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Persian language use and maintenance in New Zealand’s Iranian diaspora

Khadij Gharibi examines immigrant parents’ beliefs and practices in passing on their heritage language to their children.

Literature’s lasting impression

John Gordon investigates what makes shared reading so powerful.

Working at home: The key to gender equality?

Helen McCarthy puts home-working in its historical perspective.

An Eastern Mediterranean region like never before

Dr Neophytos Loizides is Reader in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent. He was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2014.

Battling the gods

Tim Whitmarsh became A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge in October 2014. He held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2012.

Digital communication technologies and the Occupy movement

Dr Anastasia Kavada is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Media, Arts & Design, at the University of Westminster. She was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2013.

Dogged by history: Why Israel’s powerful labour federation was rejected by the 2011 social protest movement

Dr Jonathan Preminger completed his doctoral research into labour relations in Israel under the supervision of Professor Uri Ram at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is now a British Academy Newton International Fellow at Cardiff University, where he is continuing his research into the political economy of Israel, focusing …

Fish ’n’ ships: a story about food and holistic outreach

Kristine Korzow Richter tells us all what we can learn from the fish we have eaten.

The stone sculptures of Anglo-Saxon England

The publication of the ‘Cheshire and Lancashire’ volume of the British Academy’s ‘Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture’ brings this important series closer to completion. The Corpus has significantly increased the number of known Anglo-Saxon monuments. The General Editor, Professor Rosemary Cramp FBA, explains how the Corpus volumes have encouraged debate …

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (BAR 2)

A celebration was held on 14 July 1999 to mark the publication of the fifth volume in the series under the General Editorship of Professor Rosemary Cramp, who here describes the launch party and the new publication.

‘Aspects of Art’: The lecture series

Dawn Adès is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, and a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1995, she delivered the Aspects of Art Lecture on ‘Marcel Duchamp and the Paradox of Modernity’.

Computers, Language and Speech

A joint Royal Society/British Academy discussion meeting took place on 22–23 September 1999, organized by Professor Karen Spärck Jones FBA, Professor Gerald Gazdar FBA and Professor Roger Needham FRS, who report on the event.

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