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The 'Credit Crunch' and Trust
Professor Geoffrey Hosking FBA examines the role of trust in our financial systems, and argues that we need a fundamental rethink.
Towards Polarised Differentiation: Changing Configurations of European Integration
The last few weeks have witnessed the final steps in the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, which aims to smooth the workings of the European Union project. A year ago, the British Academy sponsored a research workshop at Cardiff University on ‘differentiated’ integration in Europe – that is, integration in …
Reassessing the seventies: the benighted decade
On 23 September 2009, the British Academy hosted a workshop to take a fresh look at the 1970s – a watershed in post-war British history. It was followed in the evening by a public panel discussion, chaired by Professor Laurie Taylor (presenter of Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’). Dr Lawrence Black …
Fifty volumes of the Sylloge of British coins
A celebration was held in March 1999 at 10 Carlton House Terrace to mark the publication of the fiftieth volume of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles: ‘Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Part I: Anglo-Saxon Coins to 1016’, by Dr V.M. Potin. Dr Mark Blackburn, General Editor, reviews the …
The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler (BAR)
Professor Nigel Thorp is Director of the Academy Research Project that has created an on-line edition of Whistler’s correspondence. Here he gives an account of a source that is important not only for the artist himself, but also for the study of European and American art in the second half …
Examining Recent Civil Society Initiatives of the World Trade Organisation
Dr Michael Mason, Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, was awarded a British Academy research grant to examine emerging opportunities within the World Trade Organisation for communication on trade-related environmental concerns with non-governmental organisations. Here, he describes some of the findings from his research.
Neolithic Beginnings in Western Asia and Beyond
Professor Steven Mithen, University of Reading, reports on recent developments in our understanding of agricultural origins in Western Asia and his work in Wadi Faynan.
A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (BAR 5)
On 11 January 2001, a reception was held at the Academy to celebrate the publication the previous month of both the latest volume of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and the proceedings of an Academy conference on ‘Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence’. Elaine Matthews, joint editor of …
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (BAR)
The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music is a joint project between Dr Margaret Bent FBA of the University of Oxford, and Professor Andrew Wathey of Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr Julia Craig-McFeely, the Project Manager, is developing the archive, database, web site and documentation for the project and …
The John Foxe Project (BAR)
Professor David Loades, Director of the Project, explains the origin and significance of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, a work of central interest to the English Reformation under Elizabeth I.
From the Foreign Secretary (BAR 2)
The Foreign Secretary, Professor Nicholas Mann FBA reflects on his first months in office.
British Schools and Institutes Overseas and Sponsored Societies (BAR 2)
Report in British Academy ‘Review’, July-December 1999. The Academy’s sponsored Institutes and Societies have continued to be active in a variety of ways over the course of recent months, including conferences, lectures, taught courses and major fieldwork projects.
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