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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.
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.
Roman sculpture from London and the South-East (BAR 25)
Article by Penny Coombe on the Roman sculpture from London and South-East England, which would form part of the latest British contribution to the international Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani – a definitive catalogue of the sculpture of the Roman Empire.
A 'Professor of Electoral Engineering': An election campaign in West Bengal
A new British Academy publication looks at ‘Diversity and Change in Modern India’, drawing on economic, social and political approaches. In her contribution to the volume, Dr Mukulika Banerjee provides an ethnography of an election campaign in West Bengal, based on a study of the elections won by the Left …
Mexico City's Metro (a voyage to the end of the squeeze)
Mexico City is a city of contrasts, of change and tradition, which has long captured the imagination of chroniclers and poets alike. The British Academy and the Mexican Embassy to the UK organised an event to celebrate this diversity, tracing the history of the city from its pre-Columbian origins to …
The Survey of English Place-Names
The English Place-Name Society has been in existence since 1923, and has been supported morally and financially by the British Academy for most of these 77 years. The main purpose of the Society is to conduct and to publish a national place-name survey. Professor Richard Coates, President of the English …
Academics, Academies and Public Policy: The Case of the American Health Care Debate
In the British Academy Fellows Seminar on 7 January 2010, Professor Ted Marmor FBA discussed the role that academics can play in contributing to public debate, and commended the British Academy on the recent establishment of its Policy Centre. In contrast, he provided an American perspective on the lack of …
Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator? (BAR 8)
The Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture was delivered at the Academy on 3 November 2003 by Professor Eric Foner FBA, DeWitt Clinton Professor at Columbia University. In his lecture, Professor Foner explored the attitudes toward slavery that Lincoln held for virtually his entire life, and traced how he changed under the …
Everybody Counts but Not Everybody Understands Numbers
Professor Brian Butterworth FBA delivered the annual Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society lecture on 16 November 2004. In this edited extract, he describes the unrecognised handicap of dyscalculia.
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