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Individual electoral registration and the future of representative democracy
In December 2011, a British Academy Forum discussed the government’s plans to introduce Individual Electoral Registration in the UK, and to feed in comments and concerns ahead of the publication of a Bill in early 2012. The British Academy Forum was attended by the Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform, …
Two Decades of Military Interventions: Questions of Law, Morality, and Effectiveness
In the past two decades, the UK has been involved, along with other countries, in many military interventions. There have also been cases in which states have failed to intervene. These actions, and failures to act, have raised a range of questions. In July 2009, a British Academy Forum explored …
Scuffles and skirmishes in interwar French politics
Chris Millington explores a violent French subculture in the 1920s and 1930s.
Language as a reflection of society: Examples from Palestinian Arabic
Uri Horesh explains how social forces change language.
Corpus of Medieval Stained Glass
Stained glass is a major form of medieval art, and provides the most immediately attractive aspect of many monuments. The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi project is publishing a series of comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogues of medieval window glass. Professor C.M. Kauffmann FBA, the Chairman of the Academy’s CVMA Committee traces …
The St William Window, York Minster
The medieval stained glass of York Minster constitutes the largest single collection in England. The wide range of iconographical content and artistic excellence gives it outstanding importance in the study of the medieval world. The next stage in Tom French’s majestic treatment of York Minster’s glass, covering the vast and …
The survival of stained glass in Sefton, Lancashire
The two most recent catalogues in the British Academy’s series ‘Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi’ (‘Corpus of Medieval Window glass’) cover the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire. Their author, Dr Penny Hebgin-Barnes, explains how glazing with traditional religious themes survived the Reformation in north-west England.
The stained glass of Merton College, Oxford (BAR)
The British Academy’s sumptuous two-part catalogue of ‘The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford’ was launched at a reception in the college on 19 April 2013. It is the latest in the British Academy’s Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Catalogue of Medieval Window Glass) series. The catalogue’s author, Dr Tim …
Restorative Justice on Trial
At the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium on 22 April 2009, Dr Alice Forbess contributed to a discussion on how scholarship can offer perspectives on ‘global interactions’. Here she describes how a failure to understand local culture has complicated a well-intentioned initiative aimed at fostering reconciliation in Kosovo.
The portrayal of the graduate labour market in the media
Dr Gerbrand Tholen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. His monograph ‘The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market: Media, Policy and Political Discourses in the UK’ was published in September 2014.
The Bordeaux-Dublin letters project
In September 2013, the British Academy published an edition of ‘The Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad’. Here one of the volume editors describes this remarkable cache of documents and the project that has brought them to life.
The Medieval Stained Glass of Wells Cathedral (BAR)
Wells Cathedral contains one of the most substantial collections of medieval stained glass in England. In 2004 the British Academy published, in a handsome two-volume set, the first fully illustrated study of this exceptional glass. It forms the next part of the British contribution to the international Corpus Vitrearum Medii …
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