From 1960 onwards there was collaboration in ceramic analysis of Minoan and Mycenaean material between members of the British School at Athens and the Oxford University Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art. In 1974 this led to the establishment of the School's own Research Laboratory in Athens, thanks to the generosity of Dr Marc and Mrs Ismene Fitch, whose names the laboratory bears. Reference is made to other help and benefactions involved in the creation of the laboratory.