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The Survey of English Place-Names
The English Place-Name Society has been in existence since 1923, and has been supported morally and financially by the British Academy for most of these 77 years. The main purpose of the Society is to conduct and to publish a national place-name survey. Professor Richard Coates, President of the English …
Academics, Academies and Public Policy: The Case of the American Health Care Debate
In the British Academy Fellows Seminar on 7 January 2010, Professor Ted Marmor FBA discussed the role that academics can play in contributing to public debate, and commended the British Academy on the recent establishment of its Policy Centre. In contrast, he provided an American perspective on the lack of …
Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator? (BAR 8)
The Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture was delivered at the Academy on 3 November 2003 by Professor Eric Foner FBA, DeWitt Clinton Professor at Columbia University. In his lecture, Professor Foner explored the attitudes toward slavery that Lincoln held for virtually his entire life, and traced how he changed under the …
Everybody Counts but Not Everybody Understands Numbers
Professor Brian Butterworth FBA delivered the annual Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society lecture on 16 November 2004. In this edited extract, he describes the unrecognised handicap of dyscalculia.
Elementary, my dear Watson, the clue is in the genes ... or is it? (BAR)
On 5 November 2001, Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith FBA FMedSci, Head of the Neurocognitive Development Unit at University College London, delivered a special lecture at the Academy to celebrate the Centenary of the British Psychological Society. In this edited extract, she outlines the theme of her lecture.
Why Humans aren't just Great Apes
Professor Robin Dunbar FBA gave the 2007 Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture. He argued that the real difference between humans and the great apes lies in our ability to live in the virtual world of the mind. Story-telling plays an important role in social bonding in all human cultures, …
'Ending the party': A practitioner's perspective of fiscal squeeze
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 …
'All the world's knowledge'
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 …
Britain, Germany and Social Europe, 1973-2020
In the inaugural Anglo-German Foundation Lecture delivered at the British Academy on 25 January 2011, Sir Tony Atkinson FBA considered the evolution of social policy in Europe, and its impact on inequality, poverty, social exclusion and well-being. In this extract, he discusses the development of new means to assess well-being …
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