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Peer Review: the Challenges for the Humanities and Social Sciences. A British Academy Review (BAR)
Professor Albert Weale FBA, Chairman of the British Academy’s Peer Review Working Group, reports on the main findings and recommendations of the Review.
Christina of Markyate and the St Albans Psalter
In 2003 the British Academy sponsored a conference in St Albans, drawing together a project to digitise the St Albans Psalter, and an edited volume on Christina of Markyate. Dr Jane Geddes, director of the digitisation project and organiser of the conference, describes the highlights.
The Old French Crusade Cycle
The British Academy awarded a series of research grants to Nigel Thorp for the preparation of a critical edition of an epic poem, La Chanson de Jérusalem. The work formed part of complete new edition of the Old French Crusade Cycle, an international project under the general editorship of Emanuel …
A Hoard of Votive Bronzes from the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara
Dr Paul T Nicholson, Cardiff University, describes the discovery of a unique hoard of bronzes illustrating the popularity of the sacred animal cults associated with Saqqara, and the painstaking work to conserve and identify them. The project is sponsored by the Egypt Exploration Society.
Rock Carvings of North and West Europe
Professor John Coles FBA has been working on Scandinavian rock art since the early 1990s. In April 2004 he convened a conference, jointly sponsored by the British Academy and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, to look at various aspects of the carvings found in north and …
Welcome to the Software-Sorted Society
Professor Stephen Graham, of Durham University, analyses the extent to which society has become subject to visible and invisible surveillance, tracking, and sorting technologies. He draws attention to the radical and divisive social consequences of ‘software-sorting’ and calls for public regulation of the systems that are coming to pervade so …
Moral Panics: Then and Now
In 1972, Professor Stanley Cohen FBA published his seminal work ‘Folk Devils and Moral Panics’. On 9 March 2007, Professor Cohen was joined at the British Academy by Professor David Garland, and Professor Stuart Hall FBA, in an evening meeting to reflect on what has happened to the notion of …
Languages Matter
Professor Marian Hobson FBA reports on the various activities the Academy is undertaking to draw attention to the crisis in language learning.
In brief (BAR 11)
Short notices on: Britain in the 1950s: consensus or conflict?; Reason and identity; The origins of the Arts and Humanities Research Council; Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture from the West Riding of Yorkshire.
In brief (BAR 12)
Short notices on: Evolving Societies 2008; Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism.
Georgia, the 'Man in the Leopard's Skin': The Past, Present and Future of Georgia's Middle Eastern Communities
In May 2008, Professor Harry Norris visited Georgia to study the current situation of non-European communities in the country. Here he provides some historical and cultural background to this politically and ethnically complex part of the world.
Other People (BAR)
On 7 November 2000 Professor Amartya Sen FBA delivered the fourth Annual British Academy Lecture. In this extract, Professor Sen considers various aspects of identity.
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