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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.
Letters of Charles Dickens (BAR)
The work of publishing the complete letters of Charles Dickens started under the general editorship of Humphry House, assisted by his wife Madeline House, in the 1950s. The first of 12 projected volumes appeared in 1965, and the final collection of letters covering the period 1867–1870 is on course for …
British Town Maps, 1470-1895
A catalogue and cartographical analysis. The study of the urban cartography of Great Britain forms part of a long-term research programme, based at Exeter University Geography Department, to record and analyse the pre-Ordnance Survey, large-scale (i.e. highly detailed) maps of the nation. The first two parts of the programme concerned …
Romano-British Writing Tablets (BAR)
Excavations at Vindolanda and Carlisle, Roman military posts to the south of Hadrian’s Wall, have yielded a remarkable collection of Roman writing-tablets, both ink writing-tablets and wooden stilus tablets. Based at the Centre for the Study for Ancient Documents in Oxford, a major interdisciplinary project on Romano-British Writing Tablets is …
Punching Our Weight: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Public Policy Making (BAR)
In September 2008 the British Academy published the latest in its series of reports which seek to inform public debate on topics of current interest. The report, ‘Punching our Weight: the humanities and social sciences in public policy making’, addresses the question of how policy makers can maximise the untapped …
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