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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 …
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 …
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