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The British Academy 10-Minute Talks

Wednesdays

The world’s leading professors explain the latest thinking in the humanities and social sciences in just 10 minutes.

Talks

Early Medieval Wales - a matter of identity

What the defenders of the slave trade have to teach us

Why laughter matters

Britain and Europe in a Troubled World

The crisis of the meritocracy - why Britain has needed more and more education

COVID-19 and inequalities

Entrepreneurship

COVID-19 public inquiry - a case of when, not if?

Religion and the history of terrorism

Art historian, professor, writer, spy – the extraordinary story of Anthony Blunt

War, revolution and pandemic 1918-19

Keeping a diary in 1941

The life and work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Climate and war

America first and American fascism

Westminster Abbey – A Church in History

Theatre marketing and ballads in the time of Shakespeare

Can watching films be good for us?

Parenting for a digital future

Philosophy in prison

Music and wellbeing

How disabled people achieve good lives in three African countries

China's good war

Making the real Thomas Cromwell stand up

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