In February–April 2014, the British Academy held its first series of ‘British Academy Debates’, on the subject of Ageing. The three Debates were held in London, Sheffield and Edinburgh. This article reproduces the first part of the British Academy’s booklet on Ageing.
In September 2013, the British Academy and the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial) held a conference on ‘Gertrude Bell and Iraq – A Life and Legacy’. This article by Dr Paul Collins, a Council Member of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, draws …
On 3 July 2014, the British Academy launched a report entitled ‘A Presumption Against Imprisonment: Social Order and Social Values’. This article is taken from the report’s Foreword, written by the Rt Hon. the Lord Woolf. Harry Woolf was formerly Lord Chief Justice of England, and is an Honorary Fellow …
The third in the series of British Academy Debates on Ageing – ‘The Best Years of Our Lives? Body, Brain and Well-being’ – was held in Edinburgh. On 30 April 2014, as a satellite event, the British Academy held a small expert workshop entitled ‘Is the World Too Fast When …
The concept of soft power – coined by Joseph Nye, a Fellow of the British Academy – is today a subject of considerable debate, as governments at home and abroad seek to exploit their ‘soft power assets’ in furthering their foreign policy objectives. In March 2014, the British Academy published …
In September 2013, the British Academy published an edition of ‘The Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad’. Here one of the volume editors describes this remarkable cache of documents and the project that has brought them to life.
Julia O’Connell Davidson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, was one of the convenors of a British Academy Conference on ‘Slaveries Old and New: The Meaning of Freedom’, held on 27-28 March 2014.
During 2014, the British Academy is holding a number of events to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. The building that the Academy now occupies played its own significant part in the history of the War – as revealed here by the Academy’s archivist, Karen …
December 2013 saw the publication of the final fascicule (part) of the British Academy’s Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, an undertaking first proposed in 1913. Its current editor, Richard Ashdowne, reflects on bringing a hundred years of research to a close.
Dr Mandy Sadan is a former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, and is now Reader in the History of South East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph, 'Being and Becoming Kachin: Histories Beyond the State in the Borderworlds …
Dr Troy Sternberg held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2010-2013. He is a researcher in the School of Geography at the University of Oxford.
In September 2013, the British Academy published in its ‘Anglo-Saxon Charters’ series a two-volume edition of the ‘Charters of Christ Church Canterbury’, edited by Professor Nicholas Brooks fba and Dr Susan Kelly. Professor Brooks wrote this article for the ‘British Academy Review’ about this major historical resource, before sadly passing …
Professor Nigel Vincent FBA has just completed his term as the British Academy’s Vice-President for Research and Higher Education Policy. A major aspect of his four years of office has been the development of a programme targeting deficits in both Languages and Quantitative Skills in UK education and research. On …
Dr Philippa Steele is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. In May 2014, she delivered the Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford, on ‘Society and Writing in Ancient Cyprus’.
Dr Elina Screen here discusses her work on the ‘Anglo-Saxon Coins in Norway’ project – a collaboration between the British Academy’s ‘Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles’ (SCBI) research project and the Norwegian partner museums. Her research has led to two illustrated catalogues in the SCBI series on ‘Norwegian …
This is the latest in a series of interviews with Fellows of the British Academy, showing leading humanities and social sciences academics at work.
