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Welcome to the webpage of the Accordia Research Institute

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.

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

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

We are pleased to announce the creation of a new prize for the best paper in the Early Career Talks series. The winner will be chosen by an Accordia committee and the prize will consist of 10 Accordia books of the winner’s choice. We are happy to share that Giacomo Fontana (now of Texas Tech University) is the winner for 2023-2024 for his talk on ‘Empty hillforts: challenging narratives on Samnite society beyond urban-centric views’. Congratulations, Giacomo!

The Accordia Research Papers 16 (2019-2023) was published in summer 2024.
A new book edited by Fabio Saccoccio and Elisa Vecchi, entitled, Who do you think you are? Ethnicity in the Iron Age Mediterranean was released in 2022.

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Accordia Events 2024-2025

The full programme for this year's Accordia Lectures can be found here. This year we are continuing with in person lectures, held either at the Senate House or the Institute of Archaeology in Gordon Square.

The second series of Early Career Researcher seminars organised in conjunction with the University of Nottingham is held on Zoom.

Accordia Lecture

Tuesday, May 6, 17.30

Joint Lecture with the Institute of Archaeology

Room 209, Gordon Square London WC1

Regisvilla: excavations and research in the harbour of Vulci

Carlo Regoli, Fondazione Vulci

Accordia Early Career Talks

Tuesday, May 13 25, 2025 at 17:30 via Zoom

Weight-based bronze fragmentation in Italian Bronze Age hoards:

the first 160 years of studies

Giancarlo Lago, University of Bologna