Since its earliest years the British Academy has been privileged to receive support in the form of legacy donations from its Fellows and friends.
The British Academy’s sumptuous two-part catalogue of ‘The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford’ was launched at a reception in the college on 19 April 2013. It is the latest in the British Academy’s Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Catalogue of Medieval Window Glass) series. The catalogue’s author, Dr Tim …
The Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding is the Academy’s most valuable prize, and will be awarded annually at least until 2017. At a ceremony held at the British Academy on 4 July 2013, the inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize was awarded to Karen Armstrong – in recognition of her body …
On 27 February 2013, the British Academy held a conference on ‘What is Fundamentalism – and What Threats does it Pose to Today’s World?’ The event was convened at the suggestion of James Dunn, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the University of Durham, and a Fellow of the British …
Dr Mattia Toaldo is a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. In May 2013, a conference was held at the British Academy on ‘Constitutionalism and the Arab Uprisings: Politics and Law in a New Middle East’. The conference was jointly organised by the British School at Rome, the …
Michael Lipton is Professor of Economics, in the Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex, and a Fellow of the British Academy. This article is based on an address given by Professor Lipton on receiving the Leontief Prize, at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, on 3 April 2012.
On 21 June 2013, the British Academy and the Royal Society co-hosted a UK ‘town hall’ meeting at which researchers and a range of stakeholders were able to discover more about the new ‘Future Earth’ initiative, which is being led by the International Council for Science (ICSU).
Dr Gary Williams, of the University of Essex, was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant in 2006 to research into ‘US-Grenadian relations 1979-83: revolution and intervention in the backyard’.
Richard Wyn Jones is Director of the Wales Governance Centre and Professor of Welsh Politics at Cardiff University. On 31 May 2013, he participated in a conference held at the British Academy on ‘Welsh Devolution in Perspective’. It looked at the historical and social ties between Wales, the rest of …
Dr Lisa Vanhala was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2012 at the University of Oxford and at University College London. She is now Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy, University College London. Her research on legal mobilisation in the UK was published …
Dr Peter Lambert and Professor Björn Weiler – both of the Department of History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth University – were joint organisers of the British Academy Conference on ‘Uses of the Past in Past Societies: A Global Perspective’, held at the British Academy on 11-12 June 2013. The …
At an event held at the British Academy on 9 July 2013, Rachel Lomax recalled past examples of fiscal squeeze and compared them with current circumstances – in conversation with Professor Tony Travers. This is an edited version of the conversation, which ranged from the IMF crisis of 1976 to …
The text of Jane C Ginsburg’s British Academy Law Lecture – ‘From Hypatia to Victor Hugo to Larry and Sergey: “All the world’s knowledge” and universal authors’ rights’ – was one of the first articles posted to the new online open-access Journal of the British Academy, in July 2013. The …
Dawn Adès is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, and a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1995, she delivered the Aspects of Art Lecture on ‘Marcel Duchamp and the Paradox of Modernity’.
In these extracts from his address to the Annual General Meeting on 18 July 2013, the outgoing President of the British Academy, Professor Sir Adam Roberts, reflects on how the Academy has made progress on the objectives that he set for it four years ago.
Drawing on evidence ‘from the archive’, this is the story of how the distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1929, having originally been rejected in 1920.
