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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 …
A presumption against imprisonment (BAR)
On 3 July 2014, the British Academy launched a report entitled ‘A Presumption Against Imprisonment: Social Order and Social Values’. This article is taken from the report’s Foreword, written by the Rt Hon. the Lord Woolf. Harry Woolf was formerly Lord Chief Justice of England, and is an Honorary Fellow …
10 quick questions about processing speed
The third in the series of British Academy Debates on Ageing – ‘The Best Years of Our Lives? Body, Brain and Well-being’ – was held in Edinburgh. On 30 April 2014, as a satellite event, the British Academy held a small expert workshop entitled ‘Is the World Too Fast When …
The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century (BAR)
‘The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century’, edited by Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA, was first published in summer 2003. This British Academy Centenary Monograph was reissued in paperback in 2004. Dr David Butler CBE, FBA, who spoke at the original launch of the volume, notes some of the constitutional changes …
Past, Present, Proust
In an extract from the Centenary Monograph produced by the Academy’s Philosophy Section, ‘The Arguments of Time’, edited by Dr Jeremy Butterfield FBA, Professor Gregory Currie considers whether fiction can tell us anything about time. His chapter is entitled ‘A Literary Philosophy of Time?’ and here he takes a case …
Politics as a Vocation
In an edited extract from his chapter in ‘The British Study of Politics in the Twentieth Century’, Professor Brian Barry FBA considers how the study of politics in Britain became professionalized over the course of the last century. In contrast to other contributors to the volume who provide a wealth …
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