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Psychology and Climate Change: Collective Solutions to a Global Problem
On 23 September 2010, in his Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture, Professor David Uzzell argued that behaviour-change approaches to climate change need to take account of the societal context that gives rise to the values and attitudes that drive our behaviours. As consumers, our preferences and actions – and …
Lessons from the Aberfan disaster and its aftermath
At the Annual General Meeting in July 2008, 49 distinguished scholars were elected to be Fellows of the British Academy; and on 22 September, a ceremony was held at the Academy to admit them to the Fellowship. Five of the new Fellows were invited to speak about their work and …
Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany (BAR)
Professor Richard J. Evans FBA delivered the Raleigh Lecture on History in 2006. In it, he reviewed the evidence for the degree to which ordinary Germans exercised freedom of choice in backing Hitler’s regime. In this edited extract, he illustrates the extent and range of legal measures used to control …
Middle Eastern politics and oil
On a wintry 4 February 2009, Sir Mark Allen, one of the world’s leading Arabists and a special adviser for BP, gave the third in the series of ‘Politics and Energy’ lectures, at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
UK Civil Nuclear Energy: What Lessons?
In 2008–09, the British Academy, the Science Museum and the Mile End Group of Queen Mary, University of London have jointly sponsored a series of lectures on ‘Politics and energy’. On 6 May 2008 at the Science Museum, Professor Sir Roger Williams began the series – listing the lessons to …
How Green Politics Went Mainstream
On 6 November 2008 at the British Academy, Sir Crispin Tickell gave the second in the series of ‘Politics and Energy’ lectures, jointly sponsored by the British Academy, the Mile End Group of Queen Mary, University of London, and the Science Museum.
'The Nation Within': British India at War 1939-1947 (BAR)
Professor Christopher Bayly FBA delivered the Raleigh Lecture on History on 26 November 2003. In his analysis of India at war, Professor Bayly considered how and why it was possible for the British Raj to recover from defeats to the Japanese in Burma and the ‘Quit India’ movement of 1942. …
Lady Ridley's Hospital for Officers at 10 Carlton House Terrace
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 …
The medieval Welsh poetry associated with Owain Glyndwr
The 2010 Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture formed part of the British Academy’s ‘Medieval Week’, hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In this extract, Professor Gruffydd Aled Williams starts by describing how two medieval Welsh poets celebrated Owain Glyndwr’s less peaceful visit to Scotland.
Propaganda in the Mongol 'World History'
The 2010 Aspects of Art Lecture formed part of the British Academy’s ‘Medieval Week’, hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA discussed an extraordinary medieval manuscript held in Edinburgh University Library.
Anthropology is not ethnography (British Academy Review)
Professor Tim Ingold FBA gave the 2007 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology. In these edited extracts from his lecture, he reveals the differing views on what anthropology and ethnography are, and recalls some of the heated past debates about these differences.
After 2015: Development and its alternatives (British Academy Review)
The convenor of a British Academy Conference held in September 2014 reports on a timely discussion of the effectiveness of global development targets. Dr Clive Gabay is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London.
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