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The 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.

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Reports

Chairman’s Foreword 3Director’s Report 4Herculaneum Conservation Project 11Development 14Humanities Awards 15Humanities Activities 16Modern Studies 19Events 20Archaeology 22Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters 27Fine Arts Awards 28Fine Arts Scholars’ Activities 28Faculty of the Fine Arts 32Architecture Programme 33Publications 34Library and Archive 35

AppendicesPublications 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 56

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AN N U A L RE P O R T 2008–2009

I t is not often that one can use the phrase ‘end of an era’without being accused of hyperbole but in the case of

the departure of Andrew Wallace-Hadrill after fourteenimmensely distinguished years as the director of the BSR,there is no hint of exaggeration. Not only has Andrewencouraged and nurtured significantly the academicactivities of the School but he has carried out outstandingresearch in his own right, exemplified by his most recentbook, Rome’s Cultural Revolution, and given the School analtogether higher profile. We have been fortunate indeedto have enjoyed his services and those of Jo, whose self-sacrificing role has been critical, over such an extendedand intellectually-exciting period and we are enormouslygrateful to them both. Andrew has also single-handedlybrought the BSR and the Packard-funded HerculaneumConservation Project together and I am delighted that ourprofessional contact with Andrew will be maintainedthrough the BSR’s continuing involvement with theproject, where Andrew will remain as its Director. I alsowelcome Andrew to the ranks of heads of Oxbridgecolleges where he is sure, in this next phase of his career,to play a role as distinguished as his last.

Filling such large boots was never going to be easy butthe search committee, led by the Deputy Chairman TimLlewellyn, laboured throughout the spring sifting throughan impressive field both qualitatively and quantitatively. Weowe Tim and his team a real debt of gratitude not least forthe final outcome. Tim has also played a vital role over thelast year in preparing a report on the future of the fine artsat BSR which was bold and imaginative. The new directorwill want to reflect on the extent to which the happy unionof humanities scholars and artists, which is one of thedistinguishing features of the BSR, can be protected anddeveloped.

We welcome as the fifteenth Director of the BSR,Professor Christopher Smith, a distinguished scholar andhistorian of early Rome and Latium and someone whoalready has great experience of the BSR. With his strategic

management background, Christopher, and his wife Susan,are extremely well equipped to take the school forward at atime of great challenge, not least due to the difficultycreated by the dramatic decline in the value of sterlingagainst the euro, the currency in which most of theSchool’s expenditure is incurred. The Council looksforward keenly to working with them.

This year has seen the departure of Jenni Lomax as theChair of the Faculty of the Fine Arts and from Council andher replacement by John Gill. Martin Millett and ChrisWickham have also resigned from Council during this year.John is a most welcome recruit, along with Graeme Barker,who has also joined Council in 2009. Our warmest thanksto Jenni, Martin and Chris for their sterling efforts. We alsobid farewell to David Forgacs after his three-year stint asthe inaugural Research Professor in Modern Studies.Thanks to David, the concept of modern studies is nowfirmly embedded in the School’s area of core activities.

Departures and arrivals need to be seen in the widercontext of the School’s activities. Details are to be found inthe following pages but the continuing work on theImperial harbour at Portus under Simon Keay’s tutelage,the Herculaneum Conservation Project and the exhibitionof the Rome photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackeywhich opened at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in Junehave been particular but far from the only highlights. JillPellew’s work on the organisation and sponsorship andValerie Scott’s curatorship of the latter have beenoutstanding.

In conclusion, I thank my fellow members of Councilfor their unswerving support in a difficult year of transitionand change, and of course the staff of the BSR in Romeand London for their professionalism and hard workduring a particularly demanding period. As ever, EllyMurkett has been a real pillar of strength.

Sir Ivor RobertsChairman of Council

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F or a director who has served the School for fourteenyears, it is no easy thing to bid this institution farewell,

nor to put into words what he owes it. My colleague DavidForgacs, in his report below, his last after a three-year stintas the inaugural Research Professor in Modern Studies,says that he ‘considers his three years based at BSR to havebeen without doubt the best research opportunity he hashad in his career since he finished his doctorate in 1978, aswell as an uniquely rewarding social and intellectualexperience’. Scarcely a scholar or fellow or award-winnerleaves the School without this sense of regret andindebtedness. The School may set about justifying itsexistence in the modern world in a variety of ways.Recently the British Academy has been encouraging us tothink in terms of what we bring back to the Britisheconomy and national welfare. But in the end, the litmustest is this: do those who pass through the institutionbring back lasting profit from it? A director is no differentfrom a research professor or a scholar. The tellingquestion is not what you have done for the institution, butwhat it has done for you. My latest, longest and hardestbook, Rome’s Cultural Revolution , finally came out inNovember 2008. I dedicated it to the British School atRome because I could only have written it here. Theopportunity the School has given me to widen myhorizons, to immerse myself in the archaeology andmaterial culture of Italy, and to meet and make friendswith a range of Italian and other international scholars anddraw stimulus and inspiration from them, is unthinkablewithout having this base for British scholars in Rome. Andthis is only an example of the debt I owe. Running such aninstitution makes great demands, not just on time. But ifthe cause is a good one, the effort brings its own reward.The British School at Rome is extraordinarily rewardingcause to work for, because it repays your efforts andflourishes, something impossible if the institution had notbeen set up right in the first place, and if it did not have avalid place in the contemporary world.

The past year, like those before it, has been one ofvigorous and varied activity, but now in the face of realfinancial hardship. The collapse of sterling since September2007 has been catastrophic, from a purchasing power ofnearly 1.5 euros to the pound to something very close toparity at its lowest point in March 2009. The drop may beadvantageous for the British economy, but for a Britishinstitution operating in the euro-zone (the British School atAthens being equally affected), with an income streamalmost wholly in sterling, and expenditures largely in euros,the impact is very severe.

We have had to rein in spending on many fronts. One ofthe first to be hit was the Contemporary Arts Programme.For ten years, Cristiana Perrella has run an exceptionallylively programme of contemporary art shows, in recentyears being able to make use of our new Gallery space. Theprogramme has enjoyed the highest respect within theRoman art world. On the basis of minimal funding, she haspulled off a programme that has been the envy of far better-funded institutions in Rome. For the last year, the fundingsituation has forced us to abandon the programme. Yet theSchool is determined to reaffirm its commitment tocontemporary art. Over the last year, one of our Trustees,Tim Llewellyn, now free from his responsibilities asDirector of the Henry Moore Foundation, has drawn up, inconsultation with numerous parties inside and outside theinstitution, a document on the future of the fine arts atBSR. The commitment is there, and the conclusion is thatwe should aim higher, attracting artists of the highestcalibre, and making a ‘Rome prize’ as sought after as anaward like the Turner Prize.

In the debate on the future of the fine arts, a key role isplayed by the British Academy. By happy chance, this yearwas the BSR’s turn for a periodic review. We now absorbover one million pounds a year of public finance (thoughour accounts show how, on the back of that, we generate atleast double, or including the Herculaneum project, fourtimes the amount of non-public finance). We are a heavy

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commitment for a national academy with stretchedresources, and it is healthy that there be an open dialogue,with each side understanding the other’s difficulties andpriorities. The committee which provides our fundingbenefits from a high-calibre team, including the CEO,Robin Jackson, the Chairman of the committee, ProfessorMichael Fulford, and the head of the programme, MargotJackson. These three, together with our assessors from thecommittee, Professors Tony Allan and Leslie Brubaker,spent the best part of a week looking at every aspect of our

operations, and produced a report that was complimentary,realistic, and constructive. It will be an important startingpoint in thinking about future directions for the BSR.

One of the issues raised by their report is the role of thefine arts within the institution. The British Academy is thenational body responsible for the promotion of thehumanities and social sciences. It has no remit for the visualarts and architecture, and the fellowship has norepresentation in those disciplines. The question therefore isof the extent to which the Academy can take responsibility

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Andrew and Jo Wallace-Hadrill and School staff and residents, June 2009 — a photograph by Photoworks Fellow David Spero

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for that side of our activities. Part of the answer is that ourprogramme of arts scholarships depends entirely onexternal sponsorship or on our trust funds (the Sargantbequest, the proceeds of a London property left us by thepainter F.W. Sargant, is the largest single element in ourendowment). Further Fine Arts scholarships are funded bythe Linbury Trust (funding two annual scholarships), theAbbey Awards (funding one annual scholarship and threethree-month fellowships), the Australia Council for the Arts(four three-month residencies), the Northern Ireland ArtsCouncil (one annual scholarship in alternating years), theDerek Hill Foundation (one three-month award), and thecollaboration between the Arts Council England, the RuskinSchool of Drawing and Fine Art, and St Peter’s College,Oxford, which support the Helen Chadwick Fellowship inboth Rome and Oxford. This year we have welcomed forthe first time a three-month award for a photographersupported by Photoworks, a three-month award inarchitecture supported by the Conseil des Arts et desLettres du Québec, and the first holder of the Giles WorsleyTravel Fellowship in Architecture. It will be a target incoming years to strengthen and increase this income stream,but it is worth noting that it has proved much harderfinding external support for awards in the Humanities,where the honourable exceptions are the Paul MellonCentre for Studies in British Art, supporting a distinguishedseries of Mellon Fellows, and in Australia, the Bill and JanetGale Foundation supporting a remarkable series of ancienthistorians from Macquarie University, and Don and JaneMorley supporting three-month awards in art history fromMelbourne.

But the most important consideration, to this Director atleast, is the following. It is the combination of academicresearch and creative activity in the fine arts that hasdetermined the character and strength of the institution,ever since the creation of the new building and programmeof arts scholarship by the 1851 Commission in 1912. Fromone point of view, academics and artists inhabit different

worlds, and that is why the union is so stimulating, unusual,and successful. But in contemporary conditions, the gap hasnarrowed dramatically. Artists and architects are not somuch concerned with making beautiful things, but inunderstanding, visually interpreting and representing andrefashioning the world around them. Our modernistprofessor, David Forgacs, rapidly found that those whowere closest to his own interests, whether in immigrants inItaly and their marginalisation, or in the representation ofItalian society in film, were the fine artists, with JacopoBenci as a rich source of stimulus in such fields. Ourenterprises are much more closely cognate than thetraditional disciplinary separation suggests. Our inauguralGiles Worsley Travel Fellow, Rebecca Madgin, came from asocial sciences faculty; but her work on urban regenerationin the once-industrial area of Ostiense linked to the interestsof generations of architects working here, and instantlystruck a chord with the Sainsbury Scholar in Painting, CeliaHempton, whose theme was abandoned industriallandscapes. The fine arts, far from being irrelevant to theremit of the Academy, are what ensures that the Schoolengages with contemporary issues as well as the past.

Another area in which the financial pressure is felt is theHumanities programme of conferences and lecturesorganised by the Assistant Director, Sue Russell. Yet,despite a halving of the budget, activity has remainedintense: seven conferences, three presentations, and 35

The Contemporary Value of Industrial Architecture, by Rebecca Madgin,Giles Worsley Travel Fellow

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lectures represent no diminution of the levels of activity ofprevious years. The enormous advantage of our renewedfacilities is that we can handle such events at minimal cost,and the advantage of a base in Rome is that there is never ashortage of willing speakers and participants. Theprogramme has included at least four regular elements: SueRussell’s own art history programme, Simon Keay’sarchaeology workshops, Robert Coates-Stephens’s City ofRome programme, and presentations by our own fellows andscholars. Taken together with the Fine Arts programme, thethree annual shows of our artists, Marina Engel’sArchitecture programme of presentations accompanied byexhibitions by young architects, not to speak of a range ofinformal presentations and events by the arts scholars, andone concert by our Youth Music Foundation of AustraliaScholar, it has meant an extraordinary rich and stimulatingexperience for everyone here. It is that vibrancy that makesthe School special, and the residents could not have given Joand myself a better farewell than their tableau vivant on the

Odyssey frieze, which managed to combine the researchinterest of a Roman art historian, Marden Nichols, with theinterest in semi-decipherable landscapes of an artist, CeliaHempton, supported by a cast of three artists, one architectand one archaeologist. Thus our paths converge.

The Library is particularly sensitive to financial shortfalls.Book prices, especially those of periodicals, constantly rise,and electronic media, far from easing the cost burden, proveto be an additional expense. Yet cutting back on bookpurchases does a collection permanent damage: it is rare tobe able to make up missing volumes in later years, and thecorrect response is to specialise even more, cutting out anyareas that are marginal. Ironically, the Library, despite thesedifficulties, has never been so intensely used, the temporaryclosure of the German Archaeological Institute and theVatican creating a surge of refugees. In these straits, thesupport of the Packard Humanities Institute in providingadditional staff to cope with the extra work, and to extendopening hours, has been especially valuable. Valerie Scott

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Second Style: an OdysseyFrieze, a performancedirected by RaleghRadford Rome ScholarMarden Nichols

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has been able to ensure that despite the surge in readernumbers, the Library has retained its welcomingatmosphere.

Valerie Scott has also carried forward, despite the toughfinancial climate, her programme of projects and exhibitionsof material from our archive of historical photographs andother material. The Getty Foundation has been a key allyin recent years, and the workshop held in Los Angeles onSir William Gell, at which both Valerie and I spoke,underlined our common interests. A new ally is the Sir JohnSoane Museum, which proved the perfect partner for anexhibition of the Rome photographs of Father Peter PaulMackey. The sponsors who made this possible are thankedbelow, but it is right here to pay tribute to the energy anddetermination of the team of Jill Pellew and Valerie Scott,who ensured that the right support was found. Suchpartnerships are an essential way forward for the future, andthe ongoing series of photographic exhibitions is anotherpoint where the disciplines converge; photography and fineart on the one hand (and our new partnership withPhotoworks is also relevant here), and archaeology and thehistory of art on the other.

I turn finally, among our activities, to archaeology. TheBritish Academy is keen to emphasise that the institutes itsupports abroad are not simply bases for archaeologicalfieldwork, and the British School is equally keen to remindthem that our aims have never been limited in this way.Nevertheless, archaeology has a fundamental role in ourmission. If it were not for the physical reality of the past, itmight not be so necessary to spend long periods of timeabroad in trying to get to grips with it. Ancient historians(including myself) and classical philologists and even arthistorians might sit at home in their libraries. But the past isphysically present, even when it seems invisible, as in thestreet patterns of contemporary Rome or Naples (or for thatmatter most other Italian cities), which continue to steerhumans between modern buildings down routes used forthousands of years. The study of the physical traces of the

past will always be the core activity of this institution. But itis not the focus of a narrow disciplinary subset. It is aninherently interdisciplinary activity. Every group of residentswho visit a monument rapidly understands how the presenceof artists and architects, art historians and social scientists,field archaeologists and philologists, converges in the readingof the visible past. The School is not merely a facility: it is amissionary enterprise that seeks to convert all those whocome through it to an understanding of this visible, physicalpast. Our Hugh Last Fellow, Stephen Heyworth, adistinguished editor of Latin poetry from Oxford, left aconvert to topography, the discipline of Sir William Gell andThomas Ashby, and their successors today, like FilippoCoarelli and Robert Coates-Stephens.

Working at Herculaneum in an ambitious project ofconservation, I have learned above all that archaeology isneither a single discipline, nor one that can exist inisolation. We always knew that archaeologists would haveto join hands with architects, conservators, surveyors andengineers to address the problems of the site, and to keepwhat I have called the ‘visible past’ in such a state to ensureits visibility to future generations. What has taken me bysurprise is the number of other disciplines we have foundourselves involving. Geologists have taught us tounderstand the long process of volcanic eruption and thetransformations, sometimes slow, sometimes alarminglyrapid, of the landscape. Chemists have shown us how toanalyse the salts that eat away frescoes and the mortars andgrouting that affect the ancient surfaces. Computerspecialists have shown how a Laser Speckle Interferometeror Polynomial Texture Mapping can reveal otherwiseinvisible faults or bring back ancient colours. It is not justthe application of high-tech solutions. The world ofheritage management brought together by ICCROM hastaught us that beyond technical solutions, you have to workon the right relations with the stakeholders, from visitormanagement to relations with the local community.Urbanists and social scientists have taught us to study a site

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in its social context. And needless to say, our own artists,like Liz Rideal and Penelope Cain, have taught us thepower of art in the process of communication. Liz Rideal’sprojection upon ancient Roman structures of video footageof laundry hung to dry in the narrow streets showed a newway to visualise the dialogue of then and now.

The projects of our Research Professor in Archaeology,Simon Keay, are the jewel in our institutional crown. Thegreat artificial harbour at Portus built by emperors fromClaudius to Trajan has passed in his hands from being oneof the most neglected and ill-understood of Imperial sites toa key source for understanding the economy and trade of anempire which thought itself global. Yet it is a sign of thenature of that empire that where he expected to excavateport installations, moles, docks and warehouses, he seems tohave found an Imperial palace, complete with its own toyamphitheatre and sculptural decoration. At the same time,the team he has built up with expertise in geophysicalprospection has continued to obtain important newinformation about sites, from the heart of Rome (Piazzadella Repubblica), to Italian sites like Gabii, Ardea, VillaMagna and Atella, to Ammaia in Portugal and Leptis Magnain Libya.

One of the crucial questions that still faces the School ishow broad its geographical remit should be. Should weconcentrate our resources on Rome and Italy, or spreadmore widely in the Mediterranean, especially in countries ofNorth Africa, in the Iberian peninsular, and in the islands(including Malta), where Britain has otherwise no base orinstitute? Before the collapse of sterling, the School wasdeveloping a programme of broader engagement with thewestern Mediterranean, of which the stimulating conferenceIdentifying the Punic Mediter ranean was a valuable fruit.Finances are now tighter, yet the creation of internationalnetworks is not necessarily costly. My own belief is thatthere is still scope for more active exploitation of thenetwork of foreign academies that makes Rome special, andof more collaborative enterprises.

One organisation that exists to promote suchinternational exchange is AIAC, the InternationalAssociation of Classical Archaeology. The School played amajor part in helping to organise AIAC’s quinquennialinternational congress, on the 50th anniversary of the lastRome congress. With over a thousand participants, it was amajor logistical challenge, and it could not have been pulledoff without a team of research assistants, including (on theBSR side) Aimee Forster, Martina dalla Riva, Valentina daPozzo and Chris Siwicki, to all of whom I am profoundlygrateful. The importance of the congress, with its strongthematic organisation around the topic of ‘Meetings ofcultures in the ancient Mediterranean’, was to remind us allof the potential of international research networks, and onesthat do not neglect the Islamic lands of North Africa andthe Levant. BSR is in a strong position to ensure a Britishengagement with such international networks, and that is acause that merits further investment of money and effort.

Drappeggio in Ercolano by Liz Rideal (Wingate Scholar 2008–9),projected onto the Aurelian Wall, Rome

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I end with thanks. The debts accumulated over fourteenyears, both institutionally and individually, are too many tolist, and can only be hinted at. To list all is impossible, tomention only some is invidious. I therefore thank them byclasses, with symbolic representatives, and yet to eachmember of each class I am deeply beholden. Our sponsors,whether the British Academy, or the numerous foundationsand bodies that support scholarships and activities, provideour life blood. I pick out two exceptional couples, who maystand symbolically for the rest, and who have stuck with usloyally over these years: the Sainsburys, John and Anya,who visited us again last October, and have championedthe Fine Arts, and the Packards, David and Pam, who, notcontent with helping us build the Library extension and toconserve Herculaneum, have supported the Library againin its hour of need, and supported AIAC and its web-basedFasti Online, and thus the cause of making information onnew excavations internationally accessible. Within theinstitution, we are indebted to the colleagues, in Rome andLondon, who form an outstandingly successful team. TheSchool has been exceptionally fortunate to be able to drawon so much talent and devotion at so many levels, whetheramong academic colleagues, or in the support staff in theoffices, the Library, the maintenance, cleaning and cateringdepartments. As symbolic representative of the staff, Imention Sue Russell, our exceptionally successful AssistantDirector, to whose efforts and presence the School owesnot only its flourishing events programme but its cheerfulatmosphere. But we are also indebted to a wider groupbased in London, to the committee members, on Facultiesand Council, who give up their precious time, sometimesmore than they had bargained for, to give advice andguidance. As representative of all of them, I thank Sir IvorRoberts, who in taking on the Chairmanship never dreamthe would have to handle the endless complications ofreplacing the Director. The choice made by Council is anoutstanding one. Christopher Smith brings to this role notonly academic distinction and experience at the highest

level of university administration, but a long knowledge andlove of the School. I wish him and Susan a happy andsuccessful time here, and warn them in advance that itwon’t be easy to leave.

Finally, I register two personal thanks. Elly Murkett asDirector’s Assistant has successfully kept at bayinnumerable distractions, enabling me to focus on projectsand writing; the Annual Report, which she edits, is just oneillustration of the high standards she sets. Above all, I wantto thank my wife, Jo. She gave up a full-time career as ateacher to come to Rome, and left family and friendsfurther behind than she wanted. The sacrifices a Director’swife makes receive little institutional acknowledgement. Yetshe has always placed herself at the heart of the residentialcommunity, managing to remember the constant successionof names and faces long after others have given up trying,administering advice and comfort, offering drinks and harprecitals, and even teaching Latin to those who have asked.When we arrived, she planted the cortile with roses. Wewere warned that this was no place for roses, and that theywould soon be dead. They have flowered unfailingly everyyear for fourteen years, in a flowering season that stretchesfrom April to December. Without her touch, these yearswould have been very different.

Andrew Wallace-HadrillDirector

Jo Wallace-Hadrill

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T he major project at Herculaneum initiated by thePackard Humanities Institute, and put into effect by

the British School, in close collaboration with theArchaeological Superintendency (which now reunitesPompeii with Naples), is now in its eighth year of activity.Advances can be reported on two principal fronts. Thefirst is in the campaign to address the problems of theinfrastructure of the site and bring the movement of waterunder control. As roofs are progressively repaired, and theancient drainage network put back into action, so theproblems mount at the lowest point of the site, where inantiquity the town came down to the sea. A major projectof clearing and draining the ancient shoreline has led to aseries of important results. Dramatic evidence accumulatesof how severely the buildings — especially the SuburbanBaths, which were built out to meet the shoreline at aperiod when the sea had retreated — were later damagedas the land rose and the sea returned. This is the result ofthe phenomenon called bradyseism whereby the earth’scrust rises and falls in the build-up to an eruption. Themost unexpected find has been the remains of thecollapsed roof of a nearby building, tossed by the force ofthe firestorm of a pyroclastic surge to the beach downbelow. It is possible from this find to reconstruct theentire carpentry of a Roman roof, including its wood-panelled ceiling.

The second principal area of work has been on thenorth-western edge of the site, were preliminary work isunderway to assess the possibilities of new excavation ofthe Basilica. A georadar survey by the BSR/ArchaeologicalProspection Services Southampton team gave impressivebut rather impenetrable results. Reopening the Bourbontunnels has cast a flood of light. The old tunnels are morenumerous and complex than anyone had imagined, averitable rabbit-warren; the pottery left behind in thebackfill suggests people had been exploring long before theofficial start of excavations under the Bourbons in 1738. Arich harvest of other finds includes some fragmentary

inscriptions and the gemstone from a signet. The walls ofthe tunnels have exposed some rich fresco-work. The mostimpressive find, however, came not from this area, butfrom the western edge of the town, where our team weregiving assistance: a brilliant insight by Mimmo Esposito ledto the discovery of a fine ‘neo-Attic’ marble relief.

The project has involved increasingly close collaborationwith the personnel of the Soprintendenza, especially the sitedirector, Maria Paola Guidobaldi, and above all theSoprintendente himself, Piero Guzzo. Without his vision,courage and determination, this project could never havehappened, and he will be sorely missed on his retirementthis September. We are also indebted to the Comune ofErcolano, and its Mayor, Nino Daniele, for enthusiasticallyembracing the project, and promoting the new InternationalStudy Centre to bring about closer links between theinternational world of specialists and visitors and the localcommunity. Work is now finished on the restoration of theVilla Maiuri, where the previous study centre, named afterthe great archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri, had its seat; and welook forward to moving into these new premises in theautumn. Our warmest thanks go to the Mayor and his staff,to the Soprintendenza, to the tireless members of theproject team led by Jane Thompson, and above all to Davidand Pam Packard, without whose enthusiasm and supportthere would literally be no project.

Andrew Wallace-HadrillDirector, Herculaneum Conservation Project

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Right: Excavation ofancient shore beneaththe house of theTelephus Relief,Herculaneum

Far right: Excavation of roof timbers fallento the shore from thehouse of the TelephusRelief, Herculaneum

Left: Detail of columnwith lion masks fromfrescoed wall in theBasilica,Herculaneum

Right: Reopening ofBourbon tunnels inthe Basilica,Herculaneum

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Left: Discovery of neo-Atticrelief in house in south-westcorner of Herculaneum

Above: Detail of two headsfrom the same relief

Left: MimmoCamardo inspectsmarble plaquefrom the Basilica,Herculaneum,with faded inkinscription

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DonorsDonors to the BSR in 2008–9 include: Mrs Diana Baring;Mr John Beale; The Brit ish Council ; The Clarke-Molyneux Trust; The Faculty of Classics, Cambridge; MrLuca Cerizza; The John S. Cohen Foundation; Mr GiffordCombs; The Marc Fitch Fund; The Gladstone MemorialTrust; The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust; Mr PeterJohnson; The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British

Art; Mrs G.M. Muinzer; Mr Morton Neal ; PARC:Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali; Mr A.H.A.Osborn; The Craven Committee, Oxford; St John’sCollege, Oxford; The Society of Dilettanti; The Societyfor the Promotion of Roman Studies; Mr Peter Spring;Studio Legale Dalla Vedova; Ms Vanessa SomersVreeland.

The principle effort of those working on thedevelopment programme this year has been ensuring

that the joint British School at Rome–Sir John Soane’sMuseum exhibition, Immagini e Memoria, Rome in thePhotographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey 1890–1901, wasproperly funded and well organised. This has meant closeco-operation between the Librarian and the Chair ofDevelopment. Last year’s promotional event at the John andVirginia Murray Centre was the starting-point for thecreation of a supportive group of funders. These kind well-wishers helped with both the costs of bringing over anexpanded version of the original Rome exhibition and alsothe creation of a scholarly and beautifully producedcatalogue edited by the exhibition curator, Valerie Scott(BSR Librarian), with a fascinating introduction andcatalogue entries by Robert Coates-Stephens, BSR CaryFellow. Thus sufficient funds, that virtually covered thecosts, were raised with the hope of a profit through the salesof the catalogue (to be re-invested in other Library andArchive initiatives). Generous individuals includedProfessor and Mrs Peter Wiseman and Mr Gifford Combs;and a particularly supportive trust was the Paul MellonCentre for Studies in British Art.

The exhibition, held at Sir John Soane’s Museum inLincoln’s Inn Fields between 19 June and 12 September,was launched with an agreeable party for friends andsupporters of both organisations. It provided an excellent

occasion for the BSR to connect with its UK friends andsupporters. Shortly after this the Museum hosted a specialevening event, linked to the exhibition, and generouslyencouraged the BSR to invite a select group of donors to areception and a lecture about the wider context of theexhibition by Valerie Scott. The occasion was greatlyenjoyed by guests of each institution, among which therewas a not-altogether surprising overlap in interests. TheBSR hopes that this will be the first of many collaborationswith Sir John Soane’s Museum, both in London and inRome.

Through the year various institutional and otherunrestricted personal donations have been received. Two ofthe latter were from relatives of former scholars from manydecades ago. Their charming letters once again underscorethe importance of maintaining links with alumni and friendsof the BSR.

Our thanks, as always, go to incredibly supportive staffboth in Rome, particularly Elly Murkett and Alvise DiGiulio, and in London, where special thanks go to Dr GillClark, who was a staunch ally in promoting the Mackeyexhibition.

Jill PellewChair of Development

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Balsdon FellowMichael Bury (University of Edinburgh)

Divergent judgements: works of art in contention, Rome 1540–1610

Hugh Last FellowDr Stephen Heyworth (University of Oxford)

A commentary on Ovid, Fasti 3

Paul Mellon Centre Rome FellowDr William Eisler (Musée Monetaire Cantonal, Lausanne)

The medals of Martin Folkes: art, Newtonian science and Masonicsociability in the age of the Grand Tour

A.D. Trendall FellowDr Lisa Beaven (La Trobe University)

The market in Rome for antiquities and their illegal exportation in thesecond half of the seventeenth century

Rome FellowsDr Carrie Churnside (University of Birmingham)

The seventeenth-century sacred cantata in the papal statesDr Emiliano Perra (University of Bristol)

The Holocaust in Italian television

Rome ScholarsDr Meaghan McEvoy (University of Oxford)

The resurgence of Rome in the fifth century AD

Dr Lucy Turner Voakes (European University Institute, Florence)The Risorgimento and English Liberal culture, 1850–1918

Ralegh Radford Rome ScholarDr Marden Nichols (University of Cambridge)

The Odyssey frieze, a Roman wall-painting of the first century BCE

considered in a spatial and cultural context

Macquarie University Gale ScholarDuncan Keenan-Jones (Macquarie University)

The Aqua Augusta. Regional water supply in Roman and late antiqueCampania: an historical and archaeometrical study

Rome AwardeesCaillan Davenport (University of Oxford)

New élites in Rome and Italy, AD 235–337Dr Claire Holleran (King’s College London/University of Liverpool)

Shopping in ancient Rome

Elizabeth Munro (University of Oxford)Recycling the Roman villa: the use of architectural components as rawmaterials for small-scale production in the late Roman period

Edward Payne (Courtauld Institute)Violence and corporality in the art of Jusepe de Ribera

Tim Potter Memorial AwardeeAlun Williams (Cardiff University)

Colonization in the western Mediterranean: case-studies of Greek,Roman and Phoenician colonies in Italy, Sicily and Sardinia

Melbourne Rome ScholarMark Shepheard (University of Melbourne)

Musicians and artists at the court of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni inRome, 1689–1740

Giles Worsley Travel FellowRebecca Madgin (Universities of Leicester/East London/Glasgow)

The contemporary value of industrial architecture — the OstienseQuarter

Youth Music Foundation of Australia ScholarSuzanne Shakespeare

Research FellowsDr Patrizia Cavazzini

The painter Agostino Tassi; the art market in RomeDr Roberto Cobianchi

Ceremonies for canonisation in Renaissance RomeDr Elizabeth Fentress

Roman archaeologyDr Inge Lyse Hansen

Provincial identity and patronage in the Greek eastDr Andrew Hopkins

Committenza architettonica fra Venezia e Roma nel SeicentoDr Clare Hornsby

Roman topography studied through maps in the BSR Library RareBooks collection

Dr Helen LangdonThe painters Salvator Rosa and Claude Lorrain

Dr Lori-Ann TouchetteAncient Roman art

Dr Karin WolfeThe Venetian painter Francesco Trevisani

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T he autumn began with a visit by Lord and LadySainsbury of Preston Candover with family and friends,

including artist Anthony Fry (Rome Scholar 1950). Tripswere organised to the Castel Sant’Angelo, the GiovanniBellini exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale and the JuliusCaesar exhibition at the Chiostro del Bramante. Award-holders were active in promoting their research: MardenNichols, Caillan Davenport, Claire Holleran and AlunWilliams all gave papers at meetings of the AssociazioneInternazionale di Archeologia Classica. Rebecca Madginspoke at a conference in Liverpool and took up a post at theUniversity of Glasgow on leaving Rome. Carrie Churnsideorganised several outings to musical events in Rome.Meaghan McEvoy, Marden Nichols and Lucy Turner Voakeswere awarded their PhDs along with Matthew Dal Santo andFrances Parton — both Awardees in 2007–8. Meaghan willgo to a Dumbarton Oaks fellowship in autumn 2009,followed by a three-year British Academy post-doctoralfellowship. Duncan Keenan-Jones delivered a thought-provoking lecture on aqueducts and spoke at a conference inBari. Stephen Heyworth was a generous contributor to theCity of Rome course, and both Meaghan and Marden gavetheir final lectures in that programme. Especially notable thisyear was the diversity of the scholars’ research, with subjectsfrom the first century BC to present-day Italy. YMFA ScholarSuzanne Shakespeare performed a diverse programme ofarias for soprano, accompanied by local pianist and singer,Yuri Takenaka. Last year’s YMFA Scholar, StefanCassomenos, returned to Italy in spring 2009 with the YarraChamber Orchestra, of which he is a founding member, andgave a welcome, impromptu performance.

David Forgacs began the 2008–9 lecture programme witha lecture on the treatment of patients in Italian psychiatrichospitals from 1967 to 1977, speaking later in the year withhis guest, Mario Sanfilippo, on slums and socialinvestigation in Rome from 1871 to 1921, both part of his‘Language, Space and Power in Italy since 1800’ researchproject. Maureen Carroll (Sheffield), returning in November

to complete her Balsdon Fellowship, spoke on death, burialand commemoration of newborns and infants in RomanItaly. Caspar Pearson (Essex) gave the inaugural W.T.C.Walker Lecture: this will be an annual event, supported by abequest from the architect William Thomas Christie Walker(BSR Rome Prize 1937–9), to further the study of classicaland Renaissance architecture. In November we alsowelcomed visiting speakers Pamela M. Jones (Massachusetts,Boston) and Ronald T. Ridley (Melbourne; A.D. TrendallFellow 2002) who both gave stimulating lectures. PaulMellon Centre Rome Fellow William Eisler (MuséeMonetaire Cantonal, Lausanne) concluded the autumnprogramme, speaking on art, science and Freemasonry ineighteenth-century Rome.

It was an art historical winter with lectures from BSRResearch Fellows Helen Langdon and Karin Wolfe, as wellas the presentation of The Invention of Annibale Carracci byformer BSR Research Fellow and current FAHL memberClare Robertson (Reading), with speakers David Marshall(BSR Honorary Fellow; Melbourne), Patrizia Cavazzini(BSR Research Fellow) and Balsdon Fellow Michael Bury,who in March asked a crowded lecture theatre ‘Why wasMichelangelo’s Last Judgement controversial?’. Michael joinedDavid Marshall to conduct an informal seminar on printsfrom the Library’s Rare Book collection for University ofMelbourne students and BSR residents. Michael also led atour of several of Rome’s Counter-Reformation churches.David Rundle was this year’s Society of Renaissance Studiesspeaker, with a fascinating lecture on British scholars andRenaissance Humanism. The winter programme concludedwith another well-attended book presentation, BSRResearch Fellow Patrizia Cavazzini’s Painting as Business inEarly Seventeenth-century Rome, with speakers Pamela M. Jones(Massachusetts, Boston) and Claudia Conforti (Roma, TorVergata).

A highlight of the year was the conference ‘Architecture,Diplomacy, and National Identity: Sir Basil Spence and Mid-century Modernism’, organised by Louise Campbell

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(Warwick) and supported by the Arts and HumanitiesResearch Council and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies inBritish Art. Keynote speaker Gavin Stamp spoke on‘Lutyens and Spence’ to a large audience, and special visitswere made to Sir Basil Spence’s British Embassy in Romeand to the nearby Danish Academy, designed by Kay Fisker,a superb example of Modernist architecture. The latter tourwas generously conducted by the Director of the DanishAcademy, Erik Bach.

Two special events concluded the year. The lecture theatrewas packed for Andrew Wallace-Hadrill’s final lecture asDirector, followed by drinks on the terrace and a buffetdinner in the cortile, which were enjoyed by numerous distin-guished guests. Our cooks and waiting staff are to becomplimented. A more informal farewell was organised bythe award-holders. Headed by Stephen Heyworth, theHumanities award-holders prepared an excellent meal thatpreceded entertainment devised by Marden Nichols, with bothHumanities and Fine Arts award-holders performing tableauxvivants based on her year’s project, the Odyssey frieze.

Site visits included a combined Humanities and Fine Artsvisit to Parma and Vicenza for, respectively, Correggio andPalladio exhibitions; Approdo Romano visits to Lake

Trasimeno and Cortona; Arezzo for the Della Robbiaexhibition and a morning visit to the costume collection ofthe House of Tirelli; Monte Testaccio; the Palazzo Farnese;the Palazzo Valentini; the Palazzo Costaguti; Villa Falconieriand Villa Sacchetti; the Roman house under Santa MariaMaggiore; the Palazzo Spada and many others organised byindividual scholars. Frank Sear (Rome Scholar 1968; HughLast Fellow 1994) was especially active in organising trips toancient sites during his spring visit.

Susan RussellAssistant Director

Taught CoursesA record 54 students applied to the School’s undergraduateSummer School in September 2008, which was directed byMatthew Nicholls (Reading) and Robert Coates-Stephens. 25were selected, from the universities of Birmingham, Bristol,Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London,Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, St Andrews and Warwick.The Gladstone prize was awarded to Rebecca Usherwood,of Nottingham University. The course is generouslysupported by the Society for the Promotion of RomanStudies, the Craven Committee at Oxford, the Faculty ofClassics at Cambridge and the Gladstone Memorial Trust.

The itineraries were arranged thematically, a method thathas proved most successful for introducing large groups ofundergraduates (generally more familiar with texts thantopography) to the complexities and richness of the city ofRome. ‘Themed’ days included: the Tiber and provisioningRome, politics and the Forum, war and the triumph, the cityand the urban plebs, roads and cemeteries, and thetransformations of late antiquity. Visits out of Romeincluded Ostia, the Isola Sacra and Tivoli. The coursedirectors provided a series of nine supplementary lectures tointroduce each itinerary. Notwithstanding the group’s largesize, we were lucky enough to be guided around the new

BSR residents visiting the Meeting Room of the Council of State,Palazzo Spada

excavations at the Forum of Caesar by Alessandro Delfino,and Janet Delaine, on a short visit to Rome, was kindenough to share her expertise during the trip to Hadrian’sVilla at Tivoli.

The School’s City of Rome postgraduate course runsannually through April and May, providing students ofclassics, ancient history and archaeology with a fullimmersion in the topography, art and architecture of thecity, from its origins to the end of the empire (although laterperiods are by no means neglected). In 2009 eleven studentsattended, from the universities of Cardiff, Exeter,Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Southampton, St Andrewsand Warwick. The course was directed by Robert Coates-Stephens and administered by Elly Murkett. Chris Siwickiprovided welcome logistical support and Maria Pia Malvezziarranged the permits for access to restricted monumentswith efficiency and diplomacy. Geraldine Wellington saw tothe hostel arrangements with effortless authority.

Since site visits form the key element of the teaching, theBSR is able to exploit fully its unique contacts with Rome’sarchaeological authorities and academic institutions in settingout a wide-ranging programme of itineraries and excavationtours. Highlights in 2009 included a detailed exposition ofthe important but rarely seen remains of the Temple ofApollo Palatinus (with Stephan Zink), visits to theexcavations of Portus (Simon Keay and Stephen Kay) andthe port of Ardea (Letizia Ceccarelli), and an illuminatingsurvey of the Byzantine frescoes at Santa Maria Antiqua(David Knipp). Cinzia Conti authorised a rare permit for thegroup to ascend the spiral staircase of the Column of MarcusAurelius. Of the more unusual sites visited there were theinsula beneath the Palazzo Spada, which collapsed in anearthquake at the end of antiquity, its mosaic floors lyingsuperimposed like dominoes, the Catacombs of Praetextatusand Vigna Randanini, and the art nouveau ceramicsworkshop of Francesco Randone (grandfather of LucosCozza, BSR Honorary Fellow), installed in the towers of theAurelianic Walls near the Porta Pinciana.

The lecture series gave the students the opportunity tohear at first-hand from some of the giants of Italianacademe: Andrea Carandini, Filippo Coarelli, Eugenio LaRocca and Mario Torelli – as well as the next Director ofthe BSR, Christopher Smith. The less formal atmosphere ofthe seminar series enabled the class to interact with youngerscholars at the School, as well as with visiting scholarsPenelope Davies, Stephen Heyworth and Frank Sear.

The BSR Library proved as important a resource to thestudents as the monuments themselves. Notwithstandingpressures caused by the intense influx of external readersseeking refuge from building works at other foreignacademy libraries, Valerie Scott and her staff provided fullaccess to the collections, and by the course’s end a fineseries of essays had been produced on such topics as theSullan building programme, the origins and development ofthe Jewish and Christian catacombs, and the frieze ofTrajan’s Column. As in previous years, we are grateful forthe support of the Society for the Promotion of RomanStudies. Above all, we thank Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, whoin 1996 conceived the course, so providing this rareopportunity to promising young scholars and futuregenerations of academics over the last fourteen years.

Robert Coates-StephensCary Fellow

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Students on the City of Rome course on a visit to the port of Ardea,led by Letizia Ceccarelli

I completed my last year at the BSR as Research Professorin Modern Studies engaged on the three-year project

‘Language, Space and Power in Italy since 1800’. The finalstages involved a second round of filmed interviews withrecent migrants from Romania, as well as with some oftheir Italian neighbours, in three suburban areas of Rome.It also involved research on photographic representationin Italy’s colonies during the 1930s. For the latter I usedthe archives in Rome of the Società Geografica Italiana,Istituto Italo-Africano, Archivio dell’Ufficio Storico delloStato Maggiore dell’Esercito and Istituto Luce. I alsoworked in the archive of the Institute of Ethiopian Studiesin Addis Ababa, which contains an important collection ofunofficial photographs confiscated from Italian soldiers atthe time of the liberation of Ethiopia in 1941 by theBritish army and Ethiopian patriots. Some of thesematerials will be used in the book arising from theresearch and the exhibition that will open at the BSR on25 June 2010, together with photographs and film extractsrelating to the other three main case-studies in the researchproject: slum housing in Rome in the late nineteenth andearly twentieth centuries, ethnographic investigations ofrural areas in the south of Italy in the 1950s, andpsychiatric institutions and the movement to close them inthe 1960s and 1970s.

The remainder of my time on the project was spent onthe dissemination of the research findings both within theBSR and outside. Between October 2008 and May 2009 Igave three lectures at the BSR on the three main strandsof the research. In November I talked at the BritishAcademy about Italy’s new anti-immigrant policies. InJanuary I began planning the exhibition for the summerof 2010, and managed to secure the collaboration of threeaudiovisual and photographic archives: Teche Rai, theIstituto Luce, and the Laboratorio per la Ricerca eDocumentazione Audiovisiva (Roma Tre). In July Ifinished the illustrated book arising from the project,entitled Italy Family Album: Texts and Images on the Margins,

1861–2010, for which I have a publishing agreement withCambridge University Press. Lastly, I began organising theconference related to the themes of the research, to beheld at the BSR on 24–25 June 2010. As well as sendinginvitations to selected speakers, I circulated two calls forpapers, in April and June 2009. Over 100 proposals weresubmitted, of which no more than 35 can be included,and a provisional conference schedule is now in place.

I considers my three years based at the BSR to have beenwithout doubt the best research opportunity I have had inmy academic career since I finished my doctorate in 1978,as well as a uniquely rewarding social and intellectualexperience. I have had time and freedom to think, read,look at images, listen to people, exchange ideas with expertsand write. I hope I have been able to contribute to theSchool and its community as much as I have taken from itin ideas, suggestions and stimulation.

David ForgacsResearch Professor in Modern Studies

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Courtyard of a tenement in Via di Porta Labicana, Rome, before andafter risanamento in 1909

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND RELATED EVENTS:Drawn Encounters, Complex Identities. Two-day conference in

collaboration with The Centre for Drawing, University of theArts, London and the Faculty of Art and Design, MonashUniversity, Melbourne

Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica XVI Congress ofClassical Archaeology: Meetings between Cultures in the AncientMediterranean. Poster session hosted by the BSR

Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica meeting:Incontri, chaired by Massimiliano Papini, with a contributionfrom Marden Nichols (BSR; Cambridge)

Identifying the Punic Mediterranean. Two-day conference sponsoredby the BSR and the Society for Libyan Studies

Architecture, Diplomacy, and National Identity: Sir Basil Spence and Mid-century Modernism. Two-day conference organised by LouiseCampbell (Warwick)

Presentation of The Invention of Annibale Carracci by ClareRobertson, with contributions from Michael Bury (BSR;Edinburgh), Patrizia Cavazzini (BSR) and David Marshall(BSR; Melbourne)

Current Research at Portus. One-day workshop organised by BSRand the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia

VI Incontro di Studi sul Lazio e la Sabina. Day two of a three-dayconference in collaboration with the Soprintendenza per i BeniArcheologici del Lazio

Presentation of Painting as Business in Early Seventeenth-century Romeby Patrizia Cavazzini (BSR), with contributions from PamelaM. Jones (Massachusetts, Boston) and Claudia Conforti (Rome,Tor Vergata)

Urban Landscape Survey. Second Valle Giulia Meeting. Day three of athree-day conference in collaboration with the AcademiaBelgica and Reale Istituto Neerlandese a Roma

Press launch of the exhibition Falacrinae. Le origini di Vespasiano

ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY LECTURESMaureen Carroll (BSR; Sheffield): ‘Too young for the funeral

pyre’. The death, burial and commemoration of newbornchildren and infants in Roman Italy

Helen Patterson (BSR): The late antique and early medievallandscapes of the middle Tiber Valley

Daniela Giampaola (Soprintendenza Archeologica di Napoli): Laricostruzione del paesaggio costiero di Neapolis e lo scavo delporto antico

Duncan Keenan-Jones (BSR; Macquarie): Water sources and leadpoisoning in Pompeii and Herculaneum. New findings fromtrace element and lead isotope analysis of sinter deposits

Stephen Heyworth (BSR; Oxford): Locum tua tempora poscunt:topography in Ovid’s Fasti

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (BSR): Ercolano: un futuro per ilpassato?

HISTORY OF ART, HUMANITIES AND MODERN STUDIES LECTURESDavid Forgacs (BSR; UCL): Mad world: photographs and oral

testimonies of patients in Italian psychiatric hospitals 1967–77Pamela M. Jones (Massachusetts, Boston): Bare feet, humility, and

the Passion of Christ in the cults of Carlo Borromeo and MaryMagdalene in Seicento Rome

Caspar Pearson (Essex): Inaugural W.T.C. Walker Lecture, ‘Whatgoes up ...’: Leon Battista Alberti on building and destruction

Ronald T. Ridley (Melbourne): The prince as poisoner, the ‘trial’of Prince Chigi in Rome, 1790

William Eisler (BSR; Musée Monetaire Cantonal, Lausanne): Theconstruction of the image of Martin Folkes (1690–1754): art,science and Freemasonry in the age of the Grand Tour

Helen Langdon (BSR): Caravaggio and Spanish NaplesKarin Wolfe (BSR): Francesco Trevisani (1656–1746): portrait of

a painterDavid Rundle (Society for Renaissance Studies): The British at

school in Rome, c. 1450 or, the barbarians’ role in Renaissancehumanism

David Forgacs (BSR; UCL) and Mario Sanfilippo (ex-Trieste):Slums and social investigation in Rome 1871–1921

Michael Bury (BSR; Edinburgh): Why was Michelangelo’s LastJudgement controversial?

David Forgacs (BSR; UCL): Fortress Italy: ‘clandestini’ and ‘rom’in contemporary political and media discourse

Emiliano Perra (BSR; Bristol): The banality of goodness: thereinvention of the ‘rescuer’ in RAI programmes on theHolocaust

Lucy Turner Voakes (BSR; EUI, Florence): George Macaulay

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Trevelyan’s Garibaldi Trilogy: history, poetry and publicmoralism

Carrie Churnside (BSR; Birmingham): ‘Che Roma viva di sensipriva è van pensier’: the seventeenth-century sacred cantata inthe Papal States

CITY OF ROME POSTGRADUATE COURSE LECTURES AND SEMINARSAndrea Carandini and Daniela Bruno (Rome ‘La Sapienza’): La

Casa di Augusto. Procedura di ricostruzione e novitàRobert Coates-Stephens (BSR): Sources for Roman topographyPenelope Davies (Texas): Architecture in Republican RomeMarden Nichols (BSR; Cambridge): The Odyssey frieze: on

Roman timeFabio Barry (St Andrews): Materials and materiality in Roman

architecture and constructionFilippo Coarelli (Perugia): Equus DomitianiDuncan Keenan-Jones (BSR; Macquarie): Water-systems and the

Roman water-supplyEugenio La Rocca (Rome ‘La Sapienza’): Templum Gentis FlaviaeChristopher Smith (St Andrews): Mid-Republican views of

Roman expansion and Roman territory: some thoughtsRossella Rea, Raffaella La Pasta and Mariateresa Martines

(Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma):Metropolitana di Roma Linea C, indagini archeologichepreventive. Da via Casilina Vecchia al Colosseo. Risultati 2006–9

Mario Torelli (Perugia): Haruspices of the emperors. TarquitiusPriscus and Sejanus’s conspiracy

Frank Sear (Melbourne): Roman theatresMeaghan McEvoy (BSR; Oxford): Rome and the transformation

of the imperial office in the late-fourth to mid-fifth centuries AD

Sue Russell (BSR): Pirro Ligorio as architect and archaeologist

ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE EVENTSPresentation of Cucchi/Sottsas by Enzo CucchiDavid Spero: Churches. Exhibition as part of Fotografia 2009Fine Arts Awardees’ ExhibitionsSeptember 2008: Tempo Reale; Cath Keay, Amanda Marburg, Liz

Rideal, Christopher Cook, Richard Kirwan, Tony LloydDecember 2008: Figure of 8; Joseph Bedford, Penelope Cain,

Dragica Janketic Carlin, Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton,

Rebecca Madgin, Ruth Murray, Eddie Peake, Liz Rideal March 2009: Our Lives are Full of Remarkable Coincidences; Sara

Barker, Joseph Bedford, Gabriella Bisetto, Luke Caulfield,Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, Cath Keay, Eddie Peake, JamesRobertson

June 2009: Don’t look away; Joseph Bedford, Katie Cuddon,Graham Durward, Pierre Gendron, Celia Hempton, EddiePeake, David Spero, Amikam Toren

Architecture Programme ‘LONDON–ROME: WORK IN PROCESS’ Tom Coward and Daisy Froud (AOC): Lecture and exhibition,

Cultural ApproachesKevin Carmody and Andy Groarke (Carmody Groarke): Lecture

and exhibition, Time ScaleAndrea Stipa (Andrea Stipa Architettura): Lecture and exhibition,

Inside Out

MUSIC EVENTSPerformance: Arias for sopranos, by Suzanne Shakespeare (BSR),

accompanied by Yuri Takenaka

UK EVENTSInsiders/Outsiders in Rome through the Ages

Outsiders or insiders in society and the cemetery? Evidencefor the burial and commemoration of newborns and infantsin Rome and Roman Italy

Maureen Carroll, Balsdon Fellow 2007–8‘These northern artists who come and go withoutregulation’: northern painters at the Academy of Saint Luke,1590–1630

Lucy Davis, Rome Fellow 2007–8It has to be this way

Lindsay Seers, Wingate Rome Scholar 2007–8Spatial traslation

Prisca Thielmann, Rome Scholar in Architecture 2007–8Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (BSR): Herculaneum: a future for the past? Exhibitions in the series ‘Immagini e memoria’Immagini e Memoria: Rome in the Photographs of Father Peter Paul

Mackey 1890–1901, at Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, andaccompanying lecture by Valerie Scott (BSR)

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A rchaeology enjoyed yet another successful year ofactivity. Work focused primarily upon its flagship research

programme — the Roman Ports Project — which involved allstaff in a second season of excavation and survey at Portus.There was also a first meeting of active participants in theRoman Port Networks in the Mediterranean. Archaeology wassuccessful in broadening the remit of its activities in thewestern Mediterranean, and in hosting major conferences andworkshops in collaboration with the Society for Libyan Studiesand with other institutions and foreign academies in Rome.

THE ROMAN PORTS PROJECTThis project, directed by Simon Keay, is enhancing ourunderstanding of Portus, the port of Imperial Rome, throughexcavation, survey and the analysis of finds. It also exploresPortus’s relationship to other ports across the Mediterranean.

Excavations and Survey at Portus and in its HinterlandThese were directed by Simon Keay and Graeme Earl(Southampton), assisted by Dott.ssa Lidia Paroli(Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia) andfunded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council(AHRC), the BSR , the Soprintendenza per i BeniArcheologici di Ostia and the Universities of Southamptonand Cambridge. They drew upon the collaboration ofParsifal Cooperativa di Archeologia (Rome), and involvedparticipants from the Universities of Southampton,Cambridge, Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Aix-en-Provence, Lyon,Tarragona and Seville. The results of all the 2008 campaignswere presented at the second Portus Workshop, which washeld at the BSR in February 2009.

Palazzo ImperialeOur main effort continues to be targeted upon the PalazzoImperiale, a key three-storey complex at the centre of theport that overlooked both the Claudian and Trajanic basins.Our findings are beginning to suggest that it was completedin the last years of the reign of the Emperor Trajan (AD

98–117) and that it may have been conceived as a complexthat served as both a temporary residence for reigningemperors on their way to and from Rome, and for theimperial official (procurator) responsible for managing Portusas a whole. Our work throughout the year also includedintensive topographical and geophysical surveys of the mainbody of the Palazzo Imperiale and adjacent buildings, inorder to understand better their layout and to facilitate theirreconstruction in a virtual reality environment.

The focus of the most intensive work, however, remainedthe eastern edge of the Palazzo Imperiale, where work beganin 2007. Excavations and survey took place over six weeks.The site was visited by a number of Italian archaeologistsfrom the Soprintendenze of Ostia and Rome, and from theUniversità di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, as well as colleagues fromthe Universities of Cologne, Oxford, Cambridge, Aix-en-Provence and Texas, and from the Institut Catalàd’Arqueologia Clàssica and the Swedish Institute in Rome.

One key area comprised the cisterns that lay on the northernside of the first-century AD channel that was first uncovered in2007. These marked the eastern limit of a line of structures thatoriginally would have extended along the northern façade of thePalazzo Imperiale overlooking the Claudian basin. It now seemscertain that they were constructed during the Trajanic andHadrianic periods, undergoing a series of importantmodifications down into the late antique period. During aninitial stage at least they may have been used to provide freshwater for ships leaving Portus on their homeward journeys.

Attention was also directed towards the south side of thechannel in order to locate its edge and learn more about thelayout of the port between it and the Trajanic basin. Whilethe channel still proved elusive, the excavations did uncoverthe northern face of a massive rectangular building ofTrajanic date along its south side. A combination ofexcavation, ground-penetrating radar, resistancetomography and topographic survey suggest that this wasconceived as a single two- or three-storey structure, possiblya warehouse or barrack block, that was circa 80 metres wide,

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ran in an east to west direction for some 250 metres andwas composed of a series of parallel corridors running fromnorth to south for its entire length. Analysis of the façadethat opened on to the channel revealed that the buildingunderwent major changes during the course of the Imperialperiod, culminating in the later fifth century AD, when it wasincorporated into the defensive fortification (muracostantiniane) that encircled the port complex as a whole.

Excavations also confirmed that during the Severanperiod the channel was backfilled with sand and thencovered over with a large (42 metres x 35 metres) oval-planbuilding. This probably can be identified as a smallamphitheatre (ludus). It has important implications for ourunderstanding of the Palazzo Imperiale and adjacentbuildings, given that structures of this kind are oftenassociated with Imperial palaces at Rome, such as the earlythird–century AD Palazzo Sessoriano, and militarycomplexes, such as the Castra Praetoria.

In addition to this work, attention was also directedtowards further understanding late Imperial levels, not leastincluding the excavation of a series of late antique burialsoutside the mura costantiniane. The work on the excavation wascomplemented by a programme of environmental coring byJ.-P. Goiran (Lyon) in an attempt to understand better theenvironmental context of the port: six cores of up to tenmetres depth were taken at different points across theexcavation and surrounding area. In addition, samples of thepine and oak were taken from cladding around the inside ofthe Hadrianic cistern for dendrochronological dating andsourcing work (carried out by S. Manning, Cornell University).

The Trajanic BasinA team led by Justin Dix (National Oceanographic Centre,Southampton) undertook a sub-bottom sonar survey of theTrajanic basin in order to reveal the depth and profile of thebasin, and its relationship with the Palazzo Imperiale. Initial

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Above: White marble head from excavations at PortusRight: General view of the concentric oval walls of theLudus at Portus

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results are encouraging, shedding light upon the depth ofsediment at the bottom of the lake, and providing us withthe information needed to plan future underwaterinvestigations. We would like to express our gratitude toDuke Ascanio Sforza Cesarini for granting us access to hisproperty to undertake the survey.

The Portus Hinterland SurveyThis focuses upon the Isola Sacra, a key land-bridge lyingbetween Portus and Ostia, that has considerable potentialfor enhancing our understanding of the relationshipbetween both ports. The first two seasons of geophysicalsurvey were undertaken in the northern sector in 2008 and2009, and were directed by Martin Millett (Cambridge) KrisStrutt, Archaeological Prospection Services, Southampton(APSS), Paola Germoni (Soprintendenza per i BeniArcheologici di Ostia) and Simon Keay. The results areshedding important light upon the hinterland of thesettlement and the adjacent cemetery lying on the south sideof the Fossa Traiana. The second season of survey (March2009) focused upon the western part of the isola, which laybetween the area surveyed in 2008 and the excavatedcemetery. The most notable discovery here was a large canalor body of water of uncertain function, circa 80 metres wide,lying to the west of the statio marmorum and to the south ofthe Fossa Traiana. This seems to have been integral to thereplanning of Portus under Trajan, and is bound to shedimportant light upon the functioning of Portus and itsrelationship with Ostia. The survey also revealed traces of asection of the Via Flavia that ran between Portus and Ostia.

Roman Port NetworksThis sub-project explores changing economic relationshipsbetween Portus and other mediterranean Roman ports. It isbeing funded by the University of Southampton and theInstitut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, and is supported bytwo PhD students. Following upon the success of the 2008workshop, this year saw some twenty colleagues from

universities and research institutions throughout Europeand the Mediterranean meet at the BSR to develop aprotocol and timetable for the sharing of amphora andmarble data from port sites across the Mediterranean withina Semantic Web environment, with a view to a majorinternational conference at the BSR (2011) and subsequentpublication.

West Mediterranean Port HinterlandsThis sub-project aims to establish a mediterranean contextfor Portus by means of the geophysical analysis byBSR/APSS of the hinterlands of key provincial portssupplying Rome. Attention to date has been focused uponports in Italy, Iberia and North Africa. The most excitingdevelopment this year was a first season of geophysical andtopographical survey at Leptis Magna (Libya), focusingupon the coastline between the famous hunting baths to thewest and the amphitheatre at the eastern extremity. It wasundertaken on behalf of Marco Polo Storica incollaboration with the Università Roma Tre (Dott.ssa LuisaMusso), Thetis (Venice), the Libyan Department ofAntiquities at Leptis Magna (Dr Mehemed Massaud) andwith the support of the Society for Libyan Studies.

GEOPHYSICSOver the course of the year a series of surveys wasconducted at important sites throughout Italy, led by SophieHay (APSS) and Stephen Kay (BSR), and involving BSRstaff Elizabeth DeGaetano, Jessica Ogden, Leonie Pett,Giles Richardson and Gregory Tucker.

The team is applying the technique of ground-penetrating, specifically radar, on the site of the Temple ofthe Gens Flavia in the Piazza della Repubblica, within thelater Baths of Diocletian on behalf of Professor FilippoCoarelli; on the site of the Basilica Noniana at Herculaneumon behalf of the Director’s Herculaneum ConservationProject; in the vicinity of the Porta Stabia at Pompeii onbehalf of Dr Steven Ellis (Cincinnati), and at the site of Le

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Salzare at Fosso dell’Incastro near Ardea. This small riverport is currently being investigated by Dr Francesco DiMario (Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per il Lazio),and the survey focused on investigating the possible earlierphases of a Roman temple. Other sites investigated over thecourse of the year include Gabii (Lazio), where a 25-hectaresurvey was undertaken on behalf of Dr Nicola Terrenato(Michigan). This completed a study that was begun in 2007of the whole intramural area of the Latin town. It revealed,for the first time, the unique road network of the town,which had been heavily inf luenced by the naturaltopography of the site, which lies on the edge of thevolcanic crater of Lake Castiglione. This year also sawfurther survey in northern Campania, where the BSR wasinvited once again by the Comune di Atella (Ing. SalvatoreDi Costanzo) and the Soprintendenza per i BeniArcheologici di Caserta e Benevento (Dott.ssa ElenaLaforgia) to survey an area in the vicinity of the Romantown of Atella. The survey, applying both resistivity and

magnetometry, recorded the outbuildings of the medievalCasale di Teverolaccio.

The BSR is also one of a number of collaborators acrossEurope involved in a programme of applied geophysics atAmmaia in Portugal, in the context of the RADIO-PASTproject funded by the EU Framework 7 Marie Curiescheme, coordinated by the Universities of Ghent andEvora (Drs Frank Vermeulen and Cristina Corsi).

COLLABORATION WITH THE SOCIETY FOR LIBYAN STUDIESAs a further step in developing a closer relationship with theSociety for Libyan Studies, the BSR hosted a workshop inPunic archaeology in November 2008. This was organised by

Above: A pavement in opus sectile uncovered during the excavations atthe site of the Roman villa at San Lorenzo (Falacrinae)Left: Sections by resistance tomography of the Basilica, Herculaneum.The red areas indicate possible buried structures, while the blue areasindicate Bourbon tunnels

Andrew Wilson (Society for Libyan Studies) in conjunctionwith Josephine Quinn and Jonathan Prag (Oxford). It wasfunded by the British Academy as part of its Reconnecting theMediterranean initiative, and drew upon speakers fromuniversities in Italy, Malta, Spain, Tunisia and the UK.

OTHER FIELD PROJECTSThe fourth season of BSR excavations took place at the siteof Falacrinae, as part of the Vespasian Project directed by DrHelen Patterson (BSR Molly Cotton Fellow) and ProfessorFilippo Coarelli (Perugia). Excavations at the vicus shed lighton the earliest occupation at the site, as well as something ofthe non-urban character of the Roman vicus itself. The site ofthe Roman villa at San Lorenzo, being supervised byStephen Kay, with the support of BSR staff Roberta Cascinoand Cinzia Filippone, is now understood to have been amonumental complex, that developed through multiplephases, beginning under Augustus and growing throughoutthe Imperial period until its abandonment in the secondcentury AD although later reoccupied in the fourth centuryAD. The Imperial villa was dominated by a large courtyard,with a portico on at least one side, while to the west were theremains of a possible garden. The residential area of the villalay to the north, where the excavation revealed a whitemosaic floor, belonging to a second phase of occupation,and a luxurious marble floor in opus sectile. The site waseventually abandoned in the early fifth century AD, as isattested by a destruction layer of burnt roof timbers and thecollapsed roof, which sealed a layer rich in ceramics, coinsand bronze vessels. The BSR also supported the successfulcompletion of a further season of excavation at the villa ofEmperor Marcus Aurelius at Villa Magna (Anagni), directedby Dr Lisa Fentress.

CONFERENCESIn addition to those mentioned previously, the BSR hostedseveral other conferences and workshops in the course ofthe year, including the sixth Incontro di Studi sul Lazio e la

Sabina, and the second Valle Giulia workshop, UrbanLandscape Survey (March 2009) in conjunction with theBelgian and Dutch Academies. BSR staff were also busygiving papers and hosting sessions at a range of importantmeetings, including the AIAC XVI Congress of ClassicalArchaeolog y at Rome (September 2008), the Incontrisull’Archeologia dei Paesag gi workshop II at Salerno(November 2008), Geofisica per l’Archeologia at Rome hostedby CISTeC (December 2008), Computer Applications inArchaeology at Williamsburg, USA (April 2009), ASMOSIAat Tarragona (June 2009). Simon Keay gave the secondByvanck/BABESCH lecture on the Portus Project at theNational Archaeological Museum in Leiden in December2008. He was also invited by the Consejo Superior deInvestigaciones Científicas to evaluate the performance andstrategic plan (for the period 2010–13) for the EscuelaEspañola de Historia y Arqueología en Roma in Madrid(February 2009).

STAFFAfter two years’ outstanding work, Leonie Pett (GeophysicalResearch Assistant) left in late September 2008 to start aPhD at the University of Cambridge. Her position was filledby Gregory Tucker, a masters graduate in maritimearchaeology from the University of Southampton. ElizabethDe Gaetano (Geophysical Research Assistant) also departedin December 2008 after two years’ excellent work at theBSR after her successful application to the AHRC for fullfunding to complete her PhD at the University ofSouthampton. In January 2009 Jessica Ogden, who has justsuccessfully completed her MSc in ArchaeologicalComputing and Geophysics at the University ofSouthampton joined the geophysics team, while GilesRichardson (Geophysical Research Assistant) departed inorder to further his interest in underwater archaeology.

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FA C U LT Y O F AR C H A E O L O G Y, HI S T O RY A N D LE T T E R S

The Faculty opened its meeting on 4 March 2009 bythanking the School’s outgoing Director Andrew

Wallace-Hadrill for his ‘solicitous attention to theprofessional concerns of the Faculty over the past fourteenyears’. Behind this gesture and comment lies a great swatheof achievements on Andrew’s part that have hugelyenhanced the scholarship that we exist to support. It seemsalmost invidious to single out individual aspects, butperhaps I may be permitted to comment on two. First, theleadership Andrew has shown in developing modern studieswithin the School – aided, of course, by David Forgacs, whoreturns to his post at University College London at the endof this academic year and to whom the Faculty is alsoimmensely grateful. Second, there are the building projectsthat have seen the School’s Library and Lecture Theatrebecome facilities that can hardly be bettered among theforeign academies in Rome. It is a great credit to ValerieScott and her staff that the highest standard of support forscholarship is being maintained. Meanwhile, the LectureTheatre has proved so successful a venue that Council hashad to consider a strategic reduction of the programme thatthe admirable Sue Russell and her colleagues run.

Andrew’s period of time as Director has seen otherdevelopments. The Fellowship for Grand Tour or Anglo-Italian Cultural Studies, generously funded by the PaulMellon Centre for Studies in British Art, has now passed itstenth year with the tenure of William Eisler, whilst the newGiles Worsley Travel Fellowship was held in the autumn byRebecca Madgin. Rebecca gave a presentation about herwork to a large audience at Sotheby’s in London in Januaryand has gone straight on to a research fellowship at theUniversity of Glasgow. Meaghan McEvoy (Rome Scholar2008–9) will take up a British Academy PostdoctoralFellowship this coming autumn, while Claire Holleran(Rome Awardee 2008–9) has a Leverhulme Early CareerFellowship at the University of Liverpool and Emma-JayneGraham (Rome Fellow 2005–6), has been appointed to ateaching fellowship at the University of St Andrews. It is

also gratifying that we have been able to pick senior fellowswho have played important mentoring roles at the School inaddition to pursuing their own research. Balsdon FellowMichael Bury and Hugh Last Fellow Stephen Heyworth areto be greatly thanked for their efforts in this regard.

Thanks are also due to the two members of the Facultywhose five-year terms of office came to an end inDecember: Charles Burdett and Ruth Whitehouse. Inaddition, Martin Millett has had to step down from theFaculty this summer in order to take up the position ofChair of BASIS, the body of the British Academy throughwhich the School receives state support. They leave theFaculty as it continues to adjust to its new role overseeingthe School’s publications activities as well as awards andarchaeology. The early signs are that the new system isworking very well, with a great increase in the number andrange of colleagues able to have some input to the School’sacademic and publishing profile.

It is unfortunate to have to close this report by noting,however, that financial pressures stemming from reducedincome and an extremely detrimental sterling-euroexchange rate have begun to have an effect on the Faculty’sactivities. Our March meeting, principally held to awardScholarships, Fellowships and Grants for 2009–10 (andmasterminded as efficiently as ever by the exceptionalRegistrar Gill Clark) saw a strong field of applicants butwas followed by the disappointment of discovering thatCouncil could fund only four of the top five candidates tobe dispatched to Rome. This situation makes it even moreimperative for Faculty to keep in mind the need forexternal support for the humanities. If there is one thingreaders of this report can do to help, it is to let us know oforganisations or individuals who might be prevailed uponto give some support to the humanities activities of theBritish School at Rome that we all value so highly.

Frank SalmonChair, Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters

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Abbey Fellows in PaintingDragica Janketic CarlinLuke CaulfieldGraham Durward

Abbey Scholar in PaintingEddie Peake

Arts Council England Helen Chadwick FellowCath Keay

Australia Council ResidentsKimberlee AndersonGabriella BisettoPenelope Cain

Derek Hill Foundation Scholar in PortraitureRuth Murray

Photoworks FellowDavid Spero

Quebec Architecture ResidentPierre Gendron

Rome Scholar in ArchitectureJames Robertson

Rome Scholar in the Fine ArtsSara Barker

Rome Scholar in Landscape ArchitectureJoseph Bedford

Sainsbury Scholars in Painting and SculptureKatie CuddonCelia Hempton

Sargant Fellow Amikam Toren

Wingate Rome ScholarLiz Rideal

Building upon contacts set in place during previousyears, as well as the interest of the new city government

in developing its relationships with the foreign academies,2008–9 was marked by a large number of exhibitions andprojects involving BSR artists and architects, who hadfrequent contacts with residents of the other foreigninstitutions.

On 26 and 27 September 2008, a brief exhibition entitledTempo Reale presented works created by Fine Arts scholarsCath Keay, Amanda Marburg and Liz Rideal, and by otherartists then resident (Christopher Cook, and former FineArts scholars Richard Kirwan and Tony Lloyd).

The first of three BSR scholars’ introductory talks tookplace on 30 October. The following night, Fine Artsscholars were introduced to curator Fabio Campagna, acontact that would bear fruit throughout the year.

The Fine Arts exhibition Figure of 8 — supported byDalla Vedova Legal Practice — opened on 12 December2008. It included works by Joseph Bedford, Penelope Cain,Dragica Carlin, Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, RebeccaMadgin, Ruth Murray, Eddie Peake and Liz Rideal. Theexhibition (and the other two that were to follow in Marchand June) had many visitors from the other foreignacademies and the Rome art community.

Thanks to the support of our lawyer GianmatteoNunziante, on 18 December Penelope Cain, Katie Cuddonand Liz Rideal exhibited new works in different media,collectively entitled Avvolgere Svolgere at the NunzianteMagrone Legal Practice’s Christmas cocktail party.

On 23 December, Fabio Campagna organised Bites, anoutdoor video projection of works by Penelope Cain andLiz Rideal at ESC Atelier Occupato in the San Lorenzodistrict.

In January, Joseph Bedford, Katie Cuddon, CeliaHempton, Eddie Peake and Liz Rideal visited Bologna asguests of Marianna Di Giansante at her Æmilia Hotel, witha view to the third exhibition of BSR Fine Arts scholars inthe hotel’s Spazio Cultura.

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On 30 January Joseph Bedford, Penelope Cain, KatieCuddon, Celia Hempton, Eddie Peake and Liz Ridealexhibited at RialtoSantambrogio in an event entitled 123456— Craack!, curated by Fabio Campagna. The show involveddrawings, video projections and a performance by KatieCuddon, Celia Hempton and Eddie Peake, wearingcostumes created by Eddie.

On 3 February Eddie, Katie and Celia reworked thisperformance as Tracce, walking from the Pantheon to a stageset in the Temple of Hadrian, on the final night of the yearlyAlta Roma fashion show.

The March Fine Arts exhibition, Our Lives are Full ofRemarkable Coincidences, including Sara Barker, Joseph Bedford,Gabriella Bisetto, Luke Caulfield, Katie Cuddon, CeliaHempton, Cath Keay, Eddie Peake and James Robertson,opened on 13 March. The exhibition was the subject of alecture given by Jacopo Benci to a group of ContemporaryEuropean Art History students from Università della Tuscia.

Accademia delle Accademie, involving 28 artists from eightforeign academies, curated by Shara Wasserman, took placefrom 1 to 5 April at the Temple of Hadrian, as part of TheRoad to Contemporary Art international art fair. A newgeneration of British artists was brought to the attention of

a wider public through the work of BSR participants SaraBarker, Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton and Eddie Peake.

Marco Delogu, director of the annual FotoGrafia festival,invited the foreign academies to participate in the 2009edition. David Spero, the inaugural Photoworks Fellow,represented the School. Photoworks generously supportedthe project by securing the shipment of David’sphotographs to Rome. The exhibition David Spero: Churches,opened at the BSR on 15 May. It was the subject of a lecturegiven by Jacopo Benci to a group of students from thePerugia Academy of Fine Arts. On 29 May David Sperogave a talk about his work at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni,as part of the events programme of FotoGrafia 2009, and on31 May he signed copies of his Churches monograph at s.t.fotolibreriagalleria. Also on 31 May, Jacopo Benci gave anillustrated talk at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on theshowreel programme he curated for the festival, EmotionRecollected in Tranquillity , comprising works by ninephotographers/artists (seven of whom were ex–BSRscholars).

Several other exhibitions involving BSR Fine Artsscholars took place in May and June. Grand Tour Bologna. TheBritish School at Rome, II (Joseph Bedford, Katie Cuddon,

Above: Studio 7, Via Antonio Gramsci 61, Rome 2009, by David Spero (Photoworks Fellow)

Right: Decycle: Abstract, 2009, by Amikam Toren (Sargant Fellow)

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Right: Principe di Piemonte, 2009, by Cath Keay (ACE Helen ChadwickFellow)

Below: Child of the Great Transformers, 2008,by Ruth Murray (Derek Hill FoundationScholar)

Left: Circles, 2008, by Dragica JanketicCarlin (Abbey Fellow in Painting)

Right: Untitled Hunting Apparatus, 2009, by Katie Cuddon (Sainsbury Scholar inPainting and Sculpture)

Above: One foot x one foot x one second, 2007, byPierre Gendron (Québec Architecture Resident)

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Celia Hempton, Eddie Peake and Liz Rideal) opened on 12May at Æmilia Hotel in Bologna. Katie Cuddon, CeliaHempton and Eddie Peake participated in the seventhedition of Spazi Aperti, curated by Mirela Pribac at theRomanian Academy. The second edition of AcademyArchitects at the Acquario at the Casa dell’Architettura, curatedby Shara Wasserman, opened on 3 June. This includedJoseph Bedford and Pierre Gendron, the inaugural QuebecArchitecture Resident.

Don’t Look Away, the final Fine Arts exhibition for 2008–9,opened on 12 June, involving new works by Joseph Bedford,Katie Cuddon, Graham Durward, Pierre Gendron, CeliaHempton, Eddie Peake, David Spero and Amikam Toren.

David Spero was invited to take part in the exhibition AQuestion of Time. Roman Campaigns: Historical and ContemporaryPhotography, which opened on 15 June at the AmericanAcademy in Rome. The show combined historicphotographs of Rome with new interpretations of the samesites by six contemporary photographers.

The year was given a fitting conclusion on 27 June withthe performance/exhibition Second Style: an Odyssey Frieze,conceived and directed by Ralegh Radford Rome ScholarMarden Nichols, staged in the BSR gallery — adorned withlarge scale mural replicas of the first-century BC OdysseyFrieze painted by Celia Hempton — and performed byKatie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, Jessica Harris, SarahKeenan-Jones, Duncan Keenan-Jones, and Joseph Bedford.

This was followed by a farewell party in honour of Andrewand Jo Wallace-Hadrill.

A series of monthly screenings of films on modern Romemade between 1945 and 2005 ran throughout the year. Thefilms were selected and introduced by David Forgacs andJacopo Benci, who also discussed each film with theparticipating residents.

Fine Arts site visits included a tour of a selection of theRome galleries opening for the October Roma Art Weekend;a visit to Monte Testaccio, the Protestant Cemetery, theTestaccio quarter, and Luigi Moretti’s Ex-GIL on 21October; and a joint Fine Arts and Humanities trip toVicenza and Parma for the Palladio and Correggioexhibitions (7–9 November). A walk around the 1930s–40smonumental area of EUR, on 9 February 2009, includedspecially arranged tours of the Palazzo dei Congressi andthe Palazzo degli Uffici. A second visit to Luigi Moretti’sEx-GIL, hosted by Architect Luigi Prisco of Regione Lazio,took place on 19 February, and a tour of the 1920–31Garbatella council-housing estates took place on 17 April.

Scholars were provided with information on events at theother foreign academies and at Rome galleries andmuseums; and were given advice and support for individualand group explorations of Rome and further afield. Anexcellent example of a fruitful use of these opportunitieswas Joseph Bedford’s film The Walls of Rome: TowardsDeTermination, shown at the School in the Don’t Look Awayexhibition. The film had been growing through the year,incorporating places, issues and people Joseph had comeacross through discussions, film screenings and site visitsand through contacts secured by members of staff.

Research Assistant Alessandra Giacinti providedconstant, effective support for all of the events, worked onsourcing materials and suppliers for the Fine Arts scholars,and helped them engage with the city.

Jacopo BenciAssistant Director (Fine Arts)

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This has been a year of considerable change and re-assessment. As the new Chair of the Faculty of the Fine

Arts, it is my pleasure to congratulate Andrew Wallace-Hadrill on his new appointment and to thank him for hiscontribution to the role of Fine Arts at the School, for abuilding programme that extended the gallery facilities andfor the development of an ambitious range of opportunitiesfor artists at the School. I must also thank Jenni Lomaxwho, for six years as Chair, has given her time, support andinvaluable advice to both staff and the Faculty. I join withmembers of the Faculty in congratulating her following heraward of the OBE, for ‘services to the visual arts’. I must alsothank members of the Faculty who stepped down this year,Cathy Hawley and Alison Turnbull, and welcome newmembers, Sonia Boyce MBE, William Cobbing, Tania Kovatsand the architect Robert Tavernor.

During the year two new opportunities were introducedto the School’s residency programme and, sadly, one, theWingate Rome Scholarship in the Fine Arts, ceased after avery successful ten-year period. The School is grateful tothe Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation for its support ofthis scholarship, and the opportunity it provided for oneartist each year to be a part of the School community forfive months.

The Photoworks Fellowship is the first residency at theBSR devoted exclusively to photography and lens-basedmedia. It will be available every two years, and is designed togive mid-career artists an opportunity to undertake a three-month period of studio-based research. The residency issupported by Photoworks, an independent visual artsorganisation that provides opportunities for emerging andestablished artists, curators and writers.

The Quebec Architecture Scholarship, funded by theConseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, is a three-monthresidency for professionals in the field of architecture,landscape architecture, urban planning and environmentaldesign. It adds further depth to the innovative architectureprogramme.

After twelve years, the year marked the end in its currentform of the Contemporary Arts Programme at the School,which had presented an imaginative and ambitiousprogramme. The Faculty extends grateful thanks toCristiana Perrella, curator since 1998, who brought to theSchool and to Rome many of the most significant Britishartists of the last decade. One-person shows included thoseby Martin Maloney, Mark Wallinger, Adam Chodzko,Richard Billingham, Yinka Shonibare, Sophy Rickett, MartinCreed, Mike Nelson, Douglas Gordon, Ian Kiaer and ChrisEvans. Cristiana’s programme of recent video art has beenrecognised properly as a major contribution to thedocumentation of contemporary film and has includedSweetie; Female Identity in British Art, Video Vibe, and the VideoZone series. Screenings and lecture series added considerablyto local interest in the School’s programme.

It was with great sadness that we heard of the death inJuly of Gordon Burn, the inaugural Sargant Fellow inCuratorial and Critical Studies, 2007–8.

During the year, Tim Llewellyn, the distinguished arthistorian and BSR Council member, undertook a review ofthe fine arts at the School and reported to Council. Theprimary focus of the review was the artists’ residencies andtheir relationship with the rest of the School. Tim’srecommendations were welcomed by Council and Faculty asboth timely and encouraging of a more coherent andengaging approach to contemporary visual practice. Heproposes to establish long-term strands of investigation,embracing all disciplines, and to reintroduce the means bywhich distinguished practitioners might have a regularpresence in the School. There are many practical andfinancial implications to the proposals, and the Faculty and Ilook forward to working with him, the staff, Council andthe Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters to realisemany aspects of our aspirations for the future.

John GillChair, Faculty of the Fine Arts

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This year saw the continuation of the seriesLondon–Rome: Work in Process. This programme aims to

provide a forum for debate between visiting architects, BSRresidents and Italian professionals and scholars, bydiscussing the experiences and concerns of young architectsin the two capitals and comparing and contrastinginfluences, working methods, conditions and opportunities.The programme is organised in collaboration with theArchitecture Foundation in London and thePARC–Ministero dei Beni Culturali in Rome and INARCH(Istituto Nazionale di Architettura). A further objective of these events is to provide usefulcontacts in Rome and Italy for BSR architects and artistsand to attract funding and new scholarships.In November, the London practice AOC gave a lecture andexhibition as the second event in the series. Even thoughAOC were relatively unknown in Italy, Tom Coward andDaisy Froud attracted a large and predominantly youngaudience. As well as providing a dynamic lecture, AOCtransformed the foyer space with a highly-entertaining showmade up of a series of interactive wall drawings, workingdiagrams and photographs. AOC’s more experimentalapproach to their work is similar to that of some of theRome practices, including the Roman architects Ma0, whomwe featured in the summer of 2008.

Also during November, we were asked by the designgallery, Babuino 900, to host the launch of the bookCucchi/Sottsass. It documents the collaboration between theartist and architect, which led to them working together forthe University of Salerno. The presentation was followed bythe opening of the Sottsass exhibition at Babuino 900 andlinks to our previous cycle of lectures and exhibitions Spacesfor Art, which concentrated on the relationship between artand architecture.

In February 2009, the London-based practice CarmodyGroarke provoked lively debate with a lecture that focusedon both their temporary and permanent pavilions, theircollaborations with artists, and their 7 July Memorial that

opened in Hyde Park, London in summer 2009. Theirexhibition of models and wall drawings, Time Scale ,concentrated on the wide range and scale of work by thisthree-year-old practice.

Andrea Stipa Architettura, the second of the Rome practicesfeatured in the current series, ended the cycle for the year byproducing an unusual installation to display some of its mostrecent projects, many of them still to be built. Doubtless, thedifficult working conditions suffered by Italian architectswill be one of the themes discussed at forthcoming events.

Looking forward, Witherford Watson Mann and IAN+will show at the BSR in autumn 2009. London-Rome: Work inProcess will then conclude with a series of three round tablediscussions between the London and Rome architects at theRoyal College of Art in February 2010 organised incollaboration with the Architecture Foundation in London.

None of these events could take place without the supportof our sponsors: the PARC, the John S. Cohen Foundation,the Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust, the British Council, theBryan Guinness Charitable Trust and the AustralianEmbassy. Finally, we would also like to thank Fulvio Astolfi,Jacopo Benci, Renato Parente, Giuseppe Pellegrino, ChrisSiwicki and Rosanna Tripaldi for all their help.

Marina EngelCurator, Architecture Programme

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A nticipation and expectation — these have been thekey words for the publications programme in 2008–9.

At the meeting of the Faculty of Archaeology, History andLetters in November, the Chair of Publications was able toreport that, after a puzzling hiatus, we expected some sevenvolumes, all of them closely linked to School projects, to besubmitted within the following twelve months forconsideration for publication by the School. Four of thesehave been submitted, have been assessed by externalreaders, and have been accepted for publication. Thus2009–10 will be an exceptionally busy year, preparing thevolumes and then publishing them. The range of titleshopefully will prove attractive to many: Roma Britannica. ArtPatronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-century Rome,edited by David R. Marshall, Susan Russell and KarinWolfe; San Vincenzo Maggiore and its Workshops, by RichardHodges, Sarah Leppard and John Mitchell; ‘Veii. TheHistorical Topography of the Ancient City’. A Restudy of JohnWard-Perkins’s Survey, edited by Helen Patterson, RobertaCascino and Helga Di Giuseppe; and Recent ArchaeologicalResearch at Portus and in its Hinterland, edited by Simon Keayand Lidia Paroli.

Those volumes that have been published continue toreceive excellent reviews. Of Archives & Excavations, editedby the late Ilaria Bignamini, ‘This is an illuminating volumeof collected papers … a fascinating and well-producedvolume, which reveals the wealth of tapped and untappedarchive material for Rome … [Contributions] all areextremely accessible and suitably illustrated’, Journal ofMedieval Archaeology 52 (2008); of Between Text and Territory,edited by Kim Bowes, Karen Francis and Richard Hodges,‘un’importante pubblicazione … la sintesi … sulla quasiventennale attività della missione britannica nel territoriocircostante la fondazione monastica molisana … Il bel titolodel volume ricorda la fortuna di S. Vincenzo, fondazionericca tanto di fonti scritte quanto di evidenze materiali, ed èanche ripreso [nel] capitolo conclusivo che, non a caso, sichiude ricordando l’opzione metodologica di tutto il lavoro,

cioè l’integrazione tra fonti scritte e reperti archeologici’,Quellen und Forschungen 88 (2008).

Papers of the British School at Rome 76 (2008) was publishedin December. This was the first volume with a new design.It contains a range of papers, including contributions on apossible painting of Cleopatra in Pompeii (by Susan Walker,Balsdon Fellow 2006–7), on the walls of Rome between thePorta Latina and the Appia (by Lucos Cozza, HonoraryFellow), on the Jerusalem Temple treasure and the churchof Santi Cosma e Damiano in Rome (by John Osborne,Rome Scholar 1978–9, Honorary Fellow), on a portrait ofCardinal Pompeo Colonna (by Piers Baker Bates, RomeScholar 2002–3), on the use of events in the Middle Ages(especially the barbarian migrations) in Risorgimentoliterature and music (by Ian Wood, Balsdon Fellow 2005–6),and on recent migration to Italy, and in particular theverbalisations of power relations between hosts andmigrants, and the verbal and visual representations ofmigrants (by David Forgacs, Rome Scholar 1977–8,currently BSR Research Professor in Modern Studies).

We can also report that an agreement has been signedwith JSTOR, so that back issues of the Papers will beincluded in their digital archive. This should be ofenormous value to the School and the academic communitymore generally.

Academic validation for the formal academicpublications of the School rests with the Faculty ofArchaeology, History and Letters. We are grateful to allmembers of the Faculty for their contribution, and inparticular to the Chair of Publications, Bryan Ward-Perkins,and the Editor of the Papers, Josephine Crawley Quinn, whoare extremely generous with their time and knowledge.

Gill ClarkPublications Manager

A 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.

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There has been an extraordinary increase in activities andevents relating to the Library and Archive over the past

few years, which was triggered in 2002 by a generous grantfrom The Getty Foundation. This funded the cataloguing ofthree nineteenth-century collections of photographs and, topublicise the project, an exhibition of a selection from oneof these collections was held in the BSR in 2005: thephotographs of Rome taken by Father Peter Paul Mackeyduring the 1890s.

This exhibition travelled to London in June 2009 and washosted by Sir John Soane’s Museum — a prestigious venueindeed. The new partnership that has been establishedbetween the two institutions this year is very exciting and welook forward to hosting an event for the Museum in Rome.But this would not have come about without the support ofour friends, John and Virginia Murray, to whom we are verygrateful. Thanks to the generous contributions from manyBSR friends and sponsors, in particular Peter and AnneWiseman, Gifford Combs and the Paul Mellon Centre forStudies in British Art, the exhibition travelled to Londonand was accompanied by a catalogue written by RobertCoates-Stephens, BSR Cary Fellow. This volume presents afascinating portrait of a little-known Rome at the end of thenineteenth century. On the one hand, it appears stillimmersed in the countryside, more rural than urban, withvineyards and market gardens. On the other hand, it is a cityin ferment, with demolition and building work taking place;a city unexpectedly industrial, with smoking chimneys onthe skyline and factories in the Circus Maximus.

A second grant from The Getty Foundation in 2007, tofund the cataloguing of part of the J.B. Ward-Perkinscollection of photographs relating to Italian monumentsdamaged during the Second World War, the archaeology ofLibya and the South Etruria Survey, has also acted as acatalyst, linking the BSR to other international initiatives.In January, Alessandra Ciangherotti, one of the GettyProject cataloguers, gave a paper on the Ward-Perkinscollection at a seminar on damage to Italian monuments

during the Second World War organised by the UguccioneRanieri Sorbello Foundation, Perugia. The outcome of thisseminar is an application to the EU for funding for a jointresearch project. In February the Librarian was invited togive a paper on the project at the colloquium organised bythe Society for Libyan Studies and the Inscriptions ofRoman Cyrenaica project (of which we are a partner):Roman Libya: Epigraphy, Geography and Archaeology held atKing’s College, London.

We have also been invited to participate in a projectentitled Danni bellici e restauro. Opere di difesa, guasti, pratiched’intervento edilizio e urbano nel secondo dopoguerra, funded by

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Immagini e memoriaRome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey 1890-1901

Cover of the exhibition catalogue, Immagini e Memoria: Rome in thePhotographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey 1890–1901

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the Italian Ministry for Higher Education and Research andinvolving five Italian universities.

This project also includes the creation of a newwebsite: BSR Library and Archive Digital Collections. Thedigitised images from the catalogued photographs will beaccessible on this site and it is hoped that, in the future,other material — including maps, prints and engravingsand manuscripts from the Library collection anddocuments from the Archive — will also be available.Two pilot projects have already been completed: aselection of maps of Rome digitised by the BibliothecaHertziana as part of the Catalogo Illustrato delle Piante diRoma Online project and 100 miscellaneous prints fromthe Thomas Ashby collection funded by the AustralianResearch Council. The material has been catalogued byBeatrice Gelosia, Deputy Librarian.

The Getty Foundation Grants, therefore, have beenfundamental for the development of the BSR Library andArchive over the past seven years, not only funding thecataloguing of over 25,000 images from the PhotographicArchive and a new dedicated website, but also stimulatingour participation in related international projects, facilitatingour fundraising activity, and creating opportunities foroutreach: exhibitions, publications, seminars and courses inthe history of photographic techniques organised by theBSR Archivist, Alessandra Giovenco. We are profoundlygrateful.

The Librarian was honoured to receive an invitation tospend a week at the Getty Research Institute in October,meeting curators and staff and discovering the wealth ofremarkable resources, which was a very useful andstimulating experience. This followed the symposium SirWilliam Gell and the Topographical Imagination, held at the GettyVilla, at which both the Director and the Librarian gavepapers on the manuscripts held in the BSR Library.

Other news. The number of outside readers using theLibrary has continued to rise and the graph clearly showsthe dramatic increase. It is, once again, only thanks to David

Packard’s generous support, through the PackardHumanities Institute, that we can continue to provide anefficient service and welcome all scholars to the Library.

The lack of space is also a recurrent problem and someareas of the Library are already full. However, we haveexceptionally agreed to accept a bequest from the estateof Piero Lugli, son of Giuseppe Lugli (the archaeologistand friend of Thomas Ashby), who expressed the desirethat part of his Archive, mainly relating to his father,should come to the BSR. This will be housed in the BSRArchive office.

We were saddened by the news that Michael Mallett,Rome Scholar in 1957 and Assistant Director/Librarianfrom 1962 to 1967 passed away in September 2008. TheBSR Library has been named as a beneficiary and we haveselected a number of books from his library. It is withpleasure that we have incorporated these into the Library’scollections and our sincere condolences and thanks go toLuke and Alex Mallett.

Valerie Scott Librarian

The numbers of outside readers using the BSR Library

Jacopo Benci2008 Jacopo Benci – Itinerari silenziosi, Nuovo Cinema Aquila,

Rome.2009 Alla corte del Cattivo Governo, Lavatoio Contumaciale,

Rome. 2009 Fra le quattro par eti domestiche: Quattro bis ,

Fralequattropareti, Rome.2009 ‘(Re)opening up worlds’, in M. Pribac (ed.), Spazi

Aperti 7: 9–10. Rome, The Romanian Academy.

Robert Coates-Stephens2008 ‘Notes from Rome’, in Papers of the British School at

Rome 76: 299–307. 2009 Immagini e Memoria. Rome in the Photographs of Father

Peter Paul Mackey 1890–1901 , catalogue of theexhibition held at Sir John Soane’s Museum, London,from 19 June to 12 September 2009. London, BritishSchool at Rome.

Marina Engel2008 La Stanza Rossa (Franco Purini), Fondazione Volume,

Rome.

David Forgacs2008 ‘The words of the migrant: tales of contemporary

Italy’, in Papers of the British School at Rome 76: 277–97.2008 ‘Neorealismo, identità nazionale, modernità’, in L.

Venzi (ed.), Incontro al neorealismo: 211–21. Rome,Edizioni Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo.

2008 Full-length audio commentary on ll deserto rosso (M.Antonioni, 1964), DVD and Blu-ray. London, BritishFilm Institute.

2009 ‘La photographie et la dénarrativisation de la pratiquecinématographique en Italie (1935–1955)’, in L.Guido and O. Lugon (eds), Fixe/Animé: Croisements de

la photographie et du cinéma au XXe siècle: 129–46.Geneva, Droz.

2009 ‘Fotografia e antinarratività: alla ricerca delle originidel neorealismo cinematografico in Italia’, in Studi ericerche 4/2: 41–58.

Sue Russell2009 ‘Girolamo Mercuriale’s De Arte Gymnastica and papal

health at the Villa Pamphilj, Rome’, in A. Arcangeliand V. Nutton (eds), Girolamo Mercuriale. Medicina ecultura nell’Europa del Cinquecento. Atti del convegno‘Girolamo Mercuriale e lo spazio scientifico e culturale delCinquecento’ (Forlì, 8–11 novembre 2006): 163–77. N. 10,Bibliothèque d’Histoire des Sciences. Florence, Leo S.Olschki.

Simon Keay and Camerone Staff2008 F. Coarelli, S. Kay and H. Patterson, ‘Investigations at

Falacrinae, the birth place of Vespasian’, in Papers ofthe British School at Rome 76: 47–73.

2008 R. Ferraby, S. Hay, S. Keay and M. Millett,‘Archaeological survey at Fregellae 2004–5’, in C.Corsi and E. Polito (eds), Dalle sorgenti alla foce. Ilbacino del Liri-Garigliano nell’antichità: culture, contatti,scambi. Atti del convegno, Frosinone–Formia 10–12novembre 2005: 125–31. Rome, Quasar.

2008 S. Hay, S. Keay, M. Millett and T. Sly, ‘Urban field-survey at Ocriculum (Otricoli, Umbria)’, in F. Coarelliand H. Patterson (eds), Mercator Placidissimus. TheTiber Valley in Antiquity. New Research in the Upper andMiddle River Valley: 797–809. Rome, Quasar.

2008 S. Keay, G. Earl, S. Hay, S. Kay, J. Ogden and K.Strutt, ‘The potential of archaeological geophysics:the work of the British School at Rome’, in Geofisicaper l’archeologia. Possibilità e limiti. Atti del convegno, Roma,Palazzo Massimo: 25–44. Rome, CISTEC.

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2008 S. Kay and R. Witcher, ‘The Tiber Valley Project. Thedatabase and geographical information system’, in F.Coarelli and H. Patterson (eds), MercatorPlacidissimus. The Tiber Valley in antiquity. New Researchin the Upper and Middle River Valley: 417–29. Rome,Quasar.

2008 S. Hay, S. Kay and K. Strutt, ‘Geophysics projects’, inPapers of the British School at Rome 76: 328–30.

2008 F. Coarelli and H. Patterson, Mercator Placidissimus.The Tiber Valley in Antiquity. New Research in the Upperand Middle River Valley. Rome, Quasar.

2008 S. Keay and K. Strutt, ‘The role of integratedgeophysical survey methods in the assessment ofarchaeological landscapes: the case of Portus’, in R.Lasaponara and N. Masini (eds), Advances on RemoteSensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management.Proceedings of the 1st International EARSeL WorkshopCNR, Rome, 30 September – 4 October: 121–4. Rome.

2008 H. Patterson, ‘The middle Tiber valley in the lateantique and early medieval periods: someobservations’, in F. Coarelli and H. Patterson (eds),Mercator Placidissimus. The Tiber Valley in Antiquity.New Research in the Upper and Middle River Valley:499–532. Rome, Quasar.

2008 R. Cascino and M.T. Di Sarcina, ‘L’internal slipwarenella media valle del Tevere’, in F. Coarelli and H.Patterson (eds), Mercator Placidissimus. The TiberValley in Antiquity. New Research in the Upper and MiddleRiver Valley: 559–85. Rome, Quasar.

2009 S. Keay, ‘Le provincie ispaniche’, in F. Coarelli (ed.),Divus Vespasianus. Exhibition catalogue. Milan, Electa.

2009 S. Keay, G. Earl, S. Hay, S. Kay, J. Ogden and K.Strutt, ‘The role of integrated geophysical surveymethods in the assessment of archaeologicallandscapes: the case of Portus’, in ArchaeologicalProspection 16: 1–13.

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill2008 Rome’s Cultural Revolution, Cambridge, Cambridge

University Press.2009 ‘La corte Flavia’ in F. Coarelli (ed.), Divus Vespasianus.

Il bimillenario dei Flavi: 302–7. Milan, Electa.2009 ‘Case dipinte. Il sistema decorativo della casa romana

come aspetto sociale’ in S. Ensoli, E. La Rocca and S.Tortorella (eds), Roma. La pittura di un impero, catalogodella mostra, Roma, Scuderie del Quirinale, 24settembre2009–17 gennaio 2010. Milan, Skira.

2009 ‘Courts and Classicists’ in The Court Historian, 14.1:69–74.

Herculaneum Conservation Project2009 S. Court and C. Biggi, ‘Young people in conservation:

international and local participation in safeguardingthe cultural heritage of Ercolano’, in Proceedings of theFirst International Meeting of Youth in Conservation ofCultural Heritage, Rome, 24–25 November 2008: 1–8.Rome, IA-CS.

2009 F. Piqué, G. Verri, C. Miliani, L. Cartechini and G.Torraca, ‘Indagini non-invasive sulle pitture deltablino della Casa del Bicentenario ad Ercolano’, inMateriali e Strutture 9–10 (2007).

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Academic Project Staff

Portus Project / Archaeological SurveyResearch Assistants Roberta Cascino, MA

Elizabeth De Gaetano, MSc*Giles Richardson, MA*Cinzia Filippone, MAStephen Kay, MScLeonie Pett, MA*Gregory Tucker, MA°Jessica Ogden, MSc°

Archaeological Illustrator Sally Cann, BA

Herculaneum Conservation ProjectProject Manager Jane Thompson, MA DipArchResearch and Outreach Co-ordinator Sarah Court, MA

International Centre for the Study of HerculaneumCentre Manager Christian Biggi, MSt

Website Research Assistant Raphael Helman, BArch

Director’s ProjectsResearch Assistant Christopher Siwicki, MA

Assistant Director’s Projects (Humanities)Research Assistant Lucy Davis MA PhD

Architecture ProgrammeCurator Marina Engel, MA

Contemporary Arts ProgrammeAssistant Alessandra Troncone, BA*

Fine Arts ProgrammeResearch Assistant Alessandra Giacinti, BFA

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Core Staff

Director Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, (until 1 October 2009) OBE MA DPhil FSA

(from 1 October 2009) Professor Christopher Smith, MA, DPhil FSAS FRHistS FSA

Research Professor in Archaeology Professor Simon Keay, BA PhD FSA

Research Professor in Modern Studies Professor David Forgacs, BA PhD*

Cary Fellow Robert Coates-Stephens, BA PhDMolly Cotton Fellow Helen Patterson, BA PhD

Assistant Director Susan Russell, MA PhD

Assistant Director (Fine Arts) Jacopo Benci #

Curator, Contemporary Arts Programme Cristiana Perrella, MA #*

Librarian Valerie Scott, BADeputy Librarian Beatrice GelosiaLibrary Assistants Francesca De Riso, BA #

Francesca Deli Archivist Alessandra Giovenco, MA #

Registrar & Publications Manager Gill Clark, BA PhD

Director’s Assistant Eleanor Murkett, MASchool Secretary Maria Pia MalvezziHostel Supervisor Geraldine WellingtonHon. Secretary, Subscribers Jo Wallace-Hadrill, MA #*

Bursar Alvise Di Giulio, BADomestic Bursar Renato ParenteAccounts Clerk Isabella Gelosia #Maintenance Fulvio AstolfiCleaners Donatella Astolfi

Alba CorattiMarisa Scarsella

Cooks Giuseppe ParenteDharma Wijesiriwardana

Technical Assistant & Waiter Giuseppe PellegrinoWaiters/Porters Antonio Palmieri

Pathirannehalage Sompala #°

Structure, Governance andManagementThe British School at Rome was founded in1901 and incorporated by Royal Charter in1912 (Supplemental Charter, 1995). It is aregistered charity, no. 314176. The governingbody of the School comprises the President,HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon. LadyOgilvy, KG, GCVO, and the Council. TheDirector acts as the School’s Chief Executive,has the right of attendance at all meetings ofCouncil and its Subcommittees, and providesthe secretariat from among the School staff.

A list of all members of Council(Trustees) who have acted during the 2008–9financial year appears below, together withdetails of the School’s financial advisers, andmembers of all Subcommittees; a full list ofmembers of staff is given on page 39.

Under the terms of the Royal Charter, twoCouncil members are to be appointed by thePresident of the British Academy and the restare appointed by the Council. No fewer thanseven members must be selected from thefields of specialisation and work enshrined inthe School’s objectives. Care is taken tosecure a balance between specialists in theFine Arts and the Humanities and generalistswith legal, financial and fundraising skills.Members of Council serve for a term of fiveyears, renewable for a maximum of a furtherfive years. 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 both thereand in London as part of an inductionprocess. On appointment new trustees sign amodel trustee declaration of eligibility and

will meet with the Chairman and Director.The welcome pack includes CharityCommission guidance, BSR policies,strategies, bye-laws and management plan,and a copy of the School’s Charter. Alltrustees give of their time freely and notrustee remuneration was paid in the year.Details of trustee expenses are disclosed innote 11 to the accounts. Council normallymeets three times a year.

Council is advised on all matters offinance and personnel by the Finance andPersonnel Subcommittee, which includes theChair 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 are appointedfor a five-year term by Council on therecommendation of the Faculties; they arechosen to represent the full range of specialistinterests that fall within the charteredobjectives of the School. Fellowships,scholarships and awards are advertised once ayear, and the faculties meet once annually toconsider applications, and to monitor reportsby recipients of awards. The awards processis administered from the London office bythe Registrar. Details of how to apply forawards together with relevant forms areavailable on the School’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, and mustbe a member of Council.

Council is advised on development andfundraising by the Chair of Development; theChair is appointed by Council, and must be amember 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 mitigate thoserisks. It reviews its risk assessment on anannual basis.

Objectives, Activities and Plans forthe FutureThe objectives of the School are set out inthe Supplemental Royal Charter (1995) asfollows:

(a) To promote the study in Italy ofarchaeology, history and letters, archi-tecture, 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 Brit ish 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.

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(f) To award scholarships, Exhibitions,Bursaries, Research Grants and other formsof assistance to those of Brit ish orCommonwealth birth, education orresidence, engaged in the study of the arts,archaeology, history or letters.

The School’s mission statement andsummary statement of activities in pursuit ofits objectives is given on the opening page ofthis Annual Report. The objectives for theyear, achievements and plans for the futureare set out in detail above, in the Director’sReport and in the reports on individualactivities that follow: these constitute anintegral part of the formal Trustees’ Report.The Trustees confirm that they have referredto the guidance contained in the CharityCommission’s general guidance on publicbenefit when reviewing the School’s aims andobjectives and in planning future activities.

Public BenefitThe School’s charitable purposes, for thepublic benefit, concentrate on theadvancement of education and theadvancement of the arts, culture, heritage orscience. These charitable purposes are linkedto the objectives and activities describedabove and the mission statement andsummary statement which can be found onpage 1 of this Annual Report. Beneficiariesinclude, but are not limited to, students,scholars and visual artists and architects fromBritain and the Commonwealth.

CO U N C I LProfessor G.W.W. Barker°Professor R. Burdett*Mr R. CooperProfessor S. FarthingMr J. Gill°Mr M.N. Higgin (Hon. Treasurer)Mr T.D. Llewellyn (Vice-Chair)Ms J. Lomax*Professor M.J. Millett*Mr A.R. NairneDr J.H. PellewSir Ivor Roberts (Chair)Dr F. SalmonMr B. Ward-PerkinsDr S. WalkerProfessor M. WarnerProfessor C. Wickham*

The Chief Executive of the British Academyis invited to observe Council meetings.

DirectorProfessor A. Wallace-Hadrill (until 1 October 2009)Professor C. J. Smith (from 1 October 2009)

Finance & Personnel Subcommittee Mr R. Cooper°Mr M.N. HigginMr J. Gill°Mr T.D. Llewellyn°Ms J. Lomax*Dr J.H. PellewSir Ivor Roberts (Chair)Dr F. SalmonMr B. Ward-Perkins

Charity Number: 314176

AuditorsHLB Vantis Audit plc82 St John StreetLondon EC1M 4JN

AccountantsVantis Group Limited82 St John StreetLondon EC1M 4JN

Italian Financial AdviserFragano & PartnersVia A. Gallonio 800161 Rome

Investment Managers and AdvisersCazenove Capital Management Limited12 MoorgateLondon EC2R 6DA

BankersLloyds TSB Bank Plc7 Pall MallLondon SW1Y 5HU

National Westminster Bank Plc186 Brompton RoadLondon SW3 1XJ

Credito EmilianoVia del Tritone 97–800187 Rome

San Paolo–IMIAgenzia 36, Via Civinini 5000144 Rome

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FINANCIAL REVIEW

The financial statements should be read inconjunction with the reports on pages 3 to 36.The School’s normal activity, disclosed under‘unrestricted funds’ in the statement of financialactivities, ended the financial year with a deficitof £97,000 (2008 — surplus of £ 30,000).

The School has been severely affected by thefall in the value of sterling and this in large parthas led to the shortfall of incoming resources inthe period. The Director in his report commentson the steps which have already been taken toreduce expenditure and the further steps in handto review all aspects of the School’s operationsand activities.

Restricted income includes the major grantsfrom the Packard Humanities Institute,principally to fund conservation work atHerculaneum. The movements in restricted fundsare disclosed in note 18.

Council may invest in any securities approvedby law for the investment of trust or charitablemonies, or such other securities as the Councilmay from time to time approve. Council hasappointed investment advisers to manage theSchool’s investment portfolio, with the objectiveof maintenance of income and growth. The2008–9 financial year witnessed unprecedentedturmoil in the financial markets. This hasresulted in a significant reduction in the marketvalue of the School’s investments during theperiod and unrealised losses of £436,000 beingrecorded at 31 March 2009. There has beensome recovery in market values post theSchool’s financial year end but considerableuncertainty remains regarding the outlook for the

global economy and this appears likely to resultin continuing volatility in the financial markets.

Unrestricted reserves decreased at year endby £488,000 to £1,923,000, mainly as a result ofthe valuation losses on investments. The level ofunrestricted reserves is considered by Council tobe adequate to meet the immediate needs of theSchool. The balance on restricted funds may onlybe used for the purposes described in note 18and is not available for the general purposes ofthe School.

The School’s reserves comprise general funds,designated funds, and restricted funds. Council’spolicy is that: - designated funds and restricted funds should

be retained for the specific purposes forwhich they were set up

- the level of general funds, after eliminatingall unrealised revaluation surpluses, shouldnot fall below three, nor exceed twelvemonths’ core running costs of the School.

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’RESPONSIBILITIES

The Trustees are responsible for preparing theAnnual Report and financial statements inaccordance with applicable law and UnitedKingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.

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 and applythem 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 the goingconcern basis unless it is inappropriate topresume that the School will continue inoperation.

The Trustees are responsible for: - keeping proper accounting records that

disclose with reasonable accuracy at any timethe financial position of the School and whichenable them to ascertain the financial positionof the School and to ensure that the financialstatements comply with 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 are

aware, 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 aware ofthat information.

By order of the Council (Trustees) 22 June 2009Signed on its behalf byM.N. Higgin — Honorary Treasurer

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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORTTO THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISHSCHOOL AT ROME

We have audited the financial statements ofthe British School at Rome for the year ended31 March 2009 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 AND

AUDITORS

As 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 under thatAct. Our responsibility is to audit the financialstatements in accordance with relevant legal

and regulatory requirements and InternationalStandards on Auditing (UK and 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 information given inthe Trustees’ Annual Report is not consistentwith those financial statements, if the charityhas not kept sufficient accounting records, if thecharity’s financial statements are not inagreement with these accounting records, or ifwe have not received all the information andexplanations we require for our audit.

We read other information contained in theAnnual Report and consider whether it isconsistent with the audited f inancialstatements. 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 OPINION

We 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 f inancialstatements are free from material mis-statement, whether caused by fraud or otherirregularity or error. In forming our opinion wealso evaluated the overall adequacy of thepresentation of information in the financialstatements.

OPINION

In our opinion : - the financial statements give a true and fair

view, in accordance with United KingdomGenerally Accepted Accounting Practice, ofthe state of the School's affairs as at 31March 2009 and of its incoming resourcesand application of resources, for the yearthen ended; and

- the financial statements have been properlyprepared in accordance with the CharitiesAct 1993.

HLB Vantis Audit plcChartered Accountants 82 St John StreetRegistered Auditor London EC1M 4JN

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Income and Expenditure Notes Total Funds Total FundsUnrestricted Restricted Year Ended Year Ended

Funds Funds 31 March 2009 31 March 2008£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000

INCOMING RESOURCES:Incoming resources from generated funds

Voluntary incomeGrant from the British Academy 1,065 - 1,065 1,038Other grants, donations and legacies 2 386 2,266 2,652 3,471Subscriptions 20 - 20 9Activities for generating fundsAppeal income 3 - 9 9 14Other income 40 - 40 44Investment income 4 64 58 122 92

Incoming resources from charitable activitiesPublications 22 - 22 27Residential income 5 388 - 388 328Other income 56 - 56 185

Other incoming resources Exchange gains/ (losses) (22) 345 323 223

TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES 2,019 2,678 4,697 5,431

RESOURCES EXPENDED:Costs of generating funds

Costs of generating voluntary income 6 - - - 2Charitable activities 7–9 2,061 1,834 3,895 3,539Governance costs 10 55 - 55 51TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED 2,116 1,834 3,950 3,592

Net (outgoing)/ incoming resources before other recognised (97) 844 747 1,839gains and losses

OTHER RECOGNISED GAINS AND LOSSESRealised (losses)/ gains on investments 13 - - - 24Unrealised (losses)/ gains on investments 13 (391) (45) (436) (149)

Net movement in funds (488) 799 311 1,714Opening funds 2,411 2,416 4,827 3,113Total funds carried forward 1,923 3,215 5,138 4,827

The 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.

STAT E M E N T O F FI N A N C I A L AC T I V I T I E Sfor the year ended 31 March 2009

2009 2008

Notes £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000Fixed AssetsTangible assets 12 57 75Heritage assets 12 500 500Investments — unrestricted 1,534 1,908Investments — restricted 140 240Total investments 13 1,674 2,148Total Fixed Assets 2,231 2,723

Current AssetsDebtors 14 77 67Cash at bank and in hand — unrestricted 327 308Cash at bank and in hand — restricted 3,663 2,323Total cash at bank and in hand 3,990 2,631

4,067 2,698

Creditors — unrestricted (275) (215)Creditors — restricted (588) (147)Creditors: total amounts falling due within one year 15 (863) (362)

Net Current Assets 3,204 2,336Total Assets less Current Liabilities 5,435 5,059Less:Provisions for liabilities and charges 16 (297) (232)

Net Assets 5,138 4,827

Represented by:FundsUnrestricted 17 1,923 2,411Restricted 18 3,215 2,416Total Charity Funds 5,138 4,827

Approved by the Council on 22 June 2009 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.

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis 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 research and academic studies, residential researchprogrammes, library and publications disclosed within charitable activitiesincludes departmental salaries. A proportion of salary costs is allocated togovernance costs based on the 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) Pensions The 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 Assets Fixed 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:

Computers 25% straight lineMotor vehicles 25% straight lineOffice equipment 20% straight lineFurniture and fittings 20% straight line

The 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) Investments Investments 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 Currency Foreign 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 Statement The School is exempted by FRS 1 (revised) from preparing a cash flowstatement. i) Funds Details of the funds of the School, how they have arisen and their use aregiven in notes 17 and 18.

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2. OTHER GRANTS, DONATIONS AND LEGACIES

Unrestricted Restricted Total TotalFunds Funds 2009 2008 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000

Other grants 384 2,266 2,650 3,435Donations and legacies 2 - 2 36

386 2,266 2,652 3,471

3. APPEAL INCOME

Appeal income primarily relates to funds raised to hold an exhibition of theSchool’s archive photographs in London.

4. INVESTMENT INCOME

Total Total2009 2008£’000 £’000

Dividends — UK equities 66 49Interest — UK fixed interest securities 7 15Interest on cash deposits 49 28

122 92

5. RESIDENTIAL INCOME

Total Total2009 2008£’000 £’000

Residential income includes the intangible value of accommodation provided to recipients of grants and scholarships of: 157 140

6. COSTS OF GENERATING FUNDS

Costs of generating funds comprise sundry expenses incurred in raising funds.

7. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Expenditure on charitable activities is made up as follows:Direct Support Total Total

Expenses Costs 2009 2008 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000

Research and academic salaries 469 192 661 754Residential research programmes 665 256 921 708Research projects 78 25 103 141Library 353 139 492 396Publications 8 3 11 15Herculaneum Conservation Project 1,657 - 1,657 1,407Fasti on line project 50 - 50 118

3,280 615 3,895 3,539

Included within charitable expenditure is the following restricted expenditure:Total Total2009 2008 £’000 £’000

Herculaneum Conservation Project 1,657 1,407Fasti on line project 50 118Scholarships (within residential research programmes) 15 6Getty Library project (within Library costs) 57 17Library appeal fund (within Library costs) 5 11PHI Library project (within Library costs) 27 8Murray project (within Library costs) 8 10British Academy Grant — collaborative project

(within residential research programmes) 15 5

1,834 1,582

8. GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Charitable activities include the cost of grants and scholarships awarded. Grantsand scholarships comprise £368,000 (2008 — £329,000) awarded to 55 (2008 —57) individuals. There were no grants payable to Institutions (2008 — none).

Total Total2009 2008

No. £’000 No. £’000 Grants paid:Research 15 78 17 74Scholarships 40 133 40 115Intangible value of accommodation 157 140

55 368 57 329

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9. SUPPORT COSTS

Support costs, which are allocated to charitable activities, are as follows:Total Total2009 2008£’000 £’000

Support staff salaries 249 232Building maintenance and utilities costs 177 96IT and equipment maintenance 50 56Depreciation 45 48Travel expenses 22 11Consultants’ fees 23 42Other 49 37

615 522

All support costs relate to unrestricted funds.

10. GOVERNANCE COSTS

2009 2008£’000 £’000

Salaries and pensions 16 15Auditors’ remuneration 12 11Accountancy fees 3 3Annual Report 8 7Council and committee meetings 16 15

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All governance expenditure relates to unrestricted funds.

11. TRUSTEES AND EMPLOYEES

2009 2008£’000 £’000

Aggregate staff costs comprise:Wages and salaries 650 584Taxes, social security and related costs 296 279Pensions 16 14Staff termination pay (note 16) 37 38

999 915

The School participates in the Universities Superannuation Scheme. The latest actuarialvaluation of the scheme was at 31 March 2008. At the valuation date, the assets of thescheme were 71% of the accrued liabilities based on projected pensionable salaries andthe value of the past service deficit was £11,776 million. This is based on a fundingtarget of £40,619 million and the actuarial value of assets of £28,843 million. Theinstitution contribution rate will be increased from 14% to 16% of salaries from 1October 2009.

Surpluses or deficits which arise at future valuations may impact on the School’s futurecontribution commitment. The total UK pension cost for the School was £15,881 (2008 —£14,016). The contribution to the provision of staff termination pay for the year was £37,201(2008 — £38,124). One employee earned more than £60,000 per annum (2008 — none).

The average number of employees 2009 2008analysed by function was as follows: No NoAcademic programmes 7 7Residential research programmes 7 8Publications 1 2Library 5 5Support 5 5Management and administration of the charity 1 1

The Trustees of the School received no remuneration in the year under review(2008 — £nil). An aggregate of £3,149 (2008 — £3,338) was reimbursed tonine (2008 — eight) Trustees in respect of travel charges.

12. FIXED ASSETS

Library Computer Office FurnitureBooks Equipment Equipment & Fittings Vehicles Total£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000

Cost or ValuationBrought forward 500 326 203 125 61 1,215Additions - 10 16 - - 26

Carried forward 500 336 219 125 61 1,241

DepreciationBrought forward - 302 183 97 58 640Charge for year - 14 17 11 2 44

Carried forward - 316 200 108 60 684

Net Book ValueAt 31 March 2009 500 20 19 17 1 557

At 31 March 2008 500 24 20 28 3 575

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Fixed assets held are all for direct charitable use.Under an agreement dated 25 April 1912 between the Comune di Roma and the

British Ambassador at that time, the British School at Rome was granted, for an annualrental of one Italian lira, the use in perpetuity of the land on which the School is built,provided that the land is used exclusively for study and research in the humanities,archaeology and fine arts. Should the land not be used for such purposes, it has to besurrendered to the Comune without any compensation for its cost or value. On this basis,no value is ascribed to the School building in the accounts or to any additions orimprovements to the building. Such expenditure is written off to the Statement ofFinancial Activities in the 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. INVESTMENTS2009 2008£’000 £’000

UK quoted investments 1,481 1,917Cash on deposit 193 231

1,674 2,148

Historical cost at 31 March:Quoted investments 1,725 1,725

The following investments individually comprise the investments held:

2009 2008 £’000 £’000

Cazenove Unit Trust Management: Growth Trust for Charities 419 610Income Trust for Charities 286 283Absolute Return Trust for Charities 312 366Equity Income Trust for Charities 372 535European Fund 23 28Property Trust 69 95

The movement on quoted investments comprises:2009 2008£’000 £’000

Market value at 1 April 1,917 2,102Additions at cost - 18Disposal proceeds - (78)

1,917 2,042Realised gains on disposals - 24Unrealised (losses)/gains (436) (149)Market value at 31 March 1,481 1,917

14. DEBTORS2009 2008£’000 £’000

Other debtors and prepayments 77 67

15. CREDITORS: amounts falling due within one year

2009 2008£’000 £’000

Other creditors and accruals 863 362 863 362

16. PROVISIONS2009 2008£’000 £’000

Provision for staff termination pay 297 232

This liability represents deferred pay due to employees at 31 March 2009,payable when they leave the School. The amount payable is calculated inaccordance with existing Italian legal requirements and the Italian nationallabour contract.The movements in the provision for the year are as follows:

2009 2008£’000 £’000

Balance at 1 April 232 167Increase in provision for the year 37 38Exchange loss 28 27Balance at 31 March 297 232

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17. UNRESTRICTED FUNDS

General Capital Designated Total TotalFunds Fund Funds 2009 2008£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000

At 1 April 860 278 1,273 2,411 2,493Net (outgoing)/ incoming

resources (94) - (3) (97) 30Realised gains

on investments - - - - 22Unrealised (losses)/ gains

on investments (138) - (253) (391) (134)

At 31 March 628 278 1,017 1,923 2,411

The designated funds are funds set aside by Council for various grants forresearch and scholarship and arise from unrestricted bequests.

1188.. RREESSTTRRIICCTTEEDD FFUUNNDDSS

British Academy Getty Cary Appeal PHI Other Total TotalFund Fund Fund Fund Funds Funds 2009 2008

£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000

At 1 April 15 98 154 32 2,020 97 2,416 620

Total incoming resources - - 6 9 2,656 7 2,678 3,391

Total resources expended (15) (57) (15) (5) (1,734) (8) (1,834) ( 1,582)

Realised gains oninvestments - - - - - - - 2

Unrealised (losses)/ gains on investments - - (37) - - (8) (45) (15)

At 31 March - 41 108 36 2,942 88 3,215 2,416

The 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 related 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 FUNDS

Unrestricted RestrictedFunds Funds Total£’000 £’000 £’000

Fund balances at 31 March 2009 are represented by:Tangible fixed assets 557 - 557Investments 1,534 140 1,674Cash 327 3,663 3,990Other current assets 77 - 77Current liabilities (275) (588) (863)Long-term liabilities (297) - (297)Total net assets 1,923 3,215 5,138

20. COMMITMENTS

The School has awarded grants and scholarships totalling £89,395 to be paidin 2009–10 (2008–9 — £85,210). No provision has been made for these grantsas the conditions attaching to the grants had not been met at 31 March 2009.

21. CONTROLLING PARTY

The activities of the School are controlled by Council. There is no ultimatecontrolling party of the School.

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Faculty of the Fine Arts

Ms E. Bonham Carter Ms S. Boyce OBE°Mr W. Cobbing°Ms J. FarrerMr J. FobertMs A. Gallagher Mr J. Gill (Chair from January 2009)Ms C. Hawley*Professor C. Hopkins Ms T. Kovats°Ms J. Lomax OBE(Chair to December 2008)*Ms V. LovellMr D. MasiProfessor R. Tavernor°Ms A. Turnbull*Dr A. WilliamsonMr A. Wilson

Faculty of Archaeology, History andLetters

Dr C. Burdett*Dr E. Isayev Dr V. IzzetDr R. JacksonProfessor R. McKitterick Professor M. Millett (Chair of Archaeology)Professor S. Milner Dr J. Crawley Quinn Professor L. Riall Dr C. RichardsonDr C. Robertson Dr F. Salmon (Chair)Dr A. Sennis Dr R. Skeates Mr B. Ward-Perkins (Chair of Publications)Professor R. Whitehouse*Professor A. WilsonMr M. Wilson Jones

___________________° Joined during 2008–9* Left during 2008–9

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I l lustrat ion Acknowledgements

Cover: Neo-Attic relief in house in south-westcorner of Herculaneum, photograph by Mimmo

Capone and courtesy of the SoprintendenzaSpeciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei

Page 5 Photograph by David SperoPages 6–7 Photographs by Rebecca Madgin and

Jacopo BenciPage 9 Photograph courtesy of Liz Rideal

Page 10 Photograph by Sophie Wallace-HadrillPages 12–3 Photographs by Andrew Wallace-

Hadrill and SosandraPages 17–8 Photographs by David Spero and

Robert Coates-StephensPages 23, 25 Photographs by Stephen Kay and

Simon Keay/Portus project, and courtesy of theSoprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia;

image by Jessica OdgenPages 29–31 Photographs by David Spero, Jacopo

Benci, Pierre Gendron, Dragica Janketic Carlin,Ruth Murray, Cath Keay, Fernando Maquieira and

Penelope CainPage 33 Photograph by Claudia Gianvenuti

Page 35 Photograph in BSR Archive collection

Graphic Design Silvia StuckyPrinting Società Tipografica Romana srl, Rome

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