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New Labour and the British Constitution
In the last few months, the British Academy has hosted a range of events that have onsidered the state of the British constitution after 13 years with New Labour in power. Dr Andrew Blick offers some reflections on the significance – and limitations – of the constitutional changes, and of …
Constitutional Renewal
On 16 June 2008 the British Academy held a workshop to discuss the significance of the ‘Governance of Britain’ constitutional reform programme introduced by Gordon Brown shortly after becoming Prime Minister, and the associated ‘Constitutional Renewal’ package produced in March 2008. The meeting was all the more timely because Parliament’s …
The Oxford Francis Bacon, and the Materiality of Texts
Professor Graham Rees FBA is Director of ‘The Oxford Francis Bacon’ for which he has edited and translated many of Bacon’s Latin philosophical writings (volumes VI, XI, XII and XIII). Here he describes the attention that editors need to pay to the physical form in which texts survive.
Autism and the Imaginative Mind
The British Academy publication ‘Imaginative Minds’ offers an engaging and innovative take on the elusive and special human capacity of imagination. The editor, Dr Ilona Roth, has a particular interest in the complex relationship between autism and imagination. People on the autistic spectrum typically have difficulty in imagining what other …
Ben Pimlott
In this extract from one of the 16 obituaries in the latest Biographical Memoirs volume, Professor Peter Hennessy FBA discusses historian Ben Pimlott’s roles as biographer of the Queen and adviser to government.
Islam and Muslims in the UK
In March 2010, the British Academy hosted a conference on ‘Islamic Studies in Europe’. One of the speakers, Dr Tahir Abbas, analyses the place of Islam and Muslims in British society.
Toleration, Past and Present
The concept of ‘toleration’ has been the subject of two meetings organised by the British Academy. Two participants, Dr Jon Parkin and Dr Timothy Stanton, challenge our complacent assumption that increasing toleration is a historical inevitability.
The Good Friday Agreement, Ten Years On
On 5 November 2008, the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University hosted a panel discussion, in partnership with the British Academy. The panel brought together key players who had brokered the 1998 Agreement, with others who are currently involved in the long-term process of cementing peace by facilitating reconciliation. …
Editorial, British Academy Review, Summer 2017
Welcome to this Summer 2017 issue of the British Academy Review.
Moving ideas: The British School at Rome, 2009-2017
Christopher Smith reveals how the movement of people and ideas across the centuries has been studied through the work of the BSR.
The birth of Brazilian Amazonian cultures
Mark Harris looks back to the 17th century to find the origins of societies along the Amazon.
Paul Langford's polite and commercial Englishmen
This extract from Paul Slack’s extended obituary of Paul Langford (1945–2015) discusses his two books that redefined 18th-century England.
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