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Welcome to the webpage of the Accordia Research Institute

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Accordia is a research institute in the University of London. It operates in association with the Institute of Archaeology, UCL and with the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. It is dedicated to the promotion and co-ordination of research into all aspects of early Italy, from first settlement to the end of the pre-industrial period. 

 

We organise lectures, research seminars, conferences and exhibitions on aspects of Italian archaeology and history, and publish a regular journal on the same theme; details of the 2024-2025 lecture series can be found here. 

 

Accordia also has an extensive programme of research publications. We publish specialist volumes, seminars, conferences and excavation reports. Our policy is to encourage and support research into early Italy, especially by younger scholars, to get new work disseminated as rapidly as possible, and to improve access to recent and innovative research. We believe our books and our journal represent a valuable contribution to the development of the subject area. Accordia publishes its own Journal, the Accordia Research Papers. 

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We also run - or are associated with - a number of research and fieldwork projects based in Britain and in Italy.

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Accordia operates on a voluntary, non-profit basis, supported by subscriptions and donations. Publications are self-financing. Everyone gives their services without payment.

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News and Recent Publications​​​​

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• Accordia is happy to announce that the prize for the best Early Career Talk of the 2025-2026 year is Stefano Floris for his talk on ‘The tophet of Bithia (south Sardinia): new evidence from recent excavations’.
  
  Congratulations, Stefano!
   

• Ruth Whitehouse published Writing Matters: Italy in the First Millennium BCE with Bloomsbury in 2024. ​

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Accordia Events  2026-2027

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The full programme for this year's Accordia Lectures can be found here. As in previous years, lectures are held either at the Senate House or the Institute of Archaeology in Gordon Square. We are also very pleased that the fourth series of the Early Career talks will also continue -details will be announced here soon.

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Accordia Lecture

Tuesday, October 13, 17.30​

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Joint Lecture with the Institute of Classical Studies

Room 261, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1

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The earliest evidence of chickens in Italy 

Umberto Albatella, University of Sheffield

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