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Jonathan Bate: interview

Professor Jonathan Bate FBA discusses Shakespeare being a 'living, changing reference point' for us, even today as well as why his work is important for understanding our own culture.

Hazel Genn: interview

Dame Hazel Genn FBA questions the law and how it supports social order, the wellbeing of the nation and economic development.

Peter Hennessy: interview

Lord Peter Hennessy of Nympsfield FBA explores the idea of the UK as a healthy, open democracy through the study of history.

Anthony Heath: interview

Professor Anthony Heath FBA speaks on the challenges of inequality and why sociology is a vital discipline.

Mary Beard: interview

Professor Mary Beard FBA weighs in on the continued study of the ancient world as a dynamic and every-changing research area.

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, …

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 …

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