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British Academy Centenary Monographs (BAR)
The British Academy is celebrating its Centenary in 2002. As part of the programme of events surrounding the Centenary, the Academy is publishing a series of major monographs to demonstrate the vitality of British scholarship at the start of a new millennium. The Academy’s Publications Secretary, Professor Fergus Millar FBA, …
The Society for Libyan Studies (BAR)
Professor David Mattingly, Chairman of the Society, describes some of its activities and achievements in recent months.
The 'other' in Italy
In June 2010, the British School at Rome held a conference on ‘Language, space and otherness in Italy since 1861’. The conference organiser, Professor David Forgacs, explains how defining ‘the other’ has helped shape the Italian identity.
Personifications of Old Age in medieval poetry: Charles d'Orléans
In his Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, Professor Ad Putter explored the personifications of Old Age in the poetry of Charles d’Orléans and William Langland. In this edited extract, he discusses the portrayal of Old Age as an opponent in a tennis match.
British Academy President's Medal (BAR 17)
The British Academy President’s Medal was unveiled for the first time at the Academy’s annual awards ceremony on 25 November 2010.
British Academy President's Medal (BAR 19)
The British Academy held its annual awards ceremony on 6 October 2011. Recipients honoured on the night included the three winners of the British Academy President’s Medal in 2011.
Free will and modern science (BAR)
The British Academy has just published a volume of papers, ‘Free Will and Modern Science’, illustrating the present state of the debate about whether humans have free will. The volume’s editor, Professor Richard Swinburne FBA, discusses some of the issues.
The future of social sciences and humanities in Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 will be the EU’s new programme for research and innovation running from 2014 to 2020, bringing together all EU research and innovation funding under a common strategic framework, with a proposed budget of 80 million Euro. At an event held at the British Academy on 10 November 2011, …
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Why Should We Care? (BAR)
The British Academy’s Director of External Relations, Tim Brassell, reports how the Academy has been corralling evidence of the public value of the humanities and social sciences.
Foreword (BAR 10)
One of the British Academy’s primary concerns is to communicate the value and significance of work done by scholars in the humanities and social sciences. This latest issue of the ‘British Academy Review’ is an important contribution, highlighting a range of research undertaken under the auspices of the Academy. The …
'The Age of Ivory': The Nimrud Project
The British School of Archaeology in Iraq has published five volumes in the ‘Ivories from Nimrud’ series, together with a scanned archive of these ivories. Two more volumes are in preparation, as is a computer database. Dr Georgina Herrmann FBA, Director of the Project, recounts some of the history of …
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