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The British Academy and the Shakespeare Tercentenary, 1916

A ‘From the Archive’ article.

Universities and research under the axe

In these extracts from his Presidential Address to the British Academy’s Annual General Meeting on 22 July 2010, Professor Sir Adam Roberts discusses the challenges confronting universities and other scholarly institutions as they face the imminent prospect of cuts in their funding.

Rising to the Challenge

In these extracts from his address to the Annual General Meeting on 16 July 2009, the incoming President of the British Academy, Professor Sir Adam Roberts, reveals the Academy’s plans to play a stronger role in future public debates and policy-making.

British Academy Small Research Grants: an anniversary worth celebrating

In May 1963, the British Academy’s newly established ‘Research Fund Committee’ awarded the first research grants from the Academy’s new ‘Research Fund’ – financed by a grant from government that had been negotiated a year earlier. In the 50-year history of the Academy’s small-scale research funding, nearly 15,000 awards have …

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding (BAR)

The Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1386-1795

Robert Frost holds the Burnett Fletcher Chair in History at the University of Aberdeen. He held a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship, 2009-2012. He is completing the first part of a two-volume history of the Polish-Lithuanian Union for Oxford University Press.

Eating fruit and vegetables gives your skin a golden glow

David I. Perrett is a Professor of Psychology at the University of St Andrews, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He held a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship, 2009-2012. Ross D. Whitehead is a Research Fellow in the Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit in the School of Medicine …

Transcribe Bentham

The Bentham Project is a British Academy Research Project. Members of the project team describe both an innovative research method, and what’s next in the ‘Collected Works’ pipeline.

Thinking Around the Box: The Work of the Bentham Project

The Bentham Project is one of 50 longstanding endeavours that bear the title ‘British Academy Research Project’. The Director is Professor Philip Schofield. Members of the Bentham Project at University College London describe their work to promote the study of a profoundly influential political thinker.

Presidential Address, 1999

Delivered by Sir Tony Wrigley PBA to the 97th Annual General Meeting of the Academy, on 1 July 1999.

Presidential Address, 2000

Delivered by Sir Tony Wrigley PBA to the 98th Annual General Meeting of the Academy, on 6 July 2000.

From the Archive: One hundred years ago (Election of new Fellows press release 1903)

The first election of new Fellows of the British Academy was at a General Meeting in March 1903. Illustrated is the draft press release recording this meeting.