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Scuffles and skirmishes in interwar French politics

Chris Millington explores a violent French subculture in the 1920s and 1930s.

Language as a reflection of society: Examples from Palestinian Arabic

Uri Horesh explains how social forces change language.

The Victorians and French novels

Juliette Atkinson introduces us to the Victorians’ conflicted relationship with the French novel.

Neural plasticity: don't fall for the hype

Mirko Farina warns us not to get over-excited by claims for brain improvement.

Imagining new worlds: forging 'non-western' International Relations in late colonial India

Martin J. Bayly reveals an Indian dimension to the development of International Relations studies.

Where ants dig up gold: 'India', selfhood and the myths manufacturing a nation

As India seeks to define its identity in its 70th anniversary, Bihani Sarkar reveals that it has always been the subject of myth-making.

'It really changed my life completely': Thirty years of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

Five personal accounts of this ‘early career’ support.

How Philosophers Die

Dr David Palfrey, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2003-06, examines some stories about the deaths of philosophers and asks whether, from a philosophical perspective, the manner of their death can tell us anything about the precepts they espoused.

Rhyming Pictures: Walter Crane and the Art of Reading

Dr Grace Brockington describes the educational, aesthetic and political ideals underpinning Walter Crane’s art, and illustrates his views on the importance of the visual in our first encounter with written language.

Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender, and Political Culture in Britain, 1815–1867

A new British Academy book provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of women’s involvement in British political culture in the first half of the 19th century. In these extracts, Dr Kathryn Gleadle describes how women often engaged with politics issues through a prominent male relative – in this case, …

Beggars, Blaggers and Bums? Media Representations of Homeless People

As part of her British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (1998-2001), Dr Rebekah Widdowfield has been examining media representations of homelessness and homeless people in the local, regional and national press. This has been a wide-ranging study examining the type of article, content, approach, language and, where possible, the use of photographs …

Name Labels in Late Antique Mosaics

Dr Ruth Leader was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (1998-2001) to work on visual culture in late antiquity. Here she describes the phenomenon of incorporating inscriptions and labelled figures personifying abstract concepts in the mosaics of the period, and considers their significance.

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