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Conor Gearty: interview

Professor Conor Gearty FBA discusses what academics can bring to the judiciary and the resource they can be for policy-makers and politicians interested in reason.

Interview: Alun Evans

Interview with the new Chief Executive of the British Academy.

Chris Wickham: interview

This is the latest in a series of interviews with Fellows of the British Academy, showing leading humanities and social sciences academics at work.

Helen Wallace: interview

This is the latest in a series of interviews with Fellows of the British Academy, showing leading humanities and social sciences academics at work. Dame Helen Wallace was previously Professor in the European Institute at the London School of Economics. Since 2011 she has been the British Academy’s Foreign Secretary, …

Measuring sticks

David Hand explains to the British Academy Review how measurement touches on almost every aspect of the modern world

On the trail of Lenin

Catherine Merridale, author of ‘Lenin on the Train’, describes how she re-enacted his momentous journey of 1917

A long look at the Russian Revolution

Steve Smith talks to the British Academy Review about his new book, ‘Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890–1928’

Lessons for extraordinary times

A guide to good listening from the British Academy.

The immediacy of a remote past: The afterlife of Widukind in the Third Reich

Dr Peter Lambert and Professor Björn Weiler – both of the Department of History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth University – were joint organisers of the British Academy Conference on ‘Uses of the Past in Past Societies: A Global Perspective’, held at the British Academy on 11-12 June 2013. The …

The making of modern slavery: Whose interests are served by the new abolitionism?

Julia O’Connell Davidson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, was one of the convenors of a British Academy Conference on ‘Slaveries Old and New: The Meaning of Freedom’, held on 27-28 March 2014.

How terrorist groups 'learn': Innovation and adaptation in political violence

Dr Andrew Mumford is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, at the University of Nottingham. He was the convenor of a British Academy Conference held in June 2015, which considered how new approaches to the study of terrorism reveal the processes and outcomes of terrorist ‘learning’.

The Race Relations Act @ 50 conference: Where were you?

A British Academy Conference on ‘The Race Relations Act @ 50’ was held on 9-10 July 2015. The conference was convened by Dr Iyiola Solanke of the University of Leeds and Mr Patrick Maddams of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

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