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The Contribution of Scholarship to Good Government
Richard Wilson (Lord Wilson of Dinton), Secretary of the Cabinet from 1998 to 2002, and now Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, looks at three recent British Academy publications that contribute to current debates on good government.
History and the Pensions Crisis
In June 2005 a conference was held at the British Academy bringing together leading experts from a number of countries to discuss the current pensions crisis in the UK, and to consider the way forward. Dr Hugh Pemberton, one of the convenors of the conference, reflects on the nature of …
Through a Glass Brightly: The Magic Lantern in History
On 16-17 February 2001, the Academy hosted a two-day colloquium, ‘Lantern Projections’, which brought together over twenty invited speakers from the UK, the United States, Italy and Belgium. Its aim was to map the emerging ‘intermedial’ field of Lantern studies, involving early cinema specialists, art historians and lantern enthusiasts, and …
Darwinism, Creative Evolution, and Popular Narratives of 'Life's Splendid Drama'
2009 has been the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’. On 29-30 June, the British Academy, the Royal Society, and the American Philosophical Society held a joint conference in Cambridge to celebrate. One of the participants, Professor Peter …
The Evolutionary Anthropology of the Family
Professor Ruth Mace FBA argues that evolutionary influences on human family patterns cannot be ignored. This article is based on a paper given by Professor Mace at the June 2009 Darwin Conference, jointly organised by the British Academy, the Royal Society and the American Philosophical Society.
The Pendulum and the Pit: Changing Perceptions of the American Presidency
This is an extract from the Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American History delivered by Mr Godfrey Hodgson, on 26 October 1999 at the British Academy.
Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples (BAR)
To mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Harold Walter Bailey FBA (1899–1996) a symposium was held at Brooklands House, Cambridge, on 16–18 December 1999.The symposium was planned by Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams FBA, with the sponsorship of the British Academy and the Ancient India and Iran Trust. Dr Elizabeth …
Military Operations in Cities
Dr Alice Hills, holder of a Thank-Offering to Britain Fellowship 2001-02, describes some of the findings of her recent research project on the theory and practice of military operations on urban terrain.
'Betweenness': The Lives of Latvian Women Migrants
Professor Linda McDowell, Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, gives an account of her research into the experiences of Latvian women who came to Britain as economic migrants after the Second World War under schemes set up to import foreign labour.
Ethnic Minority Disadvantages in the Labour Market in Cross-National Perspectives
A conference was organised in November 2003 by the British Academy, the University of Oxford, and Oxford Brookes University, bringing together leading experts from a range of countries to compare the experiences of ethnic minorities. Dr Sin Yi Cheung and Professor Anthony Heath FBA describe the collaborative study that underpinned …
Anglo-Scottish Relations (BAR)
Professor Christopher Smout FBA, Historiographer Royal in Scotland, reflects on the relations between England and Scotland following the Union of the Crowns.
Not the Incas? Weaving Archaeology and Language into a Single New Prehistory
In September 2008, the British Academy sponsored a unique gathering of world specialists in the prehistory of the Andes. Dr Paul Heggarty and Dr David Beresford-Jones, the convenors and specialists respectively in the linguistics and archaeology of the region, discuss this test-case in how to converge the divergent perspectives of …
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