This year the Society celebrates its twentieth year since foundation. We’ve done a lot! Here’s a list:
- 8 trips to Herculaneum averaging 50+ attendees, every other year except 2020
- published 28 issues of the Newsletter
- published monthly e-bulletins since 2016
- published 20 volumes of Sozomena
- awarded 19 valuable student bursaries
- run 3 Schools’ Competitions
- co-founded the American Friends of Herculaneum
- organised 20 Annual General Meetings, each with one or more speakers and much conviviality
- organised other meetings, conferences, visits: Paris; Naples; London (with the Institute of Classical Studies, twice; Royal Maritime Museum, Greenwich; British Museum, twice; Museum of London); Getty Museum (Malibu, CA); Silchester; Colchester; Bath; Bristol; many at Oxford; and more.
- special events for our Benefactor donors
- successfully fundraised for the Ancient Graffiti Project and the Custodian’s Room Project at Herculaneum
- purchased equipment for the Office of the Papyri in Naples
- contributed to the Apolline project at Pollena Trecchia, and excavation at Somma Vesuviana
- donated to the Society for Classical Studies’ (USA) appeal for papyri.info
- assisted the University of Kentucky in running the Mellon Foundation / Friends of Herculaneum ‘Digital Restoration of the Herculaneum Papyri Project ‘ in Naples
- launched YouTube channel
- contributed jury members for the Vesuvius Challenge
Join us and help us do even more for the great World Heritage Site of Herculaneum!