Thanks to a generous donation by Professor Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge), the BSR Research Collections Department has undertaken an ambitious project to study and make available the collection of photographs, lantern slides and lessons from the first half of the 20th century, received from the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (London).
Dr Zoe Langer was appointed Research assistant for the first stages of the project. She was able to study in detail and reorganise the collection, and she described it in detail in our Archive and Special collections Catalogue.
She also learned to digitise lantern slides – a complex process – and created a new collection in our digital library, complete with records for each image. As part of the public engagement aspect of the project, she recreated one of the lectures that the Roman Society was lending and selling in the UK, illustrated by 50 lantern slides.
The project will also include a digital presentation of the lessons now kept in the archive.
