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British Academy Review, No. 29, January 2017

Academic books: A special issue. Includes: Richard J Evans on Europe’s century of power; Steve Smith and Catherine Merridale on writing the Russian Revolution; David Hand on how his new book measures up; Twelve months of influential and prize-winning books; So what does the future hold for the academic book?

Mr Gladstone, Carlton House Terrace and the mind of a statesman

This special lecture was delivered at the British Academy on 15 March 2011, in the new Wolfson Auditorium, to mark the Academy’s extension into 11 Carlton House Terrace.

What should the word of God sound like?

In November 2011, the British Academy hosted an event to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams FBA, considered the role that the King James Bible still plays in providing us with a sense of sacred English.

Integrity and quality in universities: accountability, excellence and success

Baroness O’Neill is Honorary Professor emeritus of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge; and past President of the British Academy.

Chambers of Commerce: from protesters to government partners

On 15 February 2012, a British Academy event, entitled ‘From Protesters to Government Partners: Chambers of Commerce 1767-2012’, discussed the history of chambers of commerce and also their role in UK public policy in the context of the Coalition Government’s Local Enterprise Partnerships. Professor Bob Bennett FBA summarises the history …

Music in Venetian art: seduction and spirituality

A new British Academy publication studies ‘The Music Room in Early Modern France and Italy’. In this edited version of one of the essays, Professor Patricia Fortini Brown discusses how the ambiguous nature of music in Venice was reflected in its art.

D.H. Lawrence's poetry and the senses

The Chatterton Lecture on Poetry given by Dr Santanu Das in December 2010 was formally published earlier this year. In the following essay, Dr Das pays particular attention to the poem ‘Bavarian Gentians’.

Civil society in Russia: Rural clubs and a 'new popular education'

The article is based on research on Non-formal Education and Civil Society that was supported under a joint agreement between the British Academy and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

British Academy Schools Language Awards 2012 (BAR)

In November 2012, the British Academy held its first Language Week, drawing together a variety of events to explore and champion the learning and use of languages in schools, universities, policy-making and public life. One of the week’s main highlights was the British Academy Schools Language Awards ceremony, where schools …

A registration crisis? History and policy

In October 2012 the British Academy published a volume of essays on ‘Registration and Recognition’, looking at how the individual has been documented in different periods of history and in very different societies across the world. In this extract from their introduction, editors Simon Szreter and Keith Breckenridge consider the …

Why is Dickens so popular?

At a British Academy event held on 8 February 2012 to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth, Professor John Carey FBA discussed the author’s enduring popularity.

Historians of science

Since its earliest years, the British Academy has published extended obituaries (memoirs) of deceased Fellows of the British Academy. Collectively the biographical memoirs of the British Academy make up a chapter in the intellectual history of Britain, and are used as a source by biographers and historians. The latest collection …

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