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Islam, Trade and Politics across the Indian Ocean
In 2008, the British Academy adopted a three-year collaborative project to look at how Southeast Asia had long been connected to the wider world across the Indian Ocean – in particular, to the Middle East through the faith of Islam. Dr İsmail Hakkı Kadı, Dr Annabel Teh Gallop and Dr …
Under the microscope: New discoveries in British Renaissance art
Tarnya Cooper, Chief Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, and Charlotte Bolland, Project Curator for ‘Making Art in Tudor Britain’, write about the new British Academy publication, ‘Painting in Britain 1500-1630: Production, Influences and Patronage’, edited by T. Cooper, A. Burnstock, M. Howard & E. Town.
Urban challenges: Toward real and lasting social innovation
On 31 October 2014, in celebration of World Cities Day 2014, the British Academy held a seminar on ‘Social Innovation and Creative Responses to Global Urban Challenges’, which highlighted the role and importance of social innovation in contemporary urban change and ‘smart’ liveable city spaces. One of the speakers, Adam …
The deep past as a social asset in Jordan
On 18 November 2014, the British Academy hosted a showcase event that explored ‘The Social and Economic Benefits of Cultural Heritage’. The evening featured presentations by some of the British Academy-sponsored overseas institutes. This article is based on the presentation by Professor Bill Finlayson, Director of the Council for British …
President's Notes (BAR 4)
Notes by Sir Tony Wrigley, President of the British Academy, for the July-December 2000 issue of the [British Academy] Review.
President's Notes (BAR 2)
Notes by Sir Tony Wrigley, President of the British Academy, for the July-December 1999 issue of the [British Academy] Review.
Graduate Studies Review (BAR)
Earlier this year (2000), the Council of the Academy decided to instigate an enquiry into graduate studies in the UK.
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (BAR)
An international colloquium held at the Academy at the end of September 2000 commemorated a remarkable academic enterprise lasting over fifty years, and recognised over thirty years of direct Academy support. Professor Averil Cameron FBA, Chairman of the PBE Project Committee, reflects on the past and recent achievements of prosopographical …
Turkey and the West: Whatever went wrong?
David Logan offers an explanation of a complicated and evolving relationship
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