Posts from our Fellows, researchers and staff about the humanities, social sciences and the British Academy's work.
Professor Andrew Louth FBA explains the history of the Byzantine Empire and the importance of understanding its history and culture.
The five shortlisted authors explore the legacies of empire, challenge popular misconceptions and question ideas of normality and belonging.
Professor Hannah Barker explores experiences of homeworking in 19th-century England.
Read an extract from the 2020 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize-nominated book exploring intergenerational trauma, the alarming rise of youth suicide and the history of Indigenous peoples.
Read an extract from the 2020 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize-nominated book telling the story of pioneering anthropologists in the early 20th century.
Read an extract from the 2020 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize-nominated book exploring the history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s history.
Read an extract from the 2020 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize-nominated book showing how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation.
Read an extract from ‘Imperial Intimacies', a haunting, evocative history of British Empire told through one woman’s family story and one of five books shortlisted for the 2020 Al-Rodhan Prize.
Professor Angela McRobbie explains the origins of cultural studies as an academic discipline.
Professor Timothy Williamson FBA explains the questions asked by metaphysicians and how you may already be asking them yourself.
Professor Andrew Kahn FBA explores the ways that Catherine the Great impacted Imperial Russian history.
Professor Teresa Webber FBA explains how the study of pre-modern manuscripts combines knowledge of the ancient world with the use of new technologies.
Professor Imran Rasul FBA and Dr Brendon McConnell look at sentencing outcomes in the Federal Criminal Justice System to examine contagious animosity across outgroups.
Professor Dame Hermione Lee FBA, author of works on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton and Penelope Fitzgerald, explains the history, meaning and importance of biography.
Professor Michael Kenny and Jack Sheldon explore how, in some important respects, the British state is functioning as the government of England alone.
The refugee experience is often thought of as temporary but Dr Yasmine Shamma discusses when refugees begin to put down roots in the pursuit of a place to call home.
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