British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies (BILNAS)

📢 BILNAS Archivist Vacancy BILNAS is looking for an experienced Archivist to join the School of Heritage and Culture at the University of Leicester, providing maternity leave cover for the internationally-significant BILNAS Archive. For full details and to apply: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

Ancient Building with Frescoed Walls Discovered in Libya | Arkeonews arkeonews.net/ancient-buil...

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS archives 📸 Convoy of jeeps in the desert forming part of an oil exploration team. Captioned on the back “Departure for Fly Camp of Oil Exploration Crew”. 1960s Leisure camp of BP Ltd in Fezzan. 1960s © BILNAS Archive Roland C. Shaw Photographs BILNAS/D8/1/11, D8/1/13

Are you interested in global challenges and looking to grow your skills, career and international networks? Our Global Innovation Fellowships scheme, run in partnership with @carnegieendowment.org, could be an excellent fit for you. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4rzY4zu

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🏛 Journey through the BILNAS archives
 📸 Photograph of a young man throwing clay on a pottery wheel. A note on the reverse of the image says “Pottery is an ancient craft widely practiced in Libya”. 1960s. © BILNAS Archive: Roland C. Shaw Photographs BILNAS/D8/1/10

📣 Just 2 DAYS to go until the first BILNAS lecture of the new academic year: 'The AFRIPAL Project in Musti: An Epigraphical Component' by Karol Kłodziński, Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk. 📆 Thurs 15 October, 5pm (UK time) 💻 To Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... via Zoom.

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Professor Paul Bennett MBE. A former Chairman and Head of Mission at BILNAS, he was a major figure in Libyan archaeology, and in his home town of Canterbury. His knowledge, enthusiasm, generous spirit, and good humour will be greatly missed.

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives 📸 Images from a weekend in Homs, July 1950, by Anthony Thwaite: ‘Cameron Highlander’s band beating retreat on the square’. © BILNAS Archive: Anthony Thwaite Collection on Leptis Magna and other sites BILNAS D57/2 ___ More here: www.bilnas.org/resources/ar...

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives 📸 Images from a weekend in Homs, July 1950, by Anthony Thwaite: 'Arab police with their horses’. © BILNAS Archive: Anthony Thwaite Collection on Leptis Magna and other sites BILNAS D57/2 ____ 🗄 Explore the BILNAS Archives 👇 www.bilnas.org/resources/ar...

📣 Call for Papers and Registration: 'Critical Digital Archives: Travel, Translation, Transformation – A Hybrid Symposium on Archives in and from the SWANA Region' 📆 Thurs 21–Fri 22 January 2027 A BILNAS-sponsored event. Full details here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Deadline: Wed 30 Sept 2026

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives 📸 ‘Monument’ at Giado, in the Gebel Nafusa – a mountain range in northwestern Libya – which was later dismantled. © BILNAS Archive: Olwen Brogan Collection BILNAS D41/3/11/1/14 ____ 🗄 Explore the BILNAS Archives yourself here 👇 www.bilnas.org/resources/ar...

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives 📸 An unknown person carrying a ceramic jar, probably near Nalut, northwestern Libya; date unknown. © BILNAS Archive: Olwen Brogan collection BILNAS D41/3/11/1/13 ___ 🗄 For more about the BILNAS Archives visit our website 👇 bilnas.org/resources/ar...

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives English poet Anthony Thwaite (AST) and Harry S? (HDS), in the Severan Basilica at Lepcis Magna in 1950 or 1951. © BILNAS Archive: Anthony Thwaite Collection on Leptis Magna and other sites BILNAS D57/1

🏛📚 BILNAS General Secretary, Dr Victoria Leitch, renewed her SOAS Library card this week – FREE thanks to membership of BILNAS, which is just £30 per year. So why not join BILNAS today to take advantage of this valuable privilege, as membership of @soaslibrary.bsky.social normally costs £200 p.a.?

We are delighted to share this research blog article by BILNAS grant recipient Dr Serag El Hegazi, Lecturer in International Development and the Program Leader for the MSc in Project Planning and Management at the @uniofbradford.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/recons...

Amel Bensalim, PhD candidate in the Department of History from @princeton.edu, visited the BILNAS Archives to look at archaeological maps and notes connected to her work on medieval environmental history in Ifriqiya. The pioneering work of BILNAS scholars has proven fundamental to her research.

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives 📸 Colour photograph of mosaic flooring and stone wall at Casa Brogan, Sabratha, taken by G.D.B. Jones. The photograph features manuscript note on verso "GDBJ 1984." © BILNAS Archive: Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins Collection BILNAS/D5/12/1/15/4s1

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives 📸 Photograph of capital from the Antonine Temple, Sabratha. December 1946 © BILNAS Archive: Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins Collection BILNAS/D5/12/1/14/1/10/S1

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives 📒 Notebook containing manuscript notes pertaining to box lists of Sabratha finds. A catalogue of ceramic forms including lids, jugs and flagons by John Dore, 1985. © BILNAS Archive: Kathleen Kenyon & John Ward-Perkins Collection BILNAS/D5/9/1/7

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives The Hellenistic Black Glazed Wares notes by Molly Aylwin Cotton, December 1970: Campana A forms. © BILNAS Archive: Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins Collection BILNAS/D5/8/8

📣 Attention Scholars! Fellow BIRI, the British Institute in Eastern Africa, has issued a Call for Applications for its Regional Research Associates Award. 📆 Deadline: Monday 29 June 2026, 5pm BST / 7pm EAT For full details visit the BIEA website at: biea.ac.uk/call-for-app...

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives 📸 Nine men with goats, from the Ghirza collection. © BILNAS Archive: Ghirza collection BILNAS/D41/2/7/2/57S1 _____ 🗄 Would you like to explore the BILNAS Archives yourself? If so, visit our website for more details 👇 www.bilnas.org/resources/ar...

📣 There's just three days to go until THE BILNAS SUMMER EVENT 2026: "The Wisdom of the Hand – Amazigh Textile Tradition in Libya and Tunisia" 📆 Friday 29 May 6pm-9pm 📍 In person at The Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk St, London, SE1 0BL 🎟 Get your tickets at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wisdom...

📣 "Volcanic Ash Layers (Tephra) to Link Archaeological and Climate Records in North West Africa" by Dr Danielle McLean. 💻A recording of this lecture is now available to view on the BILNAS YouTube channel 👇 youtu.be/AM0UAh_4vPc

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives Tomb South C: stone 3 showing fish around rosette. © BILNAS Archive: Ghirza collection BILNAS/D41/2/9/1/14S1 ___ 🗄 Would you like to explore the BILNAS Archives? If so, visit our website for contact details and access information: bilnas.org/resources/ar...

📣 Publication Announcement: Actes du colloque international Mahdia 2-3-4 décembre 2019, Vol III: "The two Syrtes between sea and Sahara through History: a space of exchange, rivalry and conflict." Textes réunis et présentés par Hafedh ABDOULI, Anna LEONE, Salem MOKNI, 2025.

How can volcanic ash layers be used to link #archaeological and #climate records in NW Africa? Join the online @bilnas.bsky.social talk tomorrow with @danmclean.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow at 5pm (UK time) for the next BILNAS lecture: 'Volcanic Ash Layers (Tephra) to Link Archaeological and Climate Records in North West Africa' by Dr Danielle McLean @danmclean.bsky.social 💻 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Online event. All welcome!

🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives Printed on Permatrace, drawings of cemetery 5, features A-F. © BILNAS Archive: Ghirza collection BILNAS/D41/2/6/10/S1 ___ 📚 Would you like to explore the BILNAS Archives yourself? If so, visit our website for access information: bilnas.org/resources/ar...

Libyan Studies' #openaccess #PaperOfTheMonth is "Exterior vs. interior in early Maghribi mosques" : 📚 https://cup.org/4unTrsB Explore the entire #Architecture collection, free to read until 20 April:🏺 https://cup.org/3PeIT05 @bilnas.bsky.social

📣 Join us for THE BILNAS SUMMER EVENT: "The Wisdom of the Hand – Amazigh Textile Tradition in Libya and Tunisia" 📆 Friday 29 May 6-9pm 📍 The Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk St, London 💻 Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wisdom... 🎟 All welcome! Members: £7; non-members £10

📣 Join us next week for what promises to be a fascinating BILNAS lecture: 'Volcanic Ash Layers (Tephra) to Link Archaeological and Climate Records in North West Africa' by Dr Danielle McLean 📆 Thursday 14 May at 5pm (UK time) 📍 Online via Zoom 💻 To register 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives 📸 Tombs of the sultans of the Beni Chattab at Zuila. © BILNAS Archive: Ghirza collection BILNAS/D/11/1/5/2/2S1

Check out a brand‑new curated collection on Architecture from Libyan Studies, free to access until 15 May: 📚 https://cup.org/4eJCHY6 #LibyanStudies #Architecture @bilnas.bsky.social

📣 "Scaling up Heritage Monitoring in Libya: Fieldwork, Remote Sensing, and Training" – with Ahmed Mahmoud, Muftah Alhaddad and Ahmed Buzaian 💻 A recording of this important presentation is now available to view on the BILNAS YouTube channel. Click on the link 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvSN...

📣Join us in May for the next BILNAS lecture: 'Volcanic Ash Layers (Tephra) to Link Archaeological and Climate Records in North West Africa' by @danmclean.bsky.social 📆 Thursday 14 May at 5pm (UK time) 📍 Online via Zoom 💻 For more details and to register 👇 bilnas.org/event/volcan...

🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives This file shows drawings of stone tools drawn in biro and a report on prehistoric Ghirza, in Italian. © BILNAS Archive: Digital Archive from Ghirza: A Libyan Settlement in the Roman Period, 1953-1984. BILNAS/D41_2_3_1_3

📣 Attention Scholars! There are just over two weeks left to apply for a BILNAS Research Grant. 📆The deadline for applications is Thursday 30 April 2026. ℹ️ For full details, including the online applications form, visit the BILNAS website at: bilnas.org/research-act... #funding #grants

📣 Just one week to go until our collaborative workshop dedicated to exploring Libya’s rich archaeological heritage. 'Preserving the Past, Envisioning the Future: Libya’s Heritage in Focus' 📆 Tuesday 21 April 2pm–5.30pm 📍 King’s College London 💻 Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving...

📚 Check out 'Tripolitania in the Roman Empire and Beyond', edited by @niccolomugnai.bsky.social, a "highly appreciated and necessary academic resource” and an “important foundation for ongoing research” in North Africa. Read the latest reviews and buy your copy now at: bilnas.org/shop/society...