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A vibrant, cosmopolitan and competitive research community

The British Academy’s Chief Executive, Alun Evans, picks out some highlights of the year 2016–17.

Hermione Lee: interview

Hermione Lee talks about enthusing readers, and bad behaviour in biography.

Understanding and changing: Care in enquiry and seriousness about values

Nicholas Stern reflects on his four years as President of the British Academy.

Biographical Memoirs of British Academy Fellows

Professor Peter Marshall FBA, who has just completed a five-year stint in editing the memoirs (extended obituaries) of Fellows of the British Academy, explains their fascination, and reveals some of the highlights in the most recently published volume.

Diarmaid MacCulloch: interview

The Reverend Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt FBA discusses the purpose of studying history and how it is presented, in order to learn from it for prosperity.

Nicholas Stern: interview

Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford FBA explores the notion of ‘prosperity’ in its widest sense, far beyond its purely financial meaning.

Ian Kershaw in conversation with Diarmaid MacCulloch

On 2 July 2015, Sir Ian Kershaw FBA, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sheffield, delivered his Raleigh Lecture on History, ‘Out of the ashes: Europe’s rebirth after the Second World War, 1945-49’. A few weeks earlier, Sir Ian was interviewed for the British Academy Review by the …

Eric Hobsbawm and all that jazz

The latest annual collection of Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, published in December 2015, includes an extended obituary of Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012), written by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. Hobsbawm was one of the UK’s most renowned modern historians and left-wing public intellectuals. His influential three-volume history …

Getting ahead of the curve: What next for Scotland and the Union?

(Article) Alun Evans has been Chief Executive of the British Academy since July 2015. In his previous role, he headed the Scotland Office, the Whitehall department which made the case for Scotland to remain part of the UK in the Scottish independence referendum in September 2014. On 16 September 2015, …

The shifting landscape in higher education and research

Jonathan Matthews and Thomas Kohut, of the British Academy’s Higher Education Policy Team, explain the issues and concerns surrounding a number of recent Government initiatives affecting higher education and research in the UK.

Edward Augustus Freeman: Making history

The editors of a British Academy volume of essays about the eminent Victorian historian, Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892), were interviewed by Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt FBA, to explore why he is such an intriguing character.

Ariosto, Cervantes, and Shakespeare in 2016

Jane E Everson, Andrew Hiscock and Stefano Jossa on three writers receiving centenary celebrations this year.

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