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Two Enlightenments

Professor Gertrude Himmelfarb FBA, Professor Emeritus of History in the City University of New York, delivered the 5th Elie Kedourie Lecture at the Academy on 15 May 2001. In the lecture, Profesor Himmelfarb illustrated the differences between the French and British Enlightenments by focusing on the distinctive social ethics in …

Rival jihads: Islam and the Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1918

Full text of article by Eugene Rogan posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 4, pp. 1-20.

Lived experience and the Holocaust: spaces, senses and emotions in Auschwitz

Full text of article by Nikolaus Wachsmann posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 9, pp. 27-58.

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