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Nationalism and the History of Ideas

Professor John Breuilly summarises his Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture, delivered on 27 May 1999 at the British Academy.

Macbeth and the Third Person

An extract from the Shakespeare Lecture, delivered by Dr Adrian Poole, on 21 April 1999 at the British Academy.

Two Political Poems

Marvell’s ‘Horatian Ode’ and Yeats’ ‘No Second Troy’. An extract from the Warton Lecture on English Poetry delivered by Professor A.D. Nuttall FBA, on 13 April 1999 at the British Academy.

Wallace Stevens: Hypotheses and Contradictions (BAR)

This extract is taken from the Warton Lecture in English Poetry, delivered by Professor Helen Vendler, on 17 May 2000.

On the 'Origins' of Science (BAR)

These extracts are taken from the third annual ‘British Academy Lecture’, delivered by Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd FBA on 18 November 1999 at the British Academy. He considers below three case studies taken from the ancient world illustrating the different conditions under which scientific investigations were carried out.

From Laurel to Fig: Petrarch and the Structures of the Self (BAR)

These extracts are taken from the Italian Lecture, delivered by Professor Nicholas Mann FBA, on 9 November 1999 at the British Academy.

Plato (BAR)

The Master-Mind Lecture was delivered at the British Academy on 13 April 2000, by M.F. Burnyeat FBA. In this extract, he illustrates Plato’s power to speak across the millennia.

Aksum: An African Civilisation

Between 1993 and 1998, on behalf of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Dr David W Phillipson directed a five-year programme of field study at Aksum, the ancient Ethiopian capital. In an edited extract from his Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture, delivered at the Academy on 22 February 2000, he describes …

The Legend of the Great Game (BAR)

A persistent theme in the writings of Elie Kedourie was his mistrust of large, seemingly attractive concepts or ideas, ideas which were lightly advanced and quietly incorporated into political or historical folklore without being subject to the close and critical scrutiny which he rightly believed to be an obligation of …

New tools for new research questions and answers

Brett Greatley-Hirsch and James Baker talk to the British Academy Review about the potential of digital research in the humanities

Roger Kain: interview

Roger Kain on the history of maps, and mapping the future of the British Academy

‘Global’ Brexit Britain

Professor Ash Amin FBA explains the international vision of the British Academy in a turbulent world.

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