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Books that won British Academy prizes in 2016

The British Academy awards a range of prizes and medals each year. Some are for scholarly cumulative achievement over an extended period, but others recognise individual publications that have made a mark. Here are the citations for three books that were honoured by the British Academy in 2016.

Copyright and Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: a British Academy Review (BAR)

Through its series of research-related reviews, the British Academy seeks to examine issues crucial to the condition and health of its areas of interest. Professor John Kay FBA, Chairman of the British Academy’s Copyright Working Group, reports on the main findings and recommendations of the Review.

Looking back at ‘The next thirty years’

Stefan Collini revisits Lord Bryce’s Presidential Address of 1917.

Genetic research in mestizo nations

Peter Wade reveals the temptation to read too much into genetic data in Latin American countries.

Clearing a Path through the Copyright Jungle

In the last issue [No. 10, 2007], Professor John Kay FBA reported on a British Academy review of the impact that copyright has on research in the humanities and social sciences. Here he brings us up to date with an important collaboration with the Publishers Association which is designed to …

Colin Mayer: interview

Colin Mayer on teaching business, and trying to influence the future of the corporation.

The British Academy 2009-2013: reflections

In these extracts from his address to the Annual General Meeting on 18 July 2013, the outgoing President of the British Academy, Professor Sir Adam Roberts, reflects on how the Academy has made progress on the objectives that he set for it four years ago.

An outstanding investment in what really matters

In his address to the Annual General Meeting on 17 July 2014, Lord Stern of Brentford reflected on some of the achievements of the British Academy in the first year of his Presidency. This article is an edited version of that Presidential Address.

An irresistible argument

In his address to the Annual General Meeting on 16 July 2015, Lord Stern of Brentford presented the case for continued investment in the humanities and social sciences. This article is an edited version of that Presidential Address.

John Milton, 1608 to 2008 (via 1908)

A ‘From the Archive’ article.

Winston Churchill and the British Academy

Sixty years ago the British Academy elected Prime Minister Winston Churchill as an Honorary Fellow. But this was not the first time that Churchill had been considered for election to the Academy. A ‘From the Archive’ article.

Report on visit to Germany by Sir Harold Bell and Sir Charles Webster, 1947

In September 1947, the President of the British Academy, Sir Harold I. Bell, and Sir Charles K. Webster (who would succeed him as President), visited Germany in order to enquire into the state of scholarship there in the aftermath of the Second World War. On their return they produced a …

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