For the 100th anniversary of excavations in Mycenae, which began in 1920, Cambridge Digital Library is hosting the digitised archive of the historic British School at Athens led excavations at the site between the 1920s and the 1950s. 

Scope: photographs, drawings, notebooks, plans, excavation records

Digital Mycenae webpage: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/digitalmycenae
Mycenae Archive via Cambridge Library Online: 
​cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/mycenae

Transcribed diaries and field reports from 1930s excavations at Antioch, conducted by the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. The archive relating to these excavations also includes photographs and films, find cards, drawings, correspondence.

​Access the transcribed reports and diaries here.
Browse document sets here.
Project website: vrc.princeton.edu/researchphotographs/s/antioch/page/introduction

Further Reading
Saliou, Catherine. Historie Urbaine de l'Orient romain tardif.[online]

Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens continues to be an integral part of archaeological research in Greece, along with the other 'foreign' schools in Athens. The ASCSA has extensive archival collections, including the personal papers of staff and students, excavation records, administrative history records, and photographs.
 
Website: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASCSAthens
Archive webpage: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/research/personal-papers-and-archives
 
Downloadable annual reports (from 1881): https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/ascsa-annual-reports
 
Explore the history of the School through "From the Archivist's Notebook" the blog of School archivist Natalia Vogiekoff-Brogan.

Founded in 1879, the Hellenic Society continues to support research in the classical world. With subscriptions, it helped to finance travels and explorations into Greece and Asia Minor in the 1880s and provided grants for some of the early British School at Athens students.

The Society has made some of its archive relating to its founder George Macmillan, and one of the archaeologists it first supported, William Mitchell Ramsay, available online. The Society also holds the photographic collection of WJ Stillman, comprising historic images of Greece.

​Twitter: @Hellenic_Soc
Website: https://www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/
Digital Collections: https://www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/about-us/george-a-macmillan-lettres/

Further Reading: 
Doyle, Richella. 2009. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies Archive of George A. Macmillan's Personal Papers. Archaeological Reports 56: 203-218.

Held in the University of Reading's Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. Records relate to the history of excavations mainly in Greece in the early 20th century. Includes correspondence to the Museum's founders, Percy Ure and Annie Ure, from various Greek archaeologists.

​More details on the Museum's holdings here.

Scope of collections: correspondence, letters, diaries, research notes and journals, excavation records, photographs, maps, museum records.

Email: [email protected]
Research blog: https://research.reading.ac.uk/curiosi/ure-routes/
Website: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/ure-museum/
​Archive webpage: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/ure-museum/explore/collections-overview/archives/
Twitter: @UreMuseum

Founded in 1901, the British School at Rome joined the British School at Athens (est. 1886) as a centre for archaeologists, architects, artists and travellers to engage with the archaeology, architecture, art and history of Rome, Italy and beyond.  Originally housed in the Palazzo Odescalchi, in 1916 the BSR moved to its current premises, a converted Edwin Lutyens building originally designed as the British Pavilion in the 1911 International Exhibition.

One early BSR director was Thomas Ashby, who alongside Assistant Director Eugénie Sellers Strong presided over the School in early 20th century.  The archaeologist John Ward-Perkins, Director of the BSA just after WW2, also made an important contribution to archaeology in Italy through field surveys.

Archive projects include "Thomas Ashby and the First World War" and "Ashby and the Abruzzo".

Scope of collections:
Photographs, documents (inc. School administrative records, correspondence), maps, prints

Website: http://www.bsr.ac.uk/
Archives webpage: http://www.bsr.ac.uk/library/archive
Digital Collections website: www.bsr.ac.uk/library/digital-collections; http://www.bsrdigitalcollections.it/ 
Blog: britishschoolatrome.wordpress.com/category/library-archive/
Twitter: @the_bsr

Relevant contact:
Alessandra Giovenco, Archivist

Further Reading
Dyson, S. 2001. Eugenie Sellers Strong: Portrait of an Archaeologist.

Wallace-Hadrill, A. 2001. The British School at Rome: One Hundred Years. London: British School at Rome.

Founded in 1886, the British School at Athens (BSA) continues to be a centre for the study of archaeology, art and architecture of ancient Greece and the Greek world. The BSA has an extensive archive including administrative records of the School, records of the School's many excavations, and personal papers. A recent addition to the School's Digital Collections is the 1887 diary of Emily Penrose, daughter of the School's first Director Francis Cranmer Penrose, charting her time in Athens.

Website: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/
Twitter: @BSAthens
Archive webpage: www.bsa.ac.uk/about-us/archive/
Digital Collections: https://digital.bsa.ac.uk/

Summary by Amara Thornton

Founded in 1707 for researching the antiquities and monuments of the British Isles, the Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) holds an important place in the history of archaeology as a supporter and campaigner for archaeology and heritage. It was a key venue for reporting discoveries through public lectures and hosted exhibitions of excavated artefacts from Britain and abroad.  Researchers will find relevant material in several collections at the SAL: in the Library, the Archives and Prints and Drawings.  The SAL also holds the records of the Society of Dilettanti and the Royal Archaeological Institute.

Scope of collections:
Administrative records (SAL Minute Books, SAL Executive Committee Minute Books, Council Books, Fellowship blue papers and lists), exhibition pamphlets, archaeological archives for excavations (including Old Sarum, Silchester, Stonehenge, Glastonbury), prints and drawings of antiquities and topography, photographs, correspondence

Website: https://www.sal.org.uk/
https://www.sal.org.uk/library/manuscripts-and-archives/
Twitter: @SocAntiquaries

Relevant Contacts:
Library email: [email protected]

Further Reading:

Evans, J. 1956. A History of the Society of Antiquaries. London: Oxford University Press. 

Gaimster, D. McCarthy, S. and Nurse, B. 2007. Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007. London: Royal Academy of Arts.

Pearse, S. 2007. Visions of Antiquity: the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1707-2007. London: Society of Antiquaries of London.

Summary by Amara Thornton

John Garstang (1876-1956) was a British archaeologist who directed excavations in Britain, Egypt, Sudan, Asia Minor/Turkey, British Mandate Palestine and British Mandate Transjordan.  As an Oxford student, he worked first on Romano-British sites under Professor Francis Haverfield.  He subsequently became a student under Flinders Petrie's Egyptian Research Account training scheme, and began working in Egypt.  He was first Honorary Reader in Egyptology at Liverpool University, and after Liverpool's Institute of Archaeology was set up he became Professor of the Methods and Practice of Archaeology at Liverpool.

The Garstang Museum at Liverpool holds records relating to the Institute of Archaeology at Liverpool, as well as records relating to the excavation activities of Garstang and a number of other archaeologists working primarily in Egypt, Sudan and Asia Minor during the 20th century.

Scope of collection:
Administrative records, excavation records, correspondence, museum records, photographs, lantern slides. For further details see the Garstang Museum Jisc/Archives Hub listing.

Twitter: @GarstangMuseum
Website: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/garstang-museum/
Pinterest page: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/garstangm/mero%C3%AB-africas-forgotten-empire/
Email: [email protected]