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A failure of faith: Herbert Grierson, Thomas Carlyle, and the British Academy 'Master Mind' Lecture of 1940
David R. Sorensen is Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. He is also one of the senior editors of the Duke-Edinburgh Edition of ‘The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle’. The Carlyle Letters project is a British Academy Research Project.
Research on childhood and play: Drawing on the Opie legacy
Jackie Marsh is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield. ‘Childhoods and Play: An Archive’ was adopted as a British Academy Research Project in 2012.
In this issue (BAR 21)
As usual, this issue contains articles derived from the British Academy’s programmes of events and publications. But the issue concentrates on the Academy’s support for academic research.
Why support the British Academy?
Since its earliest years the British Academy has been privileged to receive support in the form of legacy donations from its Fellows and friends.
The roots of Christian fundamentalism in American Protestantism
On 27 February 2013, the British Academy held a conference on ‘What is Fundamentalism – and What Threats does it Pose to Today’s World?’ The event was convened at the suggestion of James Dunn, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the University of Durham, and a Fellow of the British …
Constituting the Arab uprisings
Dr Mattia Toaldo is a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. In May 2013, a conference was held at the British Academy on ‘Constitutionalism and the Arab Uprisings: Politics and Law in a New Middle East’. The conference was jointly organised by the British School at Rome, the …
Income from work: The food-population-resource crisis in 'the short Africa'
Michael Lipton is Professor of Economics, in the Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex, and a Fellow of the British Academy. This article is based on an address given by Professor Lipton on receiving the Leontief Prize, at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, on 3 April 2012.
Future Earth: A science agenda for sustainability and human prosperity
On 21 June 2013, the British Academy and the Royal Society co-hosted a UK ‘town hall’ meeting at which researchers and a range of stakeholders were able to discover more about the new ‘Future Earth’ initiative, which is being led by the International Council for Science (ICSU).
The Grenada intervention: 30 years later
Dr Gary Williams, of the University of Essex, was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant in 2006 to research into ‘US-Grenadian relations 1979-83: revolution and intervention in the backyard’.
Ever looser Union: The future of the UK
Richard Wyn Jones is Director of the Wales Governance Centre and Professor of Welsh Politics at Cardiff University. On 31 May 2013, he participated in a conference held at the British Academy on ‘Welsh Devolution in Perspective’. It looked at the historical and social ties between Wales, the rest of …
The British Academy on Ageing
In February–April 2014, the British Academy held its first series of ‘British Academy Debates’, on the subject of Ageing. The three Debates were held in London, Sheffield and Edinburgh. This article reproduces the first part of the British Academy’s booklet on Ageing.
Gertrude Bell and Iraq: A life and legacy (BAR)
In September 2013, the British Academy and the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial) held a conference on ‘Gertrude Bell and Iraq – A Life and Legacy’. This article by Dr Paul Collins, a Council Member of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, draws …
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