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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.

Make purpose operational

David Rodin discusses why the setting of a ‘purpose’ for a corporation is so important

Rana Mitter: interview

Rana Mitter on understanding China – past, present and future

Whose business is prosperity?

Henrietta L. Moore argues that business needs to deliver sustainable prosperity for people and planet

Averting corporate crises

Colin Mayer issues a call for reform

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