Stillwell, Professor Silvio Pancieraand Peter Brown9

D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R Tand produce much else as spin off. This year has seen noless than two exhibitions of the photographs of ThomasAshby: I giganti dell’acqua followed him in pursuit of theaqueducts of Lazio, in a series of haunting images, thanksto the generous support of the Regione Lazio, in consortwith the Comune di Roma and the Istituto Centrale per ilCatalogo e la Documentazione; this was followed later inthe year by the no less striking images of the ItinerariAbruzzesi. The success and interest of these initiatives hasattracted sponsorship of other kinds, and we areparticularly pleased that the John R. Murray CharitableTrust is now supporting the conservation and restorationof some of our rare books. John and Virginia Murray werealso generous in hosting a fundraising event in the oldseat of the publishing house in London: our goal is tobring an exhibition of Ashby photographs to Sir JohnSoane’s Museum, with which we have set up a welcomenew partnership.Our archaeology is equally dependent on externalsupport, on the major grant from the Arts and HumanitiesResearch Council that supports Simon Keay’s work atPortus, and the ability of the collaboration withSouthampton University in geophysics to undertakenumerous other projects. The greatest single item on ourbudget, however, is the Herculaneum ConservationProject, a long-standing collaboration with the PackardHumanities Institute and the Soprintendenza Archeologicadi Napoli e Pompei (Naples and Pompeii have beenmerged by a reform this year, still under Professor PieroGuzzo). The impact of a project with a turnover of nearlytwo million pounds a year is much more visible on site atHerculaneum than in Rome, but the allowance of anadministration fee to the BSR, in recognition of thesignificant impact of the project not only on the Directorbut on our Bursar, Alvise Di Giulio, and on the institutionat large, makes a material difference to our finances.We have no doubt that the future prosperity of theSchool depends more on building further this network ofpartnerships and sponsorships, rather than drawing moreheavily on a shrinking public purse. We repeat ourgratitude to all these bodies, but also to the manyindividuals, university departments, colleges and bodiesthat provide subscriptions and donations, all of whichcumulatively give life-blood to the institution. We alsothank the numerous friends and supporters, in Rome,London and elsewhere, whose kindness and, often, whoseunpaid efforts, keep the show on the road: above all tothe Chairs of our committees, who undertake a notableburden (with especial thanks to Jenni Lomax, who willsoon complete a six-year term with the Faculty of FineArts), to the Editor of our Papers (with especial thanks toDr John Patterson, who after five volumes has handedover to Jo Crawley Quinn), and to the numerous committeemembers, friends and supporters. But I close, asever, with thanks to our own staff, both in Rome andLondon, and in particular to Sarah Ciacci, who left theLondon office in March 2008. Our staff form a team ofexceptional dedication, to whose efforts both this Reportand the healthy state of the School itself bear ampletestimony.Andrew Wallace-HadrillDirector10

H ERCULANEUM C ONSERVATION P ROJECTThe recent declaration by the new government of a stateof emergency in Pompeii underlines what has beenwell-known for decades to those working in the Vesuviansites: that these best-loved of tourist destinations are in acritical state, overwhelmed by uncontrolled mass-tourism,with its notoriously short-term goals, and literally crumblinginto ruins for lack of investment, and for the inadequaciesof the current system of heritage management. In thiscontext, the project at Herculaneum, in which the BSR hasbeen privileged to play a role for the last seven years, hascome to prominence as an example of the site at which, withthe advantage of exceptional external sponsorship, newsolutions and approaches can be experimented with andtested. Over this period, the equivalent of nearly ten millionpounds has been invested in the site by the PackardHumanities Institute. But what counts is not spendingmoney, but spending it well. The winning formula of theProject has been its willingness to tangle with basics, likedrainage and leaking roofs, and at the same time to use hightechnology not for generating flashy effects, but analysingintractable problems. Gradually, but quite perceptibly, thesite shows signs of new life; and while tourist numbers sinkelsewhere on the Bay of Naples, they rise in Herculaneum.Two features of the project are becoming increasinglyapparent. The first is the extent of new archaeologicalknowledge that can be generated by a conservation project.The geological research of Professor Aldo Cinque has notonly shown how urbanisation transformed the naturalgeological terrain, cutting back the tip of a volcanic flow tocreate a defensive seawall, but has revealed the profoundmodifications caused by the bradyseism that caused the landto rise and fall in relation to the sea-level by as much as fivemetres, causing the abandonment of entire storeys ofbuildings. At the same time, the investigation by DrDomenico Camardo (HCP) and by Professor Mark Robinsonof Oxford of the rich contents of the sewers beneath amulti-storey block of shops and flats is casting a vivid lifeon diet and the household waste of the first century AD.The second important feature to underline is theincreasing collaboration between this archaeological projectand the local stake-holders, represented by the Comune diErcolano. The site takes the form of a vast hole in the fabricof the modern city, with modern housing balancedprecipitously above ancient ruins. The project’s attention tothe peripheries of the site culminated in summer 2007 with amajor programme of demolitions of condemned propertieson the edge of the site, carried out by the local authorityitself, in close collaboration with both the Soprintendenzaand Project. On the one hand, this brings very much closerthe prospect of new excavations in the area of the ancientBasilica Noniana; on the other, it has led to closer relationsbetween the Comune and the archaeological community.This year, the BSR, as one of a partnership of three with theSoprintendenza and Comune, was proud to have seen thelaunch of the International Centre for the Study ofHerculaneum, with Christian Biggi as its first Manager.Wholly financed by the Comune through a national grant, ithas sought to promote greater mutual understanding, on theone hand by undertaking participatory initiatives with thelocal community, on the other by a series of internationalworkshops, in partnership with ICCROM, the Rome-basedinternational centre for conservation. Among the numerousinitiatives of the new Centre was the support, thanksespecially to the efforts of Sarah Court and the HCP team,of a new film, directed by Marcellino de Baggis, Herculaneum:diari del buio e della luce (‘Herculaneum: Diaries of Light andDark’), featuring extensive archival footage of the earlyexcavations. It was awarded the first prize at the Romearchaeological film festival, Capitello d’Oro. If this projectflourishes, it does so because of convictions shared with usby three parties: the Soprintendente, Piero Guzzo, theMayor of Ercolano, Nino Daniele, and the President of thePackard Humanities Institute, David W. Packard.Andrew Wallace-HadrillDirector, Herculaneum Conservation Project11

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 TRight: Ground cleared by demolitionsabove the Basilica of HerculaneumBelow: Three-dimensional digital modelof the site of the Basilica ofHerculaneum, designed by AscanioD’Andrea12

Right: Herculaneum, ancientand modernBelow: The Mayor ofErcolano, Nino Daniele,Director of the site ofHerculaneum, Dr MariaPaola Guidobaldi, andSopraintendente of Naplesand Pompeii, Professor PieroGuzzoBelow right: Cover of prizewinningfilm onHerculaneum by Marcellinode Baggis13

D EVELOPMENTThanks largely to the School’s new benefactors, Johnand Virginia Murray (via the John R. MurrayCharitable Trust), a new partnership has been formed withSir John Soane’s Museum. The Director and Director ofDevelopment of the Museum responded very positively toa BSR proposal for the Museum to host the BSRexhibition of the Mackey collection of late nineteenthcenturyphotographs of Rome held in the Archive. Thisexhibition was shown in Rome in January 2005, and nowthe Librarian has worked on a more ambitious plan tobring the exhibition to London in the summer of 2009.The title is: Images from the Past: Rome in the Photographs ofFather Peter Paul Mackey, 1890–1901. There is a naturalsynergy between the Museum and the BSR as a result oftheir respective interest in and focus on Italy and theclassics, as well as a mutual scholarly approach to collectionand exhibition. It is hoped that a reciprocal arrangement —with Soane Museum activity in Rome — will emerge in duecourse. Unable themselves to fund this particular project,the Murrays generously held a fundraising reception in Juneboth to promote the idea of this show and to celebrate analliance between two institutions that they support. Now,fundraising for the costs of a catalogue to accompany theexhibition in London is under way.Another of the School’s donors, Di Bresciani, who fundsthe Youth Music Foundation of Australia Scholarship, puton a celebratory dinner with the Chair of Development, inhonour of the BSR, during the latter’s visit to Melbourne inApril. The latest YMFA Scholar, Stefan Cassomenos, playedto the audience and toasts to the BSR, its Director and itsfuture were raised from a crowd of supporters.In addition to these events, the School’s UK outreachactivity continued throughout the year with three wellattendedlectures, culminating in a tour de force from theDirector on Herculaneum: new light in the dark, including theviewing of scenes from the new film of Marcellino deBaggis, Herculaneum: Diaries of Light and Dark. Theimportance of keeping up these links with friends andalumni of the School is well understood. An illustrationof the enduring warmth that former relationships inRome can lead to came this year when, out of the blue,we learnt that William T.C. Walker, a Rome Scholar inArchitecture 1937–9 and member of the Faculty ofArchitecture in 1951, had generously bequeathed over£25,000 to the School ‘to further the study of Classicalor Renaissance architecture in Rome at the BritishSchool’.Our thanks, as always, go to the London office of theSchool — in particular Sarah Ciacci, who has now started anew career but who worked hard on our UK outreachprogramme —, to Elly Murkett and Alvise Di Giulio inRome, as well as to our group of volunteers who alwaysprovide invaluable back-up for our UK events.Jill PellewChair of DevelopmentDonorsDonors to the BSR in 2007–8 include: Arup Italia; theComune di Brindisi; the British Council; Mr P.W.H. Brown;Buro Happold; the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge; theCochemé Charitable Trust; the John S. Cohen Foundation;Lady Egerton; the Getty Foundation; the GladstoneMemorial Trust; the Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust;Knauf Italia; Dr Jane Larner and family; the Marc FitchFund; the Regione Lazio; the Craven Committee, Oxford;St John’s College, Oxford; PARC (Direzione Generale perla Qualità e la Tutela del Paesaggio, l’Architettura e l’ArteContemporanea); the Packard Humanities Institute; theSociety of Dilettanti; the Society for the Promotion ofRoman Studies; the Swedish Embassy in Rome; MsVanessa Somers Vreeland; the late Mr W.T.C. Walker.14

H UMANITIES AWARDSBalsdon FellowDr Maureen Carroll (University of Sheffield)Burial and commemoration of babies and neonates in Roman Italy,Gaul and the Celtic NorthHugh Last FellowDr Penelope Davies (University of Texas at Austin)Art and persuasion in Republican RomePaul Mellon Centre Rome FellowDr Viccy Coltman (University of Edinburgh)Marble mania: the art history and historiography of sculpture inBritain since 1790Rome FellowsDr Lucy Davis (Courtauld Institute/CASVA Washington DC)‘Pittori Fiamminghi’ at the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590–1630Dr Sarah Morgan (University of Sydney)Ines Donati, ‘La Capitana’: the making of a female fascist martyrRome ScholarsAnnelies Cazemier (University of Oxford)Sanctuaries in southern Italy and Sicily in the face of Roman expansionRachel King (University of Manchester)Communities of craftsmen and consumers of Baltic amber in earlymodern RomeRalegh Radford Rome ScholarDr Paul Johnson (University of Southampton)Trade, exchange and the development of Italian maritime cities in lateantiquityMacquarie University Gale ScholarDr Jaye McKenzie-Clark (Macquarie University)Ceramic production in Campania: the supply and distribution oftableware to PompeiiRome AwardeesSarah Burnett (University of Warwick)A saint between east and west: the cult of Saint Nicholas in medieval ItalyMatthew Dal Santo (University of Cambridge)Orthodoxy, asceticism and the cult of saints as aspects of ByzantineLatinism in the writings of Pope Gregory the Great (590–604)Frances Parton (University of Cambridge)The Liber Pontificalis and Franco-papal relations 824–91Benjamin Russell (University of Oxford)Sculpted stone and the Roman economy, 100 BC–AD 300Tim Potter Memorial AwardeeVictoria Leitch (University of Oxford)Trade in Roman and late Roman north African cookwares in ItalyMelbourne Rome ScholarKatrina Grant (University of Melbourne)The representation of gardens and nature in Arcadian RomeYouth Music Foundation of Australia ScholarStefan CassomenosResearch FellowsDr Diane ArchibaldGendered spaces: private and public spaces in Renaissance RomeDr Patrizia CavazziniThe painter Agostino Tassi; the art market in RomeDr Roberto CobianchiCeremonies for canonisation in Renaissance RomeDr Elizabeth FentressRoman archaeologyDr Inge Lyse HansenProvincial identity and patronage in the Greek eastDr Andrew HopkinsCommittenza architettonica fra Venezia e Roma nel SeicentoDr Clare HornsbyEdition of the papers of Ilaria BignaminiDr Helen LangdonThe painters Salvator Rosa and Claude LorrainDr Erika MilburnCritical edition of the lyric poetry of Luigi TansilloDr Caspar PearsonRepresenting the city in fifteenth-century Italy: image, text and theRome of Sixtus IVDr Lori-Ann TouchetteAncient Roman artDr Karin WolfeThe Venetian painter Francesco Trevisani15

H UMANITIES A CTIVITIESThis has been a special year for collaborations andcrossovers between Humanities and Fine Arts awardholders,and a dynamic one for events and activities, bothacademic and social. Katrina Grant (our first MelbourneRome Scholar), Rachel King, Victoria Leitch, JayeMcKenzie-Clark, Sarah Morgan, Sue Russell and severalFine Arts award-holders and residents, sang in the choirorganised by Cian Donnelly (Arts Council of NorthernIreland Fellow) to perform at the Fine Arts exhibitions.Sarah also sang in a choir that performs regularly inRome’s churches. In this musical year a notable event wasthe concert by Stefan Cassomenos, his considerabletalents as pianist and composer superbly demonstratedbefore a responsive audience that included HE AmandaVanstone, Australian Ambassador to Italy, and BSR’s newChairman, Sir Ivor Roberts. Several scholars gave papersat international conferences: Matthew Dal Santo inToronto, Rachel King in Poland, Jaye Mackenzie-Clark inSheffield, Sarah Morgan in Lyon, Ben Russell in Toulouse,Annelies Cazemier at the Symposium Cumanum, and PaulJohnson in Amsterdam. Paul, Ben, Annelies and VictoriaLeitch also contributed papers to Associazione Internazionaledi Archeologia Classica (AIAC) meetings in Rome.Paul successfully defended his PhD in January.Congratulations to the following on securing posts:Roberto Cobianchi (Rome Scholar 2003–4) at Messina,Emma-Jayne Graham (2005–6) at St Andrews, JessicaHughes (2003–4) at the Open University, and CasparPearson (BSR Research Fellow) at Essex. Lucy Davis(2007–8) will return to the BSR in 2008–9 as Sue Russell’sResearch Assistant.A highlight of the Humanities events programme wasthe exhibition and conference held to celebrate the 500 thanniversary of the birth of the architect Andrea Palladio.The exhibition had as its focus a digitally animated mapconstructed by Alan Day (Bath) of itineraries fromPalladio’s Roman guidebooks, published as Palladio’s Rome(Yale University Press, 2006) by the two other organisers,Award-holders on a trip to the Villa PamphiljVaughan Hart (Bath) and Peter Hicks (FondationNapoléon). Rare antiquarian books and maps from theBSR Library and Archive were also exhibited. The eventopened with a lecture on the Pantheon and its receptionby Mark Wilson Jones (Bath) to a crowded lecture theatre.The interdisciplinary, one-day conference onantiquarianism that Sue Russell organised for the followingday was a great success, with scholars from Australia,France, Germany, Italy, Norway and the UK givingstimulating papers.The lecture programme included accomplishedpresentations by this year’s fellowship-holders.Unfortunately Maureen Carroll broke her arm at the endof her stay and was unable to deliver the year’s finallecture, which will be rescheduled. Three guest lecturersfocused on artists who were the subject of major Italianexhibitions during the year: James Hamilton(Birmingham) on Turner in Rome, Ann Sutherland Harris(Pittsburgh) on Bernini as painter, and Piers Baker-Bates(2002–3) on Sebastiano del Piombo. Piers was the firstRubinstein Fellow from the Society for RenaissanceStudies, speaking on the occasion of what will be anannual event sponsored by the Society. Other speakersincluded Cordelia Warr (Manchester) on Italian images ofstigmata in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, AndrewLeach (Queensland) on Manfredo Tafuri’s writings aboutBorromini, Dana Arnold (Southampton) on the reception16

H U M A N I T I E S A C T I V I T I E Sof antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome, and ClareHornsby (Paul Mellon Centre Special Projects Fellow) onfinishing the late Ilaria Bignamini’s book, Digging andDealing in Eighteenth-century Rome. BSR Modern StudiesProfessor David Forgacs spoke on ‘Ethnographies of theItalian South from Giuseppe Pitrè to Ernesto DeMartino’, part of his ongoing research project ‘Language,space and power in Italy since 1800’. With his guest, LuigiGoglia (Roma Tre), he gave a presentation on ‘Fascism,racism and colonial representations in photographs andpostcards of the 1930s’. David also screened thedocumentary Matti da slegare (1975) and discussed the filmwith Maria Grazia Giannichedda (Fondazione FrancoBasaglia) and planned a series of informal film screeningswith Jacopo Benci.The Architecture programme, curated by Marina Engel,is now well established and, as usual, attracted bigaudiences. British architects Amanda Levete of FutureSystems and David Adjaye showcased their work inautumn and winter, completing the series ‘Spaces for Art’.Ma0, the Roman architectural practice, commenced a newcycle in spring on the theme ‘London-Rome: Work inProcess (eight architecture practices)’ which will be acollaboration with PARC (Direzione Generale per laQualità e la Tutela del Paesaggio, l’Architettura e l’ArteContemporanee) in Rome and the ArchitectureFoundation in London.Site visits included trips to Pompeii and Herculaneum;the Castello Ruspoli at Vignanello and Castello Orsini atValanello (courtesy of the Approdo Romano); the PalazzoChigi at Ariccia and the Museo delle Navi at Lake Nemi;the Abbey of Farfa; the Palazzo Farnese; the PalazzoFarnese at Caprarola; the Villa Pamphilj; the Abbey of SanNilo at Grottaferrata and Frascati; the Tower of theWinds in the Vatican and the Archivio Segreto Vaticano;Santa Maria del Priorato; the Palazzo Pamphilj and VillaMadama.Susan RussellAssistant DirectorCity of Rome students exploring the maritime theatre in Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli17

H U M A N I T I E S A C T I V I T I E STaught CoursesThe School’s City of Rome postgraduate course, which runsannually through April and May, is now in its thirteenth yearand is offered at twelve British universities. The courseprovides students of classics, ancient history and archaeologywith a full immersion in the topography, art and architectureof the city, from its origins to the end of the Empire(although later periods are by no means neglected). In 2008twelve students attended, from the universities of Cardiff,Exeter, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford, Reading, RoyalHolloway and St Andrews. The course was directed byRobert Coates-Stephens and administered by Elly Murkett,with ex-student Chris Siwicki providing welcome logisticalsupport. Permits for access to restricted monuments werearranged with great efficiency and diplomacy by Maria PiaMalvezzi, and Geraldine Wellington saw to the hostelarrangements with characteristic brio.Site visits form the key element of the teaching.Highlights in 2008 included the ongoing excavations of thedomus beneath the Palazzo Valentini (with the site director,Paola Baldassari), the archaic houses of the Via Sacra (withDunia Filippi), the new German project in the Palatine’sFlavian Palace (with Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt) and a bravura tourof the Via Annibaldi Nymphaeum by Frank Sear. Guestlecturers included John Clarke, Filippo Coarelli, PenelopeDavies and Lynne Lancaster.The Library staff dealt generously with the annual invasion,and by the course’s end a fine series of essays had beenproduced on such topics as the narrow procession friezes onRome’s honorific arches, Ovid’s subversion of the city’sAugustan ‘moral landscape’ and a density analysis ofcommercial structures in the fourteen regions. Past studentsof the course are now teaching and working at places as farafield as the universities of Santiago de Chile, São Paulo,Sydney, Reading and Oxford, as well as the British Museum,and, since half of this year’s intake is going on to doctoralstudy, we may hope that this trend continues. As in previousyears, we are grateful for the support of the Roman Society,Robert Coates-Stephens with City of Rome students at the Pantheonwhich has allowed us to offer this rare opportunity topromising young scholars and future generations of academics.Twenty-six students from the universities of Bristol,Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, King’s CollegeLondon, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, RoyalHolloway, Southampton, St Andrews and Warwick attendedthe undergraduate Summer School in September 2007, whichwas directed by Matthew Nicholls (University of Reading)and Robert Coates-Stephens. The Gladstone Memorial Prizewas awarded to Emma Wright of Brasenose College, Oxford.The course, which serves as an introduction to the city forstudents with varying backgrounds and interests within thebroad study of the ancient world (archaeology, ancient andmedieval history, classics and art history), focuses on thesocial, economic, political and religious activities thatconstituted life and death in the ancient city. ‘Themed’ daysincluded: the Tiber and provisioning Rome, politics and theForum, war and the triumph, the city and the urban plebs,roads and cemeteries, and the transformations of lateantiquity. Visits out of Rome included Ostia, the Isola Sacraand Tivoli. The course directors provided a series of ninesupplementary lectures to introduce each itinerary. Onceagain, we would like to express our thanks for the generoussupport of the Roman Society, the Faculty of Classics atCambridge, the Craven Committee at Oxford and theGladstone Memorial Trust.Robert Coates-StephensCary Fellow18

E VENTSCONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND RELATED EVENTS:Identifying the Punic Mediterranean. One-day workshop organised incollaboration with the Society for Libyan StudiesAssociazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica meeting:Economia e società, chaired by Sergio Fontana, with contributionsfrom Paul Johnson (BSR; Southampton) and Victoria Leitch(BSR; Oxford)Filosofi dalla scuola di Aristotele. Cameleonte e Prassifane: frammenti per unastoria della critica letteraria antica. Opening day of the three-dayconference, part of the ‘Theophrastus project’ organised by theIstituto Svizzero di RomaLazio e Sabina. Day one of a three-day conference organised in collaborationwith the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del LazioAgricoltura e scambi nell’Italia tardo repubblicana. The morning sessionof day two of the conference organised by the Danish Academyand the Università di Roma, ‘La Sapienza’Before and after Palladio’s Rome: antiquarianism from antiquity to thenineteenth century. One-day conference and exhibition Palladio’sRome, organised by BSR in collaboration with Vaughan Hart &Alan Day (Bath) and Peter Hicks (Fondation Napoléon)Recent research at Portus and in its hinterland. One-day workshopPort networks in the Roman Mediterranean. Two-day workshop organisedin collaboration with Timmy Gambin (University of Malta andAurora SP Trust)Building Roma Aeterna. Day one of a two-day conference organised incollaboration with the American Academy in Rome and theInstitutum Romanum FinlandiaeARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY LECTURESPeter Wiseman (Exeter): Images of a city: Turner, Ashby and RomePresentation of Herculaneum: Diaries of Light and Dark by Marcellinode Baggis (onionskin productions) in collaboration with theHerculaneum Conservation ProjectJaye McKenzie-Clark (BSR; Macquarie): Patterns of socialdifferentiation at Pompeii: the ceramic evidenceChristophe Morhange and Nick Marriner: The geoscience of ancientMediterranean harboursBryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford): Sorpasso. Constantinople and theovertaking of RomeAnnelies Cazemier (BSR; Oxford): Networking with gods: the spread ofRoman hegemony seen from sanctuaries in southern Italy and GreecePaul Johnson (BSR; Southampton): Urban trajectories: Rome, Milanand the transformation of Italian cities in late antiquityHISTORY OF ART, HUMANITIES AND MODERN STUDIES LECTURESJames Hamilton (Birmingham): Turner in RomeAnn Sutherland Harris (Pittsburgh): Gianlorenzo Bernini as painter:some thoughts on current research and a new exhibitionCordelia Warr (Manchester): Marking the body, performing the body:visualising stigmata in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuriesViccy Coltman (BSR; Edinburgh): Marble mania: the art history andhistoriography of sculpture in Britain since 1760David Forgacs (BSR; UCL): Ethnographies of the Italian South fromGiuseppe Pitré to Ernesto De MartinoAndrew Leach (Queensland): Francesco Borromini and the crisis ofthe Humanist universeLuigi Goglia (Roma Tre): Fascism, racism and colonialrepresentations in photographs and postcards of the 1930sDana Arnold (Southampton): ‘He saw places as they were, not as theyare’: remembering and experiencing Rome in the eighteenth centuryPiers Baker-Bates (Society for Renaissance Studies): BeyondMichelangelo; new perspectives on Sebastiano del Piombo’s careerat RomeMark Wilson Jones (Bath): The Pantheon and the idea of Rome fromPalladio to todayDavid Forgacs (BSR; UCL) and Maria Grazia Giannichedda(Fondazione Franco Basaglia): Screening and discussion of thedocumentary Matti da slegareClare Hornsby (BSR; Paul Mellon): Digging and Dealing in EighteenthcenturyRome: writing Ilaria’s bookSarah Morgan (BSR; Sydney): Ines Donati, ‘La Capitana’: the makingof a fascist martyrRachel King (BSR; Manchester): Whale’s sperm, maiden’s tears andlynx’s urine — Baltic amber and the fascination for it in earlymodern ItalyLucy Davis (BSR): ‘Pittori fiamminghi’ at the Accademia di San Luca,c. 1590–1630CITY OF ROME POSTGRADUATE COURSE LECTURES AND SEMINARSPenelope Davies (BSR; Texas): The individual, the state andarchitecture in Republican RomeRobert Coates-Stephens (BSR): Sources for Roman topographyJohn Hopkins (Texas): On archaic RomeAndrew Wallace-Hadrill (BSR): Building identities in late RepublicanItalySaskia Stevens (Oxford): Roman boundaries/pomeriumFilippo Coarelli (Perugia): Substructio et Tabularium19

E V E N T SPieter Broucke (Middlebury College): The five PantheonsMaureen Carroll (BSR; Sheffield): Memoria and Damnatio Memoriae:preserving and erasing identities in Roman funerary commemorationJohn Clarke (Texas): Viewer-based models for reading ImperialmonumentsLynne Lancaster (Ohio): Technological innovation in Imperial Rome:what can ancient concrete tell us about Roman society?Paul Johnson (BSR; Southampton): Changing relationships with thecity in late antiquityFabio Barry (St Andrews): The Mouth of Truth and the Forum BoariumMichele Salzman (California): Apocalypse Then? Jerome and the fallof Rome in 410Susan Russell (BSR): Pirro Ligorio as architect and archaeologistARTS AND ARCHITECTURE EVENTSPresentation of Jacopo Benci. Faraway and LuminousPress launch of 20Eventi — Arte contemporanea in SabinaFine Arts Awardees’ ExhibitionsDecember 2007: Party at the American Academy; Spartacus Chetwynd,Cian Donnelly, Anthony Faroux, Harriet Harriss, AislingHedgecock, Leslie Matthews, Lindsay Seers, Prisca Thielmann,John Walter. Curated by Jacopo BenciMarch 2008: The Director’s Apartment; Jonathan Allen, Gordon Burn,Cian Donnelly, Anthony Faroux, Nadia Hebson, AislingHedgecock, Jennifer Marshall, Prisca Thielmann, John Walter.Curated by Jacopo BenciJune 2008: Tutti Frutti; James and Eleanor Avery, Cian Donnelly,Anthony Faroux, Aisling Hedgecock, Catrin Huber, Marta Marcé,Prisca Thielmann, John Walter. Curated by Jacopo BenciArchitecture Programme‘SPACES FOR ART’Amanda Levete (Future Systems): Lecture and exhibition, Workingwith artistsDavid Adjaye (Adjaye Architects): Lecture, Art and architecture (withaccompanying exhibition at Casa dell’Architettura)‘LONDON–ROME: WORK IN PROCESS’Ma0/emmeazero: Lecture and exhibition, BorderlinesContemporary Arts ProgrammeExhibition: The Secret Public: the Last Days of the British Underground1978–1988. A Video Library. Curated by Stefan Kalmàr, MichaelBracewell and Ian WhiteScreenings and talks: Cosey Fanni Tutti, in conversation with DanielaCascella (including a video about Throbbing Gristle)Scratch VideoPanel discussion of ‘Underground culture in Italy in the 80s’Book presentation: Ian Kiaer, in conversation with Cristiana PerrellaExhibition: Chris Evans. As Simple As Your Life Used To Be. Curatedby Cristiana PerrellaTracks series: Little Annie with Paul Wallfisch. Curated by DanielaCascellaLecture/performance: Martin Creed, WordsBook presentation: Film d’artista, by Maria Rosa SossaiMUSIC EVENTSPerformance: Fantasies for Piano, by Stefan Cassomenos (BSR;Melbourne)Performance: Enoch Arden, by Graham Roos and James KeayLIBRARY EVENTSInscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica. Two-day workshop organised incollaboration with Charlotte Roueché (KCL) and Joyce ReynoldsCare and identification of non-silver photographic printing processes. Three-day‘History of Photography’ workshop organised in collaborationwith Lorenzo Scaramella and Giulia Cucinella BriantExhibitions in the series ‘Immagini e memoria’.I giganti dell’acqua: acquedotti romani del Lazio nelle fotografie di ThomasAshby (1892–1925). Curated by BSR Library and Archive staffItinerari abruzzesi: archeologia, arte e folklore nelle fotografie di Thomas Ashby(1901–1923). Curated by BSR Library and Archive staffUK EVENTSRoman Reflections: Views from the BSR, 2006–7Alexandria in Pompeii: reflections on cameo glass and wallpaintingsSusan Walker, Balsdon Fellow 2006–7Do mice think in Italian?Edwina Ashton, Wingate Rome Scholar 2006–7Presentation of Jacopo Benci. Faraway and Luminous, with Jacopo Benciin conversation with Anthony Downey and Eric ParryAndrew Wallace-Hadrill (BSR): Herculaneum: new light in the dark(including a viewing of scenes from the film of Marcellino deBaggis, Herculaneum: Diaries of Light and Dark)20

A RCHAEOLOGYThis year saw the development of our flagship researchprogramme — the Roman Ports Project — with a firstseason of excavation at Portus, as well as a geophysicsprogramme that is extending its horizons beyond Italy andinvolvement in several other collaborative projects.THE ROMAN PORTS PROJECTThis project, directed by Simon Keay, aims to enhance ourunderstanding of Portus, the port of Imperial Rome, throughexcavation, survey and the analysis of finds, and to exploreits relationship to other ports across the Mediterranean.Excavations and Survey at PortusThe first main area of activity focused upon excavation andsurvey at Portus — the Portus Project — funded by the Artsand Humanities Research Council and the Soprintendenzaper i Beni Archeologici di Ostia. Activities undertaken in thecourse of 2007–8 can be broken down into three areas.The ExcavationThe first season took place over five weeks duringSeptember and early October 2007, was directed by SimonKeay and Graeme Earl (Southampton), assisted by Dott.ssaLidia Paroli (Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici diOstia), and involved participants from the universities ofSouthampton, Cambridge, Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Aix-en-Provence, Tarragona and Seville. It built upon two earlierseasons of topographic work (March 2007) and resistancetomography (June 2007). The excavations uncovered a large(250m 2 ) open area at the eastern edge of the PalazzoImperiale, a key building at the centre of the port, revealinga large rectangular dock or canal that was probably ofClaudian date, defined by a spectacular series of moles onthe south side of the main Claudian basin of the port. Thiswas filled with sand in the course of the first and secondcenturies AD, and its central stretch subsequently covered bya large circular building in the Severan period. The wholearea was extensively replanned in the later fifth and sixthcenturies AD. After the completion of the excavation at theend of the first week of October, there was a formal visit tothe site by HRH Princess Alexandra, led by Simon Keay,accompanied by the British Ambassador, the Deputy-Minister for the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali,the Mayor of Fiumicino, the Secretary to the Director of theRegione Lazio, the Soprintendente per i Beni Archeologicidi Ostia ad interim and other guests. This was followed by avisit to the part of Portus that lies within the property ofDuke Ascanio Sforza Cesarini, followed by a reception atthe Villa Torlonia.Additional GeophysicsThese excavations were complemented by continuedAHRC-funded geophysical survey within the port complex.The most important element was a two-week season by ajoint BSR/Archaeological Prospection Services ofSouthampton (APSS) team ( June 2008). It used groundpenetrating radar, high definition resistance, magnetometryand topographic survey techniques to understand better theimmediate environs of the excavation and the PalazzoImperiale. The team also undertook the survey of a sixhectare area within the basin of the Claudian harbour(November 2007), funded by Duke Sforza Cesarini, whichrevealed the alignment of buildings, possibly dating to thelate antique period, by which time it would have silted up.The Portus Hinterland SurveyThis forms a key element in our strategy to understandbetter the broader landscape in which Portus is situated. Afirst month-long season of magnetometer survey inFebruary covered circa eighteen hectares of the northeastquadrant of the Isola Sacra, an island that lies betweenPortus and Ostia to the south. This element of the PortusProject was directed by Professor Martin Millett(Cambridge), Kris Strutt (APSS) and Paola Germona(Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia). Itfocused upon the northeastern part of the Isola Sacra,21

A R C H A E O L O G Yrevealing traces of structures associated with the Romanmarble yards — the statio marmorum — and possible tombsalong the façade of the Tiber. In addition to this,geophysical work on the site of the Stagno Maccarese atAcilia was undertaken by a BSR/APSS team, funded byPirelliRe (July 2008), enhancing our understanding of thelagoonal hinterland of Ostia.The results of the first year of the Portus Project werediscussed at the first public Portus Workshop, which wasjointly organised by Simon Keay and Lidia Paroli, and heldat the BSR in March 2008. It commenced with an addressby Professor Anna Gallina Zevi and involved sixteenspeakers and a capacity audience. The topics included areview of the results of the BSR project, as well as reportson work in the hinterland of the port by colleagues in theSoprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia and theSoprintendenza Archeologica di Roma. The papers arebeing written up for publication and will be submitted forconsideration as a BSR monograph in autumn 2008.Roman Port NetworksThis aspect of the project explores the changing economicrelationship between Portus and other MediterraneanRoman ports. It was inaugurated in March 2008 with theRoman Port Networks Workshop, organised by Simon Keayand Timmy Gambin (Aurora Trust and University of Malta)in conjunction with the Society for Libyan Studies, financedby a special grant from the British Academy as part of itsReconnecting the Mediterranean initiative, and was alsosupported by the Escuela Española de Historia, Arte yArqueología, the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, theUniversidad de Sevilla and the Centre Camille Jullian of theUniversité d’Aix-en-Provence. It involved 22 speakers and acapacity audience. The aim of the conference was to explorethe archaeological evidence for the existence of tradingnetworks between Portus and other ports across theMediterranean. The proceedings will be submitted as a BSRmonograph. This event also saw the launch of the PortNetworks project which involves a number of participantsat the Workshop. It will involve computer-based analyses ofRoman ceramics and marble by three Southampton PhDstudents, and will draw upon the expertise of post-doctoralfellows and research assistants from collaboratinginstitutions in Italy and across the Mediterranean.West Mediterranean Port HinterlandsThis aspect of the project aims to establish a Mediterraneancontext for Portus by means of the geophysical analysis byBSR/APSS of the hinterlands of some of the key provincialports supplying Rome. Attention to date has been focusedupon ports in Iberia and north Africa.A geophysical survey was conducted in the hinterland ofthe major Roman port of Tarraco (Tarragona) in easternSpain in October 2007, in conjunction with, and funded by,the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica in the context ofits new study of the ager Tarracoensis. Its research aim wasto advance understanding of important villa and industrialsites supplying the port of Tarraco. The results have madean important contribution to several key villa sites, such asCentcelles and Els Antigons. Further south, a briefexploratory programme of geophysics was undertaken inthe port area of the Roman city of Italica (Santiponce) insouthern Spain, a satellite of the great sea-port of Hispalis(Seville). This builds upon work undertaken by Simon Keayand others at the site in the 1990s. The site of the river-portis adjacent to the Rio Huelva, a tributary of theGuadalquivir, and remains were located at a depth of circathree metres. Geophysics was also undertaken at sites in thevicinity of the river-port of Roman Laelia (Olivares), to thewest of Italica, along the course of the river Guadiamar inlate 2007/early 2008. Here our work was part of a largerproject coordinated by Dr F. Amores Carredano (Sevilla).The results so far are very promising and have revealed arange of prehistoric and Roman sites. The survey is beingcomplemented by a surface survey undertaken by a Spanish22

A R C H A E O L O G YPhD student currently supervised by Simon Keay and basedat the Universidad de Sevilla.Simon Keay and Sophie Hay made an exploratory trip toLeptis Magna (Libya) in May 2008, with a view toundertaking a geophysical survey in 2008 or 2009 inconjunction with the Society for Libyan Studies, on thegrounds of Leptis’s close commercial links and topographicsimilarities to Portus.OTHER FIELD PROJECTSA third five-week season of excavation was undertaken atFalacrinae, the birthplace of the Emperor Vespasian, as partof the project led by Dr Helen Patterson (Molly CottonFellow) and Professor Filippo Coarelli (Perugia). This worksaw the first season of excavation of a Roman villa that hasbeen the subject of geophysical survey by the BSR team(2007 and 2008). The excavation successfully identifiedvarious parts of this large complex, and focused inparticular on the important late antique levels. Concurrently,excavation continued at the site of the vicus of Falacrinae,where a further two houses were identified. The fieldwork isfunded by the Comune di Cittareale, the VI ComunitàMontana and the Provincia di Rieti, with the collaborationof the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per il Lazio(Dott.ssa Giovanna Alvino).BSR staff were also involved in a number of otherarchaeological projects. Collaborative projects included theexcavations at Villa Magna (Dr Elizabeth Fentress,Pennsylvania and UCL), those of Dr Roman Roth(Cambridge) for the first season of excavations at the site ofCapena, and topographical survey at the Roman town ofGrotte di Castro (Bolsena, Lazio) directed by Dr SimonStoddart (Cambridge) and Dr Gabriele Cifani (Roma Tre).GEOPHYSICSBSR and APSS staff have continued undertaking researchprojects elsewhere in Italy, and contributing towards theirpublication. Impressive results came from continuing workat the Villa of Marcus Aurelius at Villa Magna (Anagni,Lazio), in conjunction with Elizabeth Fentress, revealingimportant new details of the layout of this importantcomplex. The magnetometry work at the Latin town ofGabii (Lazio), undertaken on behalf of Dr Nicola Terrenato(Michigan) in 2007 and 2008, has covered approximately 36hectares of the town, successfully mapping previouslyunknown areas and producing important results. The teamalso undertook a further season of geophysical survey atPotentia (Marche) within the Potenza Valley Survey, directedby Professor Frank Vermeulen (Ghent) (October 2007),providing clear evidence for a continuation of the streetgrid, the city wall to the north and, possibly, a theatre. Italso completed a very successful first season of survey atthe Etruscan Adriatic port of Spina (Emilia Romagna), in aproject directed by Dr Vedia Izzet (Southampton) andProfessor Christoph Reusser (Regensburg), uncoveringsome sixteen hectares of an orthogonally plannedportscape. Last, but not least, 2007 saw the completion ofthe joint research programme of geophysical survey atCalatia by the BSR, the Soprintendenza per i BeniArcheologici per le Province di Napoli e Caserta and theComune di Maddaloni.In line with BSR extending its remit beyond Italy into thewestern Mediterranean at large, a first season of geophysicalsurvey was undertaken at the Roman town of Doclea,Montenegro. A two-week preliminary survey was conductedon behalf of the Museum of Podgorica as part of its NewAncient Doclea project, commissioned and financed by theCouncil of the city of Podgorica and undertaken inconjunction with the Università di Urbino (Professor SergioRinaldi Tufi). The magnetometry survey successfullyrecorded previously unknown structures across the site,thereby making a first contribution to a major re-appraisalof this key site. Sophie Hay, Stephen Kay and Leonie Pettpresented the results at the 42 nd Parallel conference in Bariorganised by the Regione as part of an internationalcollaborative agreement with the Montenegran government.23

A R C H A E O L O G YThe team also undertook a three-week magnetometrysurvey at the site of Amara West in Sudan, for a project runby Dr Neal Spencer of the Department of Ancient Egyptand Sudan at the British Museum, with the assistance of theNational Corporation of Antiquities and Museums ofSudan, producing some outstanding images of a Pharaonicfortress.CONFERENCESIn May 2008 Simon Keay gave a keynote paper at theinternational colloquium Changing landscapes. The impact ofRoman towns in the western Mediterranean organised by theUniversidade de Evora, in which he made comparisonsbetween Tiber valley towns studied by means of geophysicsand those similarly studied in the Guadalquivir valley. Healso gave a paper at the conference‘Quell’ansia di voler tuttodire’ di Andrea Carandini per i suoisettanta anni at the Università diRoma, ‘La Sapienza’ in June2008, in which he argued for theimportance of geophysicalsurvey in the analysis of urbanand rural landscapes. In JanuaryHelen Patterson and StephenKay participated in the workshopArcheologia dei paesaggi, organisedby the Reale Istituto Neerlandesea Roma, and discussed comparativeissues in landscapearchaeology based upon theresults of the British School’sTiber Valley Project. In late 2007the BSR hosted the first day ofthe annual Lazio e Sabinaconference, organised by the24

A R C H A E O L O G YPrevious page, top right: Geophysicalsurvey at Amara West, SudanPrevious page, bottom left: Resultsfrom geophysical survey at AmaraWestLeft: Aerial view of excavations atPortusBelow: Research assistants LeoniePett and Greg Tucker in circularstructure excavated at PortusSoprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per il Lazio, duringwhich Helen Patterson presented the results of the thirdseason of the BSR’s excavations at the site of Falacrinae.The BSR also hosted a conference on Roman concrete —Building Roma Aeterna — in March 2008, organised by DrRobert Hohlfelder.STAFFIn September, Rose Ferraby (Geophysical ResearchAssistant) left the School after two years to undertake aMasters at the University of Edinburgh. Her place wastemporarily filled by Rob Fry (Reading) and then, fromMarch 2008, by Giles Richardson, a Masters graduate inMaritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton.Simon KeayResearch Professor in Archaeology25

FACULTY OF A RCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND L ETTERSThe Faculty’s size and scope have increased during thisyear as a result of its reintegration with the School’sPublications Advisory Committee. With a plannedmembership of fifteen, this expansion has brought wideracademic expertise to the Faculty’s deliberations over theaward of fellowships and scholarships at its spring meeting,while the addition of an autumn meeting will enable thecommittee to play a greater role in advising the School onits academic and archaeological policies, in monitoringongoing work by fellows and scholars, and in helpingformulate publication plans. This last area, however,remains in the ambit of the Chair of Publications (as well asof the Editor of the Papers, of course), who, like the Chairof Archaeological Fieldwork, now operates from within theFaculty. One practical benefit of this positive reorganisationis that School staff are required for one less meeting eachyear in London. The new colleagues from the PublicationsAdvisory Committee were welcomed at the March meetingof the Faculty, at which occasion departing members DavidAtkinson and Maria Wyke were also warmly thanked for alltheir work on the School’s behalf.At its March meeting the Faculty worked through anotherlarge set of applications for fellowships, scholarshipsand awards. It is gratifying to find that the School’sacademic reputation continues to make it so sought-after alocation for many of the best eligible students and scholarsworking within its fields.From 2008 the School will also host the new GilesWorsley Travel Fellowship, founded in memory of theBritish architectural historian and writer who died aged 44in 2006. Since the Fellowship is open to either anarchitectural historian or an architect, it represents awelcome collaboration with the Faculty of the Fine Arts,whose Chair was consulted on the applications received inthe first round. The Royal Institute of British Architectswas also represented, along with Giles Worsley’s family, atthe selection meeting. In this, as in all of the proceedingsdescribed above, I have continual reason to be thankful forthe calm and well-organised administration of the School’sRegistrar in London, Gill Clark, as well as to the Directorand his colleagues in Rome.The activities of the scholars and fellows who have beenin residence at the School during 2007–8 are detailedelsewhere in this Annual Report, as are the many events thatfall under the umbrella of Faculty interest. I should like,however, to mention one event in which I had personalinvolvement. This was the conference staged by Sue Russellin February 2008 entitled Before and after Palladio’s Rome:antiquarianism from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Linked asit was to a fine exhibition (in the Sainsbury Lecture Theatrefoyer) of works related to the topic, selected by ValerieScott from the School’s rare books collection, this conferenceseemed a model of what the School can achieve. Itwas also a fitting tribute in the 500 thanniversary year ofPalladio’s birth, drawing a number of notable persons fromother national institutes in Rome into its audience. On thewarm, sunny, morning following the event, the speakers(who came from six different countries) were invited toconduct a small symposium on the architecture anddecorative programme of Pirro Ligorio’s Casino of Pius IVin the Vatican Gardens — though they were regrettably notinvited to participate in the luncheon being laid out in theCasino during their visit for a group of fortunate Cardinals!Frank SalmonChair, Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters26

F INE A RTS AWARDSAbbey Fellows in PaintingSpartacus ChetwyndCatrin HuberMarta MarcéAbbey Scholar in PaintingAnthony FarouxArts Council England Helen Chadwick FellowJonathan AllenArts Council of Northern Ireland FellowCian DonnellyAustralia Council ResidentsEleanor and James AveryAmanda MarburgJennifer MarshallLeslie MatthewsDerek Hill Foundation Scholar in PortraitureNadia HebsonRome Fellow in Landscape ArchitectureHarriet HarrissRome Scholar in ArchitecturePrisca ThielmannSainsbury Scholars in Painting and SculptureAisling HedgecockJohn WalterSargant Fellow in Curatorial and Critical StudiesGordon BurnWingate Rome ScholarLindsay SeersF INE A RTS S CHOLARS’ ACTIVITIESThis year saw Fine Arts scholars busy with anunprecedented number of individual and groupactivities, at the School and elsewhere. The year was alsomarked by the wider range of countries from which FineArts scholars came, including Germany with Catrin Huberand Prisca Thielmann, France with Anthony Faroux, andSpain with Marta Marcé.Three evenings of short illustrated talks took place inOctober 2007, January and May 2008. Fine Arts scholarsintroduced themselves and their practice to the otherscholars, residents and BSR staff.The first exhibition at the School, Party at the AmericanAcademy, opened on 14 December 2007 (until 22 December).It brought together in a communal project all the residentartists, Spartacus Chetwynd, Cian Donnelly, AnthonyFaroux, Aisling Hedgecock, Leslie Matthews, Lindsay Seers,and John Walter as well as the architects Harriet Harriss andPrisca Thielmann. Works by Colin Langridge (AustraliaCouncil Resident, July–September 2007) were also included.The exhibition reused elements of previous shows — FutureSystems (Architecture programme), and The Secret Public(Contemporary Arts Programme). The opening night alsosaw a well-attended public performance by The Order of theGolden Ghost, a choir consisting of Fine Arts and Humanitiesscholars (and members of staff) performing songs written,arranged and conducted by Cian Donnelly.The second scholars’ exhibition, The Director’s Apartment(13–22 March 2008), continued the collaborative approachand comprised paintings, drawings, sculptures, assemblagesand installations, by Jonathan Allen, Gordon Burn, CianDonnelly, Anthony Faroux, Nadia Hebson, AislingHedgecock, Jennifer Marshall, Prisca Thielmann and JohnWalter. On the opening night, a new line-up of The Order ofthe Golden Ghost performed in the small ‘apartment’ thatoccupied one-third of the overall space of the Gallery.The end-of-year Fine Arts exhibition opened on 13 June(until 21 June). Entitled Tutti Frutti, it presented works byJames and Eleanor Avery, Cian Donnelly, Anthony Faroux,27

Top left: Bat Opera, 2007, by Spartacus Chetwynd (Abbey Fellow in Painting) Top right: Fountain I, 2008, by Jennifer Marshall (Australia CouncilResident) Bottom right: Morte a Roma, 2007, by Harriet Harriss (Rome Fellow in Landscape Architecture)Aisling Hedgecock, Catrin Huber,Marta Marcé, Prisca Thielmann andJohn Walter. The exhibition openingincluded distribution of ‘tutti-frutti’ icecream(donated by the renownedGelateria dei Gracchi), and a finalperformance by The Order of the GoldenGhost.Reaction to this year’s singing choirs,bizarre titles, and the overlapping andmixing of works by different peoplewas certainly very positive.External Exhibitions and EventsIn October 2007, Aisling Hedgecockparticipated in Roma Design+, anannual event that includes Italian andforeign architects, designers and artists.In late April 2008, she conceived anddirected The Hula-Gloop Experiment,which was performed throughout thestreets and piazzas of Rome on 2528

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 SAbove left: Intercision: Lozenges, 2008,by John Walter (Sainsbury Scholar inPainting and Sculpture)Above right: The Order of the GoldenGhost, 2007, by Cian Donnelly (ArtsCouncil of Northern Ireland Fellow)Below left: The Director’s Apartment,2008. Left to right, works by GordonBurn (Sargant Fellow in Curatorialand Critical Studies), Jonathan Allen(Arts Council England HelenChadwick Fellow), AislingHedgecock (Sainsbury Scholar inPainting and Sculpture), NadiaHebson (Derek Hill FoundationScholar in Portraiture), PriscaThielmann (Rome Scholar inArchitecture), Cian Donnelly (ArtsCouncil of Northern Ireland Fellow)29

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 SApril, and further extended from 26 April to 4 May atRialtoSantambrogio.Building on the success of the exhibition Transiti in theSpazio Cultura of Æmilia Hotel (December 2006–January2007), a second show was planned by Marianna DiGiansante featuring BSR Fine Arts scholars. At the end ofNovember 2007, Cian Donnelly, Aisling Hedgecock,Lindsay Seers and Prisca Thielmann spent a long weekendin Bologna as guests of Æmilia Hotel. Lindsay and Priscareturned to Bologna in January for reconnaissance andfilming. This led to the exhibition Bologna Grand Tour: theBritish School at Rome that was inaugurated on 23 May atÆmilia Hotel Spazio Cultura (and lasted until 21 June).Alberto Tessore, a cultural promoter and organiser of20Eventi — Arte contemporanea in Sabina, now in its thirdyear, chose to invite Great Britain to participate in 2008(following France in 2006 and Germany in 2007). CristianaPerrella, curator of the Contemporary Arts Programme, puthim in touch with Richard Wentworth, Master of the RuskinSchool of Drawing and Fine Art at the University ofOxford. Fourteen young artists from the Ruskin came tothe Sabina to create works in response to outdoor andindoor spaces throughout four towns. Richard Wentworthhas a long relationship with the British School, and he iscurrently one of the selectors for the ACE Helen ChadwickFellowship. The British participation in 20Eventi08 extendedto Fine Arts scholars. In February and April 2008, CianDonnelly, Anthony Faroux, Aisling Hedgecock, MartaMarcé and Prisca Thielmann went on reconnaissance to theSabina. The resulting interventions were very different fromeach other, both in form and medium, but equally engagedin responding to the ‘spirit of place’.The collaborations between the BSR and the otherforeign academies in Rome continue to bear fruit. SharaWasserman (Arts Liaison Officer, German Academy) has,for the third year, devised and curated events that involveartists from various academies. In October 2007, incollaboration with the Fondazione Musica per Roma, sheorganised CinemArt at the Auditorium Parco della Musica,involving six artists from five academies, with Lindsay Seersrepresenting the BSR. In May 2008, she curated AcademyArchitects at the Acquario at Casa dell’Architettura, incollaboration with the Ordine degli Architetti di Roma eProvincia. Eleven architects from seven different countries(with Prisca Thielmann representing the BSR) presentedworks dealing with their study of different facets of Rome.Contacts between the British School and the GermanAcademy also led to the exhibition Germany–1, England–1,at the gallery of Temple University Rome in June 2008,bringing together two painters, Sainsbury Scholar JohnWalter and German Academy resident Elke Zauner.Finally, the sixth edition of Spazi Aperti was held at theRomanian Academy from 11 to 25 June. The exhibitionincluded the work of more than 50 artists from variousforeign academies and institutions in Rome, with James andEleanor Avery, Anthony Faroux, Catrin Huber and JohnWalter representing the BSR.Research StaffRome-based painter Alessandra Giacinti, former assistantto Italian master director Michelangelo Antonioni, workedas Fine Arts Research Assistant from October 2007. Sheproved reliable and helpful in all areas, including sourcingmaterials and other information for the artists, assisting insite visits, reconnaissance and public relations.Christine Zhu, an undergraduate student from RhodesCollege, Memphis, Tennessee, worked as Fine Arts Intern inMay–June 2008, notably for the exhibitions Bologna GrandTour: the British School at Rome in Bologna and Tutti Frutti atthe BSR.Jacopo BenciAssistant Director (Fine Arts)30

FACULTY OF THE F INE A RTSIt is always the case that the various artists and architectswho take up the opportunity of working at the Schoolover any academic year are representative of a wide rangeof ages, forms of expression, disciplines and passions. Thisyear the creative mix was added to by the piloting of a newSargant Fellowship in Curatorial and Critical Studies. Therecipient, Gordon Burn, who is an influential novelist andwriter on contemporary art and artists, brought a differentfocus and outlook to engaging with Rome, resulting insome thoughtful collaborative projects during the period ofhis stay.In addition to showcasing work in the groupexhibitions, organised three times a year by the AssistantDirector (Fine Arts), Jacopo Benci, the resident artistsand architects contributed to a lively range of externalprojects with academies and institutions elsewhere inRome and other Italian cities. These creative initiativesincluded 20Eventi08 — Arte contemporanea in Sabina, a jointproject involving artist Richard Wentworth and theRuskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University ofOxford, together with five artists from the School whomade work for indoor and outdoor spaces in townsthroughout the Sabina region.The Contemporary Arts Programme, curated byCristiana Perrella, presented a number of projects byBritish artists; As Simple As Your Life Used To Be, anexhibition by Chris Evans, a talk by Martin Creed and thepublication of a comprehensive book on the work of IanKiaer, who showed in the Gallery in 2006. A third series ofthe contemporary sound and music project, Tracks,attracted a broad audience from Rome and beyond.Marina Engel has continued to organise interesting talksby influential architects; Future Systems and David Adjayepresented the final two talks in a series looking at thedesign of art spaces. The Rome-based practice Ma0 hasstarted off a new cycle of events London–Rome: Work inProcess, examining architects’ relationships to Rome andLondon.A three-month fellowship for mid-career artists workingin lens-based media has been agreed with Photoworks,initially tenable in alternate years until 2012–13. However,the Wingate Foundation regrettably has decided not tocontinue funding for the Wingate Rome Scholarshipbeyond the coming year. This five- or six-month residency,open to artists working in any media, has been oftremendous value over the ten years for which we receivedfunding, providing important opportunities to artists atdifferent stages of their careers.There have been many notable successes for pastresident artists this year, including Mark Wallinger, who wasawarded the 2007 Turner Prize; and Sigrid Holmwood,Daniel Silver, Marta Marcé, Eamon O’Kane and MillyThompson have all had recent solo exhibitions or completedpublic art projects.Recognising both the challenges ahead and the pastachievements within the Fine Arts programme (sensu lato), aworking group comprising members of the Faculty and ofCouncil has been brought together to suggest ways ofarticulating a strong and coherent vision for the future. Theaim of the process is to ensure a strong residency, exhibitionsand events programme that will attract futuresustainable funding and continue to develop the School’sreputation and profile within Great Britain and Italy.Jenni LomaxChair, Faculty of the Fine Arts31

C ONTEMPORARY A RTS P ROGRAMMEAnother very intense year has gone by, my tenth asCurator of the Contemporary Arts Programme: twoexhibitions and many events, talks, live performances andbook presentations have taken place.From 14 November to 7 December the CAP presentedThe Secret Public: the Last Days of the British Underground1978–1988. A Video Library, curated by Michael Bracewell,Stefan Kalmár and Ian White, showing moving image workfrom the exhibition of the same name that was organisedearlier in 2007 by the Kunstverein Munich and also shownat the ICA in London. Disquieting, playful and intenselyurban, the exhibition was rooted in the political landscapeof the 80s and examined the dark flowering of creativitythat took shape in the UK between 1978 and 1988. Itjuxtaposed some of the extraordinary art works from ahistory that has remained undocumented as fashion, dance,burlesque, music, video and film emerged as dominantaesthetics and activities.To coincide with the opening of the exhibition, aprogramme of screenings and talks was presented in theSainsbury Lecture Theatre every Thursday night from 9 to11 p.m. It featured: Cosey Fanni Tutti in conversation withcritic Daniela Cascella, introducing the screening of a videoprogramme about Throbbing Gristle; a video programmeabout Scratch Video; and a panel discussion of‘Underground culture in Italy in the 80s’.On 21 January the book about British artist Ian Kiaer,published in May 2007 following his November 2005exhibition at the BSR, was launched. The book collectsKiaer’s main art projects, with an introduction by CristianaPerrella, text by Mark Godfrey and an interview with theartist by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith.From 8 February to 8 March the CAP presented ChrisEvans’s exhibition As Simple As Your Life Used To Be, thelatest commission in the Viva Roma! project. Fromconversations with four influential politicians (GiulioAndreotti, Giulio Caradonna, Emanuele Macaluso, OscarMammì) whose careers have spanned the history of theItalian republic, Evans produced a series of allegoricalimages and maquettes. All the works, along with the shortfilm that completed the show, were produced under theumbrella of CAP.On 12 February, as part of the Tracks series, curated byDaniela Cascella for the CAP, a concert by Little Annie(voice) and Paul Wallfisch (piano) was held in the LectureTheatre.On 27 May Martin Creed was back at the BSR — after asolo show in 1997 and an installation for the façade in 2003— with a talk/performance. The event coincided withCreed’s first solo show at the Lorcan O’Neill Gallery inRome.Finally, on 8 July, the CAP closed the 2007–8 year with abook presentation: Film d’artista, by Maria Rosa Sossai,considers the productive relationship between art andcinema, a topic that has often been explored by our exhibitionprogramme over the course of the years.All that was delivered this year would not have beenpossible without the invaluable work of Assistant CuratorMaria Cristina Giusti, who sadly left in March 2008 afterfour years of collaboration. A big thank you to her, and awelcome to Alessandra Troncone, who started work inApril as part-time voluntary assistant to the programme.An intense campaign of fundraising, addressed to bothinstitutional and private sponsors, has been launched in thelight of the financial restraints for 2008–9. Applications tothe Regione Lazio, the Provincia di Roma and the HenryMoore Foundation were made to support specific projects(Richard Wentworth’s installation in the entrance hall,Tracks3 — the music programme of the CAP, and theproduction of Kutlug Ataman’s new work for Viva Roma! in2009), while contact with Mini Cooper was established.Professional fundraisers have been consulted with a view toincreasing corporate sponsorship.Cristiana PerrellaCurator, Contemporary Arts Programme32

C O N T E M P O R A R Y A R T S P R O G R A M M ETop left: Little Annie signing her CD forCristiana Perrella after the gig, withDaniela Cascella in the backgroundTop right: Installation shot of The SecretPublic: the Last Days of the BritishUnderground 1978–1988. A Video LibraryBelow left: Installation shot of ChrisEvans’s exhibition, As Simple As Your LifeUsed To Be33

P UBLICATIONS‘ short review cannot do justice to the richA documentation, detailed explanations, and carefulanalysis presented in this book, which is an importantcontribution in itself and is bound to stimulate morescholarship and further investigations’, Journal of RomanStudies 97 (2007); ‘… the book provides a valuable synthesisof what is currently known about Portus, and it has broadersignificance for this reason. It is likely to be consulted andcited by scholars with an interest in the imperial harbor foryears to come’, Journal of Field Archaeology 32 (2007); ‘dansune zone aussi menacée par les développements urbains,aéroportuaires et touristiques, la nouvelle cartearchéologique dressée constitue aussi un instrument depremière importance dans la gestion et la sauvegarde dupatrimoine … Saluons le remarquable travail d’équipe qui apu gérer efficacement l’urgence et les difficultés techniquespour un résultat original et novateur sur le plan historique’,L’Antiquité Classique 76 (2007); ‘Despite its weight, thisbook is reader-friendly. The paired full-page illustrationsand interpretations are an inspired idea, all the evidence ismade available, and the contributions of Italian colleaguesare valuable. It is an opulent production, well written andproduced, worthy of a splendid achievement’, Antiquity 80(315) (2008); ‘This richly illustrated text is a paradigm forhow to conduct a well-funded, thorough, unobtrusivegeophysical survey. It provides a vital new compendiumabout the function and design of Rome’s artificial harborand its relationship to Imperial maritime life … These andother carefully informed conjectures afford the scholarlyworld fresh insights into the complexity of Portus. Rome’sgreat harbor complex hides many secrets, but thanks tothis meticulous publication, more have now beenrevealed’, American Journal of Archaeology 112 (2008).Such has been the reception of Portus: an ArchaeologicalSurvey of the Port of Imperial Rome, by Simon Keay, MartinMillett, Lidia Paroli and Kristian Strutt, published by theBSR in 2005. Its popularity has been such that this yearwe had to reprint, in order to satisfy demand.Papers of the British School at Rome 75 (2007) waspublished in November. It contains a range of papers,including contributions on the archaeological survey ofthe Faliscan settlement at Vignale, Falerii Veteres (by SimonKeay and Martin Millett and their collaborators, a projectthat forms part of the BSR’s Tiber Valley Project), on thelocation of the Porta Romanula (by Peter Wiseman, RomeScholar 1961–2, Balsdon Fellow 1984–5, and Chair of theSchool’s Council 2002–7), on Pirro Ligorio, Cassiano DalPozzo and the Republic of Letters (by Susan Russell, theSchool’s current Assistant Director), and on French policyin Italy and the Jesuits, 1607–38 (by Anthony Wright,Rome Scholar 1969–71).The 2008 volume (vol. 76), which is currently inproduction, will be the first one produced under theEditorship of Josephine Crawley Quinn. It will also have anew design, which we hope will prove more attractiveand, at the same time, easier for the reader.This year has also seen the merger of the PublicationsAdvisory Committee with the Faculty of Archaeology,History and Letters. This will allow a more efficient andclear link between the research that the School issupporting and the publications programme. Bryan Ward-Perkins remains as Chair of Publications within theFaculty, and all members agreed to become members ofthe Faculty. Thus academic validation for the formalacademic publications of the School now rests with theFaculty of Archaeology, History and Letters.Gill ClarkPublications ManagerA list of publications in print and details of how to order books appear onpages 52–3. Any enquiries should be addressed to the School’s London office.34

L IBRARY AND A RCHIVEAll Library and Archive publications, exhibitions, specialprojects and events are funded externally, and fundraisingis now one of the Librarian’s main activities. Asreported previously, 2006–7 was a very successful year inthis respect, also thanks to close collaboration between JillPellew, Chair of Development, and the Librarian. It is apleasure to report on the results of the past year.The second project funded by the Getty Foundation tocatalogue and organise part of the J.B. Ward-Perkinsphotographic collection (some 15,000 images) in the BSRPhotographic Archive began in September 2007. All theimages will also be digitised and made available on theinternet. Three sections have been selected and thecataloguing of the 5,450 images of archaeological sites inLibya is now complete. We are collaborating with ProfessorCharlotte Roueché, King’s College, London, and theUniversity of Chapel Hill on their project to publish theInscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRC) on the web, whichwill be linked to our photographs. The first IRC workshopwas held at the BSR in February 2008 and the project waspresented to Italian, American and Polish archaeologicalmissions working in Libya. The response was enthusiastic.Professor Roueché has also secured funding to publishthe BSR publication Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania on theweb, which will also be linked to our photographs. Thisforms part of a collaborative project between the Centre forComputing in the Humanities at King’s College, London,and New York University, who were among the first toreceive a new Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grantawarded by the National Endowment for the Humanitiesand the Joint Information Systems Committee — the BSRArchive will be a partner in this project.Work has now begun on the photographs relating to wardamage and the South Etruria Survey. Ward-Perkins, asLieutenant-Colonel in the British army, led the Sub-Commission of the Allied Government for Monuments andFine Arts, set up to document damage to monumentscaused by bombing throughout Italy during World War II,and he secured a set of 1,250 photographs for the BSR. TheSouth Etruria Survey, the first archaeological survey in Italy,carried out by Ward-Perkins in the 1950s and 60s, isrecorded in over 8,000 photographs and continued ThomasAshby’s pioneering study of the topography andarchaeology of the Roman Campagna.The John R. Murray Charitable Trust awarded theLibrary a very generous grant for the restoration andconservation of volumes in the Rare Book collection and tocomplete the restoration of Thomas Ashby’s photographalbums. This year, three of the remaining ten photographalbums have been restored by Fotocartarestauri in SanCasciano dei Bagni near Siena, who specialise in theconservation of photographs. Work on the Rare Bookcollection by our conservator, Luigina Antonazzo ofLaboratorio Aelle, has progressed very successfully, and therefurbishing of 389 volumes has been carried out this year.We have reported on the progress of our retrospectiveconversion project for many years, and a final fundraisingeffort is needed to complete this, as there are now only threesections left to catalogue. This year we have completed theItalian medieval and Renaissance history section, and the4,000 records are now available on the URBS catalogue.Work has begun on the section that includes ecclesiasticaland non-Italian history. Beatrice Gelosia, Deputy Librarian,has completed cataloguing all periodicals, both current and‘deceased’ (a total of 1,150 titles) onto the URBS system, aswell as all articles from PBSR from vol. 1 to the latest issue.Prof. David Marshall, University of Melbourne, securedfunding from the Australian Research Council for a onemonthpilot project successfully completed in January 2008.Caterina Sciacca, a postgraduate student from Melbourne,studied the Library’s 112 miscellaneous prints and engravings(sixteenth–nineteenth centuries) from the Thomas Ashbycollection which were then added to the URBS catalogue bythe Deputy Librarian and digitised by the Centro diFotoriproduzione, Legatoria e Restauro degli Archivi di Stato.These images will soon be available on the internet.35

L I B R A R Y A N D A R C H I V EEven though the American Academy Library reopened onschedule in September 2007, the number of outside readershas continued to increase during the year, reaching amaximum of 57 readers in one day, due to the ongoing closureof the Vatican Library, the German Archaeological Instituteand the Hertziana. Thanks to the sympathetic support ofDavid Packard, through the Packard Humanities Institute, theLibrary has been able to employ extra staff for the next threeyears to extend the opening hours to outside readers until 6.45p.m. and to re-shelve books and assist with readers’enquiries. We are particularly grateful for this support which isessential if the Library is to continue functioning efficiently.The Library lent 50 early guides to Rome and fourengravings from the Rare Book collection to the Arcidiocesidi Brindisi for an exhibition, Viaggi di pellegrinaggio nei testi enelle incisioni della British School at Rome, which opened onthe occasion of the Pope’s visit. The exhibition was curatedby Luigina Antonazzo (BSR conservator) and ProfessorGiacomo Carito and thanks are due to the Arcidiocesi forthe generous donation for further restoration work on theRare Book collection.Two photographic exhibitions have been organised bythe Library and Archive staff this year. On 4 October 2007the fifth exhibition of Thomas Ashby’s photographsopened. The title, I giganti dell’acqua, refers to his images ofRoman aqueducts in Lazio — the subject of the exhibition.Over 250 people came to the opening and the response wasvery positive. Both the catalogue and the exhibition, whichwas shown at the Expo in Zaragoza, Spain in July 2008, werefinanced by the Regione Lazio, Assessorato Cultura,Spettacolo e Sport. The Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali ofthe Comune di Roma and the Istituto Centrale per ilCatalogo e la Documentazione participated in the project.The exhibition Itinerari abruzzesi: archeologia, arte e folklorenelle fotografie di Thomas Ashby (1901–1923) opened on 23April 2008. The subjects of these images — processions,festivals, markets, costumes and landscapes — prove thatAshby’s interests were not limited to archaeology. TheAbove: Sulmona, market c. 1909, a photograph by Thomas Ashbyexhibition was then shown at the Società GeograficaItaliana in the Villa Celimontana in Rome, as part of anevent entitled Viaggio nelle regioni d’Italia: l’Abruzzo. Anumber of Comuni in Abruzzo have already expressedinterest in hosting the exhibition in the future.We are delighted to report that our Archivist, AlessandraGiovenco, was offered a prestigious one-month residency inAugust 2007 on the Advanced Residency Program of theGeorge Eastman House, Rochester (NY), the world’sleading institution for the conservation of photographs. Shevisited the Library of Congress and attended a five-dayseminar on Preserving Photographs in a Digital World.This year thanks and appreciation must go to the team,which includes permanent members of Library and Archivestaff, project collaborators, cataloguers, conservators, bookre-shelvers and all who have worked with commitment andenthusiasm to achieve these excellent results.Valerie ScottLibrarian36

P UBLICATIONS AND E XHIBITIONS BY S TAFFJacopo Benci2007 Jacopo Benci. Faraway and Luminous. London, BritishSchool at Rome.2007 Itinerari senza io, TraLeVolte, Rome.2007 La memoria del futuro, Calabria Film Festival, Cosenza.2007 Expotrastiendas 2007, Centro de Exposiciones de laCiudad, Buenos Aires.2008 ‘Michelangelo’s Rome: towards an iconology ofL’Eclisse’, in R. Wrigley (ed.), Cinematic Rome: 75–94.Leicester, Troubador.2008 Jacopo Benci. L’infraordinario, TraLeVolte, Rome.2008 Basta!, Gutleut15, Frankfurt.2008 Spazi Aperti 6, Romanian Academy, Rome.2008 In/Out, Nuovo Cinema Aquila, Rome.2008 Artisti uniti per Rosso Malpelo, Centro PolifunzionaleComunale, Nissoria.Robert Coates-Stephens2007 ‘The reuse of ancient statuary in late antique Romeand the end of the statue habit’, in F.A. Bauer and C.Witschel (eds), Statuen in der Spätantike (Spätantike —Frühes Christentum — Byzanz. Kunst im ErstenJahrtausend. Reihe B: Studien und Perspektiven 23):171–87. Wiesbaden, Reichert.2007 ‘S. Saba and the xenodochium de via Nova’, in Rivistadi Archeologia Cristiana 83: 223–56.David Forgacs2007 ‘Michelangelo Antonioni’, in P. Bertetto (ed.), Action!How Great Filmmakers Direct Actors: 201–13. Rome,minimum fax (simultaneously published in Italianlanguageedition, Azione! Come i grandi registi dirigono gliattori).2008 ‘Gramsci’s notion of the ‘popular’ in Italy and Britain:a tale of two cultures’, in M. Pfister and R. Hertel(eds), Performing National Identity: Anglo-Italian CulturalTransactions: 171–89. Amsterdam and New York,Rodopi.2008 ‘Modernisierungsängste: die Italienische Gesellschaftund die Medien in den 1960er Jahren’, in T. Koebnerand I. Schenk (eds), Das Goldene Zeitalter des ItalienischenFilms: die 1960er Jahre: 21–43. Munich, Text+Kritik.Simon Keay2007 ‘Reflections on the epigraphy of Roman Celti’, in M.Mayer, G. Baratta and A. Guzmán (eds), XIICongressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae.Provinciae Imperii Romani. Inscriptionibus Descriptae.Barcelona, 3–8 Septembris 2002 (Monografies de la SeccióHistórico Arqueológica X): 763–72. Barcelona, Institutd’Estudis Catalans.2008 with M. Millett and K. Strutt, ‘Recent archaeologicalsurvey at Portus’, in R. Hohlfelder (ed.), The MaritimeWorld of Ancient Rome: 97–104. Michigan, MichiganUniversity Press.Cristiana Perrella2008 Graciela Iturbide, El baño de Frida. Rome, Punctum.Susan Russell2007 ‘Rape, ritual and the responsible citizen: the Sala dellastoria romana at Palazzo Pamphilj in Rome’, in Storiadell’Arte 118 (n.s. 18): 57–72.2007 ‘Pirro Ligorio, Cassiano dal Pozzo and the Republicof Letters’, in Papers of the British School at Rome 75:239–74.2007 Exhibition review: Gone to meet the south. Thelandscapes of Herman van Swanevelt, Stadsmuseum,Woerden (7 April–8 July), in Print Quarterly 24. 4:431–2.2007 ‘Sant’Agnese in Agone auf der Piazza Navona’, in C.Strunck (ed.), Rom: Meisterwerke der Baukunst von derAntike bis Heute: Festgabe für Elisabeth Kieven: 382–8.Petersberg, Imhof.2008 ‘A taste for landscape: Innocent X Pamphilj andPalazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona’, in J. Burke and37

P U B L I C A T I O N S A N D E X H I B I T I O N S B Y S T A F FM. Bury (eds), Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome:155–70. Aldershot, Ashgate.Andrew Wallace-Hadrill2007 ‘Conservation in the shadow of Vesuvius’, in ICON:the Preservation Quarterly of the World Monuments Fund 1:22–9.2007 ‘Vivre dans une petite ville: de Pompéi à Bliesbruck’,in J.P. Petit and S. Santoro (eds), Vivre en Europeromaine. De Pompéi à Bliesbruck-Reinheim: 61–8. Paris,Editions Errance.2008 ‘Housing the dead: the tomb as house in RomanItaly’, in L. Brink and D. Green (eds), Commemoratingthe Dead. Texts and Artifacts in Context: 39–77. Berlinand New York, de Gruyter.2008 ‘Introduction: the Herculaneum ConservationProject’, in special edition of Conservation andManagement of Archaeological Sites 8.4: 187–91.2008 with M.P. Guidobaldi, D. Camardo and V. Moesch,‘Le ricerche archeologiche nell’ambito dell’HerculaneumConservation Project’, in P.G. Guzzo and M.P.Guidobaldi (eds), Nuove ricerche archeologiche nell’areavesuviana (scavi 2003–2006) (Atti del convegnointernazionale, Roma, 1–3 febbraio 2007): 409–24. Rome,‘L’Erma’ di Bretschneider.Herculaneum Conservation Project2007 D. Camardo, ‘On site insights’, in Current WorldArchaeology 29: 66.2007 J. Thompson, ‘Engagement in public–privatepartnerships for cultural heritage: the case ofHerculaneum, Italy’, in ICCROM (ed.), Privatisationand Cultural Heritage: 120–34. Rome, ICCROM.2007 J. Thompson and S. Court, ‘Learning together:sharing conservation decisions with the HerculaneumConservation Project’, in R. Varoli-Piazza (ed.),Sharing Conservation Decisions: Lessons Learnt from anICCROM Course: 154–60. Rome, ICCROM.2008 Special edition of Conservation and Management ofArchaeological Sites 8.4:J. Thompson, ‘Conservation and managementchallenges in a public-private partnership for a largearchaeological site (Herculaneum, Italy)’, 192–205.D. Camardo, ‘Archaeology and conservation atHerculaneum: from the Maiuri campaign to theHerculaneum Conservation Project’, 206–15.P. Pesaresi and M. Martelli Castaldi, ‘Conservationmeasures for an archaeological site at risk(Herculaneum, Italy): from emergency tomaintenance’, 215–36.P. Pesaresi and G. Rizzi, ‘New and existing forms ofprotective shelter at Herculaneum: towardsimproving the continuous care of the site’, 237–52.2008 A. Cinque and G. Irollo, ‘La paleogeografia dell’anticaHerculaneum e le fluttazioni, di orgine bradisismica,della sua linea di costa’, in P.G. Guzzo andM.P. Guidobaldi (eds), Nuove ricerche archeologichenell’area vesuviana (scavi 2003–2006) (Atti del convegnointernazionale Roma, 1–3 febbraio 2007): 425–38.Rome, ‘L’Erma’ di Bretschneider.2008 S. Court, ‘Herculaneum’s Amazon: new archaeologicalresults from a conservation project’, inTeaching History 42: 1, 34–5.Camerone2008 S. Hay, ‘Dati dalle prospezioni magnetometriche’, inM. Medri (ed.), Sentinum. Ricerche in corso I: 60–7.Rome, ‘L’Erma’ di Bretschneider.38

S TAFFCore StaffDirectorAssistant DirectorResearch Professor in ArchaeologyResearch Professor inModern StudiesCary FellowMolly Cotton FellowProfessor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill,OBE MA DPhil FSASusan Russell, MA PhDAssistant Director (Fine Arts) Jacopo Benci #Professor Simon Keay, BA PhD FSAProfessor David Forgacs, BA PhDRobert Coates-Stephens, BA PhDHelen Patterson, BA PhDCurator, Contemporary ArtsProgramme Cristiana Perrella, MA #LibrarianValerie Scott, BADeputy LibrarianBeatrice GelosiaLibrary Assistants Francesca De Riso, BA #Francesca DeliArchivist Alessandra Giovenco, BA #Registrar & Publications Manager Gill Clark, BA PhDAdministrative Assistant Sarah Ciacci, MA # *Director’s AssistantEleanor Murkett, MASchool SecretaryMaria Pia MalvezziHostel SupervisorGeraldine WellingtonHon. Secretary, Subscribers Jo Wallace-Hadrill, MA #BursarAlvise Di Giulio, BADomestic BursarRenato ParenteAccounts Clerk Isabella Gelosia #MaintenanceFulvio AstolfiCleanersDonatella AstolfiAlba CorattiMarisa ScarsellaCooksTechnical Assistant & WaiterWaiters/PortersGiuseppe ParenteDharma WijesiriwardanaGiuseppe PellegrinoAntonio PalmieriRino Ramazzotti #Academic Project StaffPortus Project / Archaeological SurveyResearch AssistantsRoberta Cascino, MAElizabeth De Gaetano, MScGiles Richardson, MA°Cinzia Filippone, MARobert Fry, BA°*Stephen Kay, MScLeonie Pett, MAArchaeological IllustratorSally Cann, BAHerculaneum Conservation ProjectProject ManagerJane Thompson, MA DipArchResearch and OutreachCo-ordinatorSarah Court, MAInternational Centre for the Study of HerculaneumCentre ManagerChristian Biggi, MSt°WebsiteResearch AssistantsDirector’s ProjectsResearch AssistantsRaphael Helman, BArchMartina dalla Riva, BA°Aimee Forster, MAChristopher Siwicki, MAAssistant Director’s Projects (Humanities)Research AssistantRoberto Cobianchi, BA PhD*Architecture ProgrammeCuratorMarina Engel, MAContemporary Arts ProgrammeAssistant CuratorMaria Cristina Giusti, BA*AssistantAlessandra Troncone, BA°Fine Arts ProgrammeResearch AssistantInternPress and PublicityPress Officer________________# Part-time° Joined in 2007–8* Left in 2007–8Alessandra Giacinti, BFA°Christine ZhuRosanna Tripaldi, MA39

T RUSTEES’ REPORTStructure, Governance andManagementThe British School at Rome was founded in1901 and incorporated by Royal Charter in1912 (Supplemental Charter, 1995). It is aregistered charity, no. 314176. Thegoverning body of the School comprises thePresident, HRH Princess Alexandra, theHon. Lady Ogilvy, KG, GCVO, and theCouncil. The Director, Professor AndrewWallace-Hadrill, acts as the School’s ChiefExecutive, has the right of attendance at allmeetings of Council and its Subcommittees,and provides the secretariat from among theSchool staff.A list of all members of Council(Trustees) who have acted during the2007–2008 financial year appears below,together with details of the School’s financialadvisers, members of all Subcommittees, anda full list of members of staff.Under the terms of the Royal Charter,two Council members are to be appointedby the President of the British Academy andthe rest are appointed by the Council. Nofewer than seven members must be selectedfrom the fields of specialisation and workenshrined in the School’s objectives. Care istaken to secure a balance betweenspecialists in the Fine Arts and theHumanities and generalists with legal,financial and fundraising skills. Members ofCouncil serve for a term of five years,renewable for a maximum of a further fiveyears. Members of Council are normallyrequired to be under the age of 70 onelection. They are normally expected to befamiliar with the School and its work onappointment, and are invited to visit theSchool in Rome and to meet staff boththere and in London as part of an inductionprocess. Council meets three times a year.Council is advised on all matters offinance and personnel by the Finance andPersonnel Subcommittee, which consists ofthe Chair of Council, the Treasurer, and theChairs of all Subcommittees, and meetsnormally four times a year.Grants are awarded by Council on therecommendation of two specialist advisorycommittees, the Faculty of Archaeology,History and Letters and the Faculty of theFine Arts. Chairs of Faculties are appointedby Council, and must be members ofCouncil. Members of Faculties areappointed for a five-year term by Councilon the recommendation of the Faculties;they are chosen to represent the full rangeof specialist interests that fall within thechartered objectives of the School.Fellowships, scholarships and awards areadvertised once a year, and the Facultiesmeet once annually to consider applications,and to monitor reports by recipients ofawards. The awards process is administeredfrom the London office by the Registrar.Details of how to apply for awards togetherwith relevant forms are available on theSchool’s website.Council is advised on all academicpublications of the School by the Faculty ofArchaeology, History and Letters, under thechairmanship of the Chair of Publications.The Chair is appointed by Council, andmust be a member of Council.Council is advised on development andfundraising by the Chair of Development;the Chair is appointed by Council, and mustbe a member of Council..Risk ManagementCouncil has identified and reviewed themajor risks to which the School is exposedand considers that, to the extent that it isable, it has systems in place to mitigatethose risks. It reviews its risk assessment onan annual basis.Objectives, Activities and Plans forthe FutureThe objects of the School are set out in theSupplemental Royal Charter (1995) asfollows:(a) To promote the study in Italy ofarchaeology, history and letters, architecture,painting, sculpture, printmaking andother arts.(b) To establish and maintain in Rome ahostel for students attending the Schoolwho are studying arts, archaeology, historyand letters and who are of British orCommonwealth birth, education orresidence.(c) To establish and maintain studios andother buildings for the purposes of theSchool and their use by the students andother persons attending the School.(d) To pursue archaeological and otherresearches and publications in the subjectareas specified in (a) above.(e) To maintain in Rome a generallibrary of the arts, archaeology, history andletters.(f) To award Scholarships, Exhibitions,Bursaries, Research Grants and other formsof assistance to those of British orCommonwealth birth, education or residence,engaged in the study of the arts, archaeology,history or letters.40

T R U S T E E S ’ R E P O R TThe School’s mission statement andsummary statement of activities in pursuitof its objects are given on the opening pageof this Annual Report. The objectives forthe year, achievements and plans for thefuture are set out in detail above, in theDirector’s Report and in the reports onindividual activities that follow: theseconstitute an integral part of the formalTrustees’ Report.C OUNCILProfessor R. BurdettMr R. CooperProfessor S. FarthingMr M.N. Higgin (Hon. Treasurer)Mr T.D. LlewellynMs J. LomaxProfessor M.J. MillettMr A.R. NairneDr J.H. PellewSir Ivor Roberts (Chair from January2008)Dr F. SalmonMr B. Ward-PerkinsDr S. Walker°Professor M. WarnerProfessor C.J. WickhamProfessor T.P. Wiseman* (Chair toDecember 2007)The Chief Executive of the British Academyis invited to observe Council meetings.DirectorProfessor A. Wallace-HadrillFinance and Personnel SubcommitteeMr M.N. HigginMs J. LomaxDr J.H. PellewSir Ivor Roberts° (Chair from January 2008)Dr F. SalmonMr B. Ward-PerkinsProfessor T.P. Wiseman* (Chair toDecember 2007)Charity Number: 314176AuditorsHLB Vantis Audit plc82 St John StreetLondon EC1M 4JNAccountantsVantis Group Limited82 St John StreetLondon EC1M 4JNItalian Financial AdviserFragano & PartnersVia A. Gallonio 800161 RomeInvestment Managers and AdvisersCazenove Capital Management Limited12 MoorgateLondon EC2R 6DABankersNational Westminster Bank Plc186 Brompton RoadLondon SW3 1XJCredito EmilianoVia del Tritone 97–800187 RomeSan Paolo–IMIAgenzia 36, Via Civinini 5000144 Rome___________________° Joined during 2007–8* Left during 2007–841

F INANCIAL S TATEMENTSfor the year ended 31 March 2008FINANCIAL REVIEWThe financial statements should be read inconjunction with the reports on pages 3 to 36.The School’s normal activity, disclosedunder ‘unrestricted funds’ in the statement offinancial activities, ended the financial yearwith a surplus of £30,000 (2007 surplus of£10,000).Restricted income includes the majorgrants from the Packard Humanities Institute,principally to fund conservation work atHerculaneum, and grants from the GettyFoundation for Library projects. Themovements in restricted funds are disclosedin note 18.The fall in investment values in the currentyear resulted in a decrease in reserves of£125,000. Council may invest in any securitiesapproved by law for the investment of trust orcharitable monies, or such other securities asthe Council may from time to time approve.Council has appointed investment advisers tomanage the School’s investment portfolio,with the objective of maintenance of incomeand growth. Both the income and growthobjectives were achieved.Unrestricted reserves decreased at yearend by £82,000 to £2,411,000 mainly as aresult of the valuation losses on investments.The level of unrestricted reserves isconsidered by Council to be adequate to meetthe immediate needs of the School. Thebalance on restricted funds may only be usedfor the purposes described in note 18 and isnot available for the general purposes of theSchool.The School’s reserves comprise generalfunds, designated funds, and restricted funds.Council’s policy is that:- designated funds and restricted fundsshould be retained for the specificpurposes for which they were set up- the level of general funds, aftereliminating all unrealised revaluationsurpluses, should not fall below three, norexceed twelve months’ core running costsof the School.STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’RESPONSIBILITIESThe Trustees are responsible for preparing theAnnual Report and financial statements inaccordance with applicable law and UnitedKingdom Generally Accepted AccountingPractice.The Trustees are required to preparefinancial statements for each financial yearwhich give a true and fair view of the state ofthe School’s affairs at the end of the financialyear and of the School’s activities for thefinancial year. In preparing those financialstatements, the Trustees are required to:- select suitable accounting policies andapply them consistently- make judgements and estimates that arereasonable and prudent- state whether applicable accountingstandards and statements of recommendedpractice have been followed, subject to anydepartures disclosed and explained in thefinancial statements- prepare the financial statements on thegoing concern basis unless it isinappropriate to presume that the Schoolwill continue in operation.The Trustees are responsible for:- keeping proper accounting records thatdisclose with reasonable accuracy at anytime the financial position of the Schooland which enable them to ascertain thefinancial position of the School and toensure that the financial statements complywith Charities Act 1993- safeguarding the assets of the School andhence for taking reasonable steps for theprevention and detection of fraud and otherirregularities.The Trustees confirm that, so far as they areaware, there is no relevant audit information ofwhich the School’s auditors are unaware. Theyhave taken all the steps that they ought to havetaken as Trustees in order to make themselvesaware of any relevant audit information and toestablish that the School’s auditors are awareof that information.By order of the Council (Trustees) 23 June 2008Signed on its behalf byM.N. Higgin — Honorary Treasurer42

F INANCIAL S TATEMENTSfor the year ended 31 March 2008INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORTTO THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISHSCHOOL AT ROMEWe have audited the financial statements ofthe British School at Rome for the year ended31 March 2008 on pages 44 to 50. Thesefinancial statements have been prepared underthe accounting policies set out therein.This report is made solely to the charity’sTrustees, as a body, in accordance withSection 43 of the Charities Act 1993 and withregulations made under Section 44 of that Act.Our audit work has been undertaken so that wemight state to the charity’s Trustees thosematters we are required to state to them in anauditors’ report and for no other purpose. Tothe fullest extent permitted by law, we do notaccept or assume responsibility to anyoneother than the charity and the charity’sTrustees as a body, for our audit work, for thisreport, or for the opinions we have formed.RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES ANDAUDITORSAs described in the Statement of Trustees’Responsibilities, the charity’s Trustees areresponsible for the preparation of the financialstatements in accordance with applicable lawand United Kingdom Accounting Standards(United Kingdom Generally AcceptedAccounting Practice).We have been appointed as auditors underSection 43 of the Charities Act 1993 and reportin accordance with regulations made underSection 44 of that Act. Our responsibility is toaudit the financial statements in accordancewith relevant legal and regulatory requirementsand International Standards on Auditing (UKand Ireland).We report to you our opinion as to whetherthe financial statements give a true and fairview and are properly prepared in accordancewith the Charities Act 1993. We also report toyou if, in our opinion, the Trustees’ Report is notconsistent with the financial statements, if thecharity has not kept proper accounting records,or if we have not received all the informationand explanations we require for our audit.We read other information contained in theAnnual Report and consider whether it isconsistent with the audited financialstatements. We consider the implications forour report if we become aware of any apparentmisstatement or material inconsistencies withthe financial statements. Our responsibilitiesdo not extend to any other information.BASIS OF AUDIT OPINIONWe conducted our audit in accordance withInternational Standards on Auditing (UK andIreland), issued by the Auditing PracticesBoard. An audit includes examination, on a testbasis, of evidence relevant to the amounts anddisclosures in the financial statements. It alsoincludes an assessment of the significantestimates and judgements made by theTrustees in the preparation of the financialstatements and of whether the accountingpolicies are appropriate to the charity’scircumstances, consistentIy applied andadequately disclosed.We planned and performed our audit so asto obtain all the information and explanationswhich we considered necessary in order toprovide us with sufficient evidence to givereasonable assurance that the financialstatements are free from material misstatement,whether caused by fraud or otherirregularity or error. In forming our opinion wealso evaluated the overall adequacy of thepresentation of information in the financialstatements.OPINIONIn our opinion the financial statements:- give a true and fair view, in accordancewith United Kingdom Generally AcceptedAccounting Practice, of the state of theSchool's affairs as at 31 March 2008 and ofits incoming resources and application ofresources, including its income andexpenditure, in the year then ended; and- have been properly prepared in accordancewith the Charities Act 1993.HLB Vantis Audit plcChartered AccountantsRegistered Auditor82 St John StreetLondon EC1M 4JN17 September 200843

S TATEMENT OF F INANCIAL A CTIVITIESfor the year ended 31 March 2008Income and Expenditure Notes Total Funds Total FundsUnrestricted Restricted Year Ended Year EndedFunds Funds 31 March 2008 31 March 2007INCOMING RESOURCES:Incoming resources from generated fundsVoluntary incomeGrant from the British Academy£’0001,018£’00020£’0001,038£’000991Other grants, donations and legacies 2 350 3,121 3,471 2,346Subscriptions 9 - 9 14Activities for generating fundsAppeal income 3 2 12 14 27Other income 44 - 44 66Investment income 4 77 15 92 79Incoming resources from charitable activitiesPublications 27 - 27 29Residential income 5 328 - 328 293Other income 185 - 185 8Other incoming resourcesExchange gains - 223 223 -TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES 2,040 3,391 5,431 3,853RESOURCES EXPENDED:Costs of generating fundsCosts of generating voluntary income 6 2 - 2 8Charitable activities 7–9 1,957 1,582 3,539 3,764Governance costs 10 51 - 51 57TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED 2,010 1,582 3,592 3,829Net incoming resources before other recognised 30 1,809 1,839 24gains and lossesOTHER RECOGNISED GAINS AND LOSSESRealised gains on investments 13 22 2 24 59Unrealised (losses)/ gains on investments 13 (134) (15) (149) 54Net movement in funds (82) 1,796 1,714 137Opening funds 2,493 620 3,113 2,976Total funds carried forward 2,411 2,416 4,827 3,113The notes on pages 46 to 50 form part of these financial statements.The statement of financial activities is prepared on the basis that all activities are continuing.44

B ALANCE SHEETas at 31 March 20082008 2007Notes £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000Fixed AssetsTangible assets 12 75 99Heritage assets 12 500 500Investments — unrestricted 1,908 2,035Investments — restricted 240 240Total investments 13 2,148 2,275Total Fixed Assets 2,723 2,874Current AssetsDebtors 14 67 16Cash at bank and in hand — unrestricted 308 224Cash at bank and in hand — restricted 2,323 642Total cash at bank and in hand 2,631 8662,698 882Creditors — unrestricted (215) (214)Creditors — restricted (147) (262)Creditors: total amounts falling due within one year 15 (362) (476)Net Current Assets 2,336 406Total Assets less Current Liabilities 5,059 3,280Less:Provisions for liabilities and charges 16 (232) (167)Net Assets 4,827 3,113Represented by:FundsUnrestricted 17 2,411 2,493Restricted 18 2,416 620Total Charity Funds 4,827 3,113Approved by the Council on 23 June 2008 and signed on its behalf bySir Ivor Roberts — ChairmanM.N. Higgin — Honorary TreasurerThe notes on pages 46 to 50 form part of these financial statements.45

N OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTSfor the year ended 31 March 20081. ACCOUNTING POLICIESBasis of PreparationThe financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement ofRecommended Practice ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ (SORP 2005),applicable accounting standards and the Charities Act 1993. The accounts havebeen prepared on a going concern basis, under the historical cost convention asmodified by the revaluation of certain fixed assets and using the following policies.a) Incoming ResourcesAll income is gross without deduction for related expenditure.Legacies, including payments on account of legacies, are recognised in theaccounts when there is reasonable certainty of receipt and the amount can beascertained. Grants for general support, research, scholarships or fixed assetsare recognised on a receivable basis and are deferred only when the donor hasimposed pre-conditions on the use of the grant.The School recognises the intangible value of accommodation provided torecipients of awards and scholarships as a credit to residential income and acharge to grants and scholarships.b) Resources ExpendedLiabilities for expenditure are recognised in accordance with the accruals concept.Grants payable for research and scholarship fall due only when suchresearch is undertaken or upon attendance at the School and accordingly areaccounted for over the period of research or attendance. More details on thenature of awards are shown in the Annual Report. Expenditure for researchand academic studies, residential research programmes, library andpublications disclosed within charitable activities includes departmentalsalaries. A proportion of salary costs is allocated to governance costs based onthe approximate time expended on such activities.Support costs are allocated in full to expenditure incurred on charitableactivities. The majority of costs are allocated on a pro rated basis over thedifferent activities undertaken by the School, excluding activities which arefinanced by restricted funds. Support costs which are related to a specificactivity are allocated to that activity in full. The Trustees consider this to bethe most appropriate method of allocation.c) PensionsThe School contributes to the UK Universities Superannuation Scheme forcertain of its employees. The Universities Superannuation Scheme is adefined benefit scheme which is externally funded. The assets of the schemeare held in a separate trustee-administered fund. It is not possible to identifyeach institution’s share of the underlying assets and liabilities of the schemeand hence contributions to the scheme are accounted for as if it were adefined contribution scheme in accordance with FRS 17. The chargerecognised within the Statement of Financial Activities is equal to thecontributions payable to the scheme for the year.d) Staff Termination FundThe School provides for deferred pay which is due to Italian employees whenthey leave the employment of the School. The amount payable is calculated inaccordance with existing Italian legal requirements and the Italian nationallabour contract. The charge is recognised within the Statement of FinancialActivities.e) Fixed AssetsFixed assets other than library books are disclosed at cost. Depreciation isprovided by the School to write off the cost less the estimated residual valueof tangible fixed assets over their useful economic lives as follows:Computers25% straight lineMotor vehicles25% straight lineOffice equipment20% straight lineFurniture and fittings20% straight lineThe Library is considered to be a heritage asset and is stated in the balancesheet at an attributed value based on its insured value. The annual cost ofadditions to the Library, which is equivalent to an annual depreciation rate ofapproximately 10% straight line, is charged to the Statement of FinancialActivities to represent the notional write down in the useful economic life ofthe Library.f) InvestmentsInvestments are carried at market value with any unrealised gains and lossesbeing included in the Statement of Financial Activities allocated betweenrestricted and unrestricted funds.The proportion of investment income relating to restricted funds is retainedfor use within restricted funds.g) Foreign CurrencyForeign currency conversion for the balance sheet is at year-end rates,except where the balances are covered by forward contracts to meet knownfuture liabilities, when the contract rate is used. During the year thetranslation is at average rates on a month to month basis, or forwardcontract rate as applicable. Exchange gains or losses are treated as otherincome or expenditure in the Statement of Financial Activities where theycannot be directly related to individual activities. Where exchange gains orlosses can be directly related to individual designated or restricted projectsthe gain or loss is attributed to the relevant fund.h) Cash Flow StatementThe School is exempted by FRS 1 (revised) from preparing a cash flowstatement.i) FundsDetails of the funds of the School, how they have arisen and their use aregiven in notes 17 and 18.46

N OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTSfor the year ended 31 March 20082. OTHER GRANTS, DONATIONS AND LEGACIESUnrestricted Restricted Total TotalFunds Funds 2008 2007£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000Other grants 347 3,088 3,435 2,340Donations and legacies 3 33 36 63. APPEAL INCOME350 3,121 3,471 2,346Appeal income primarily relates to funds raised to preserve some of theLibrary’s rare books.4. INVESTMENT INCOMETotal Total2008 2007£’000 £’000Dividends — UK equities 49 45Interest — UK fixed interest securities 15 17Interest on cash deposits 28 175. RESIDENTIAL INCOME92 79Total Total2008 2007£’000 £’000Residential income includes the intangiblevalue of accommodation provided torecipients of grants and scholarships of: 140 1206. COSTS OF GENERATING FUNDSCosts of generating funds comprise sundry expenses incurred in raising funds.7. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIESExpenditure on charitable activities is made up as follows:Direct Support Total TotalExpenses Costs 2008 2007£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000Research and academic salaries 551 203 754 715Residential research programmes 530 178 708 651Research projects 106 35 141 -Library 294 102 396 426Publications 11 4 15 46Herculaneum Conservation Project 1,407 - 1,407 1,849Fasti on line project 118 - 118 773,017 522 3,539 3,764Included within charitable expenditure is the following restricted expenditure:Total Total2008 2007£’000 £’000Herculaneum Conservation Project 1,407 1,849Fasti on line project 118 77Scholarships (within residential research programmes) 6 13Getty Library project (within Library costs) 17 -Library appeal fund (within Library costs) 11 -PHI Library project (within Library costs) 8 -Murray project (within Library costs) 10 -British Academy Grant — collaborative project(within residential research programmes) 5 -1,582 1,9398. GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPSCharitable activities include the cost of grants and scholarships awarded. Grantsand scholarships comprise £329,000 (2007 — £277,000) awarded to 57 (2007 —51) individuals. There were no grants payable to Institutions (2007 — none).TotalTotal2008 2007No. £’000 No. £’000Grants paid:Research 17 74 13 54Scholarships 40 115 38 103Intangible value of accommodation 140 12057 329 51 27747

N OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTSfor the year ended 31 March 20089. SUPPORT COSTSSupport costs, which are allocated to charitable activities, are as follows:Total Total2008 2007£’000 £’000Support staff salaries 232 204Building maintenance and utilities costs 96 201IT and equipment maintenance 56 43Depreciation 48 50Travel expenses 11 13Consultants’ fees 42 44Other 37 31522 586All support costs relate to unrestricted funds.10. GOVERNANCE COSTS2008 2007£’000 £’000Salaries and pensions 15 20Auditors’ remuneration 11 10Accountancy fees 3 3Annual Report 7 7Council and committee meetings 15 1751 57All governance expenditure relates to unrestricted funds.11. TRUSTEES AND EMPLOYEES2008 2007£’000 £’000Aggregate staff costs comprise:Wages and salaries 584 535Taxes, social security and related costs 279 227Pensions 14 17Staff termination pay (note 16) 38 24915 803The School participates in the Universities Superannuation Scheme. The latest actuarialvaluation of the scheme was at 31 March 2005. At the valuation date, the assets of thescheme were 77% of the accrued liabilities based on projected pensionable salaries andthe value of the past service deficit was £6,568 million. This is based on a funding targetof £28,308 million and the actuarial value of assets of £21,740 million. The institutioncontribution rate will be maintained at 14% of salaries. Surpluses or deficits which ariseat future valuations may impact on the School’s future contribution commitment. Thetotal UK pension cost for the School was £14,016 (2007 — £16,898). The contribution tothe provision of staff termination pay for the year was £38,124 (2007 — £23,922). Noemployees earned more than £60,000 per annum (2007 — none).The average number of employees 2008 2007analysed by function was as follows: No NoAcademic programmes 7 7Residential research programmes 8 8Publications 2 2Library 5 5Support 5 5Management and administration of the charity 1 1The Trustees of the School received no remuneration in the year under review(2007 — £nil). An aggregate of £3,338 (2007 — £1,340) was reimbursed toeight (2007 — seven) Trustees in respect of travel charges.12. FIXED ASSETSLibrary Computer Office FurnitureBooks Equipment Equipment & Fittings Vehicles Total£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000Cost or ValuationBrought forward 500 313 196 121 61 1,191Additions - 13 7 4 - 24Carried forward 500 326 203 125 61 1,215DepreciationBrought forward - 286 169 85 52 592Charge for year - 16 14 12 6 48Carried forward - 302 183 97 58 640Net Book ValueAt 31 March 2008 500 24 20 28 3 575At 31 March 2007 500 27 27 36 9 599Fixed assets held are all for direct charitable use.48

N OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTSfor the year ended 31 March 2008Under an agreement dated 25 April 1912 between the Comune di Roma and the BritishAmbassador at that time, the British School at Rome was granted, for an annual rentalof one Italian lira, the use in perpetuity of the land on which the School is built, providedthat the land is used exclusively for study and research in the humanities, archaeologyand fine arts. Should the land not be used for such purposes, it has to be surrendered tothe Comune without any compensation for its cost or value. On this basis, no value isascribed to the School building in the accounts or to any additions or improvements tothe building. Such expenditure is written off to the Statement of Financial Activities inthe year of expenditure.The Trustees consider that it is not possible to ascribe a meaningful value to theintangible benefit of the use of the land on which the School is built.The Trustees consider the Library of books, papers, manuscripts and pictures to be aheritage asset within the definition of SORP 2005. Many of the contents are consideredto be irreplaceable. On this basis, the Trustees have ascribed the insured value of theLibrary as its value to the School. The Library's holdings consist of approximately 60,000volumes of which 50,000 are monographs and 10,000 periodicals. 600 currentperiodicals are taken. Specialisms include: Mediterranean archaeology, prehistory,ancient history and texts, the history of ancient religions, ecclesiastical and medievalhistory, Italian topography, history of art and architectural history, and the writings oftravellers in Italy. The open-shelf reference Library provides the bibliographic resourcesand services necessary to support the research activities of the School. The Library aimsto complement UK academic libraries through its holdings of local Italian publicationsand periodicals, and welcomes all scholars, undergraduates and graduates studying inany field relevant to its collections.13. INVESTMENTS2008 2007£’000 £’000UK quoted investments 1,917 2,102Cash on deposit 231 1732,148 2,275Historical cost at 31 March:Quoted investments 1,725 1,761The following investments individually comprise the investments held:2008 2007£’000 £’000Cazenove Unit Trust Management:Growth Trust for Charities 610 680Income Trust for Charities 283 280Absolute Return Trust for Charities 366 320Equity Income Trust for Charities 535 686European Fund 28 27Property Trust 95 109The movement on quoted investments comprises:2008 2007£’000 £’000Market value at 1 April 2,102 2,040Additions at cost 18 390Disposal proceeds (78) (441)2,042 1,989Realised gains on disposals 24 59Unrealised (losses)/gains (149) 54Market value at 31 March 1,917 2,10214. DEBTORS2008 2007£’000 £’000Other debtors and prepayments 67 1615. CREDITORS: amounts falling due within one year2008 2007£’000 £’000Other creditors and accruals 362 476362 47616. PROVISIONS2008 2007£’000 £’000Provision for staff termination pay 232 167This liability represents deferred pay due to employees at 31 March 2008,payable when they leave the School. The amount payable is calculated inaccordance with existing Italian legal requirements and the Italian nationallabour contract.The movements on the provision in the year are as follows:2008 2007£’000 £’000Balance at 1 April 167 151Increase in provision for the year 38 24Payment to existing employee - (8)Exchange loss 27 -Balance at 31 March 232 16749

N OTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTSfor the year ended 31 March 200817. UNRESTRICTED FUNDSGeneral Capital Designated Total TotalFunds Fund Funds 2008 2007£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000At 1 April 908 278 1,307 2,493 2,373Transfer fromrestricted funds - - - - 9Net incoming/(outgoing)resources 32 - (2) 30 10Realised gainson investments 16 - 6 22 54Unrealised (losses)/ gainson investments (96) - (38) (134) 47At 31 March 860 278 1,273 2,411 2,493The designated funds are funds set aside by Council for various grants forresearch and scholarship and arise from unrestricted bequests.18. RESTRICTED FUNDSBritish Academy Getty Cary Appeal PHI Other Total TotalFund Fund Fund Funds Funds Funds 2008 2007£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000At 1 April - - 164 30 380 46 620 603Transfer todesignated funds - - - - - - - (9)Total incomingresources 20 115 7 13 3,173 63 3,391 1,953Total resourcesexpended (5) (17) (7) (11) (1,533) (9) (1,582) (1,939)Realised gains oninvestments - - 2 - - - 2 5Unrealised (losses)/ gains on investments- - (12) - - (3) (15) 7The bequest establishing the Cary Fund was restricted and Council determined inNovember 1995 that it should be used to create a fellowship to enable anacademic to undertake research in Rome and to be involved with a Schoolpostgraduate taught course.The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Funds represent grants given by theInstitute to finance specific projects, principally in Herculaneum.The British Academy Fund relates to funding for a collaborative project with theSociety for Libyan Studies to fund a series of Punic Mediterranean workshops.The Getty Fund represents grants given by the Getty Foundation for thearrangement and description of the J.B. Ward-Perkins photographic collection.19. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDSUnrestricted RestrictedFunds Funds Total£’000 £’000 £’000Fund balances at 31 March 2008 are represented by:Tangible fixed assets 575 - 575Investments 1,908 240 2,148Cash 308 2,323 2,631Other current assets 67 - 67Current liabilities (215) (147) (362)Long-term liabilities (232) - (232)Total net assets 2,411 2,416 4,82720. COMMITMENTSThe School has awarded grants and scholarships totalling £85,210 to be paidin 2008–9 (2007–8 — £88,000). No provision has been made for these grantsas the conditions attaching to the grants had not been met at 31 March 2008.21. CONTROLLING PARTYThe activities of the School are controlled by Council. There is no ultimatecontrolling party of the School.At 31 March15 98 154 32 2,020 97 2,416 62050

S UBCOMMITTEES AND H ONORARY F ELLOWSFaculty of the Fine ArtsMs E. Bonham CarterMs J. FarrerMr J. Fobert °Ms A. GallagherMr J. GillMs C. HawleyProfessor C. HopkinsMs J. Lomax (Chair)Ms V. Lovell ºMs B. Lowe *Mr D. MasiMr E. Parry *Ms A. TurnbullDr A. WilliamsonMr A. WilsonFaculty of Archaeology, History andLettersDr D. Atkinson *Dr C. BurdettDr E. IsayevDr V. Izzet ºDr R. JacksonProfessor R. McKitterickProfessor M. Millett (Chair of Archaeology)Professor S. MilnerDr J. Crawley Quinn ºProfessor L. Riall ºDr C. RichardsonDr C. Robertson ºDr F. Salmon (Chair)Dr A. Sennis ºDr R. SkeatesMr B. Ward-Perkins (Chair of Publications)Professor R. Whitehouse ºProfessor A. WilsonMr M. Wilson Jones ºPublications Advisory CommitteeWith effect from 1 January 2008 thiscommittee merged with the Faculty ofArchaeology, History and LettersDr G. ClarkDr V. IzzetDr J. Crawley QuinnDr L. RiallDr C. RobertsonDr F. Salmon (ex officio)Dr A. SennisMr B. Ward-Perkins (Chair)Professor R. WhitehouseMr M. Wilson JonesProfessor M. Wyke *Development Advisory GroupWith effect from 1 January 2008 thiscommittee was disbandedMrs D. BaringMrs C. ColvinMr N. CranstonLady EgertonMr M.N. HigginMr S. OddieDr J.H. Pellew (Chair)Mr H. Petter___________________° Joined during 2007–8* Left during 2007–8HONORARY FELLOWSProfessor Girolamo ArnaldiProfessor Anna Maria Bietti SestieriDr Angelo BottiniMr Peter BrownProfessor Andrea CarandiniMr Roderick CavalieroProfessor Filippo CoarelliProfessor Lucos CozzaProfessor Francesco D’AndriaProfessor Stefano De CaroProfessor Paolo DeloguLady EgertonProfessor Emanuela FabbricottiMr Robert JacksonProfessor Anna Gallina ZeviProfessor Pier Giovanni GuzzoProfessor Adriano La ReginaProfessor Eugenio La RoccaDr Tersilio LeggioProfessor David MarshallProfessor Fergus MillarAvv. Luca Cordero di MontezemoloProfessor John OsborneDr David Woodley PackardProfessor Silvio PancieraProfessor Paola PelagattiDr Anna Maria ReggianiProfessor Geoffrey RickmanLord Sainsbury of Preston CandoverMr Michael StillwellProfessor Mario TorelliProfessor Maria Luisa Veloccia RinaldiProfessor Fausto Zevi51

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