Bloomsbury Summer School & Academy
Fascinated by ancient civilisations?
We offer anyone with any level of knowledge, inspiring short courses on ancient Egypt and other areas of the ancient world.
2026 course timetable
Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July
HIEROGLYPHS: THE NEXT STEP
Course Director: Mr Kit Devine (MPhil Oxhon)
To be held in person at UCL Institute of Archaeology (31 - 34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY UK).
Monday 29 June
10:45 – 11:00*
Students assemble in BSS&A Common Room
11:00 – 11:30
BSS&A Director’s Welcome Address
11:30 – 13:00
1. Introduction and Welcome Back to Hieroglyphs
13:00 - 14:30
Welcome Lunch in BSS&A Common Room (14:00 Short optional tour of UCL with the Director)
14:30 – 15:45
2. Explanation: Captions, verbs, and verb groups
16:15 – 17:30
3. Guided Reading
17:45
Non-BSS&A event: Get together with fellow students for a drink in the Woolf and Whistle Bar on the ground floor of the Tavistock Hotel
Tuesday 30 June
10:00 – 11:15
4. Explanation: Describing the past with sdm.n=f ‘he has heard’
11:45 – 13:00
5. Guided Reading
14:15 – 15:30
6. Explanation: Describing the past with or without iw
16:00 – 17:15
17:15 – 18:30
7. Guided Reading
BSS&A Social on Common Room balcony (you are welcome to invite guests)
Wednesday 1 July
10:00 – 11:15
8. Explanation: n sdm=f ‘he has not heard’ and other matters
11:45 – 13:00
9. Guided Reading
14:15 – 15:30
10. Explanation: Characterisation with ink ‘I am’
16:00 – 17:15
11. Guided Reading
Non-BSS&A event: Get together with fellow students for dinner at Poppadom Indian Kitchen in the Tavistock Hotel
Thursday 2 July
10:00 – 11:15
12. Explanation: About pronouns and participles endings
11:45 – 13:00
13. Guided Reading
14:15 – 15:30
14. Explanation: The appeal to the living
16:00 – 17:15
15. Guided Reading
Friday 3 July
10:00 – 11:15
16. Explanation: Anticipating the future with sdm=f
11:45 – 13:00
17. Guided Reading
14:00 – 15:15
18. A Final Review
15:45 – 17:15
19. Guided Reading and Farewell
17:15 – 19:00
End-of-Course Drinks Party (you are welcome to invite guests)
* All times are London UK time
NB: Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course.
