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Penal power in America: Forms, functions and foundations

Full text of article by David Garland posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 5, pp. 1-35.

Passionate, eloquent and determined: Heroines’ tales and feminine poetics

Full text of article by Helen Cooper posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 4, pp. 221-244.

Modernist perambulations through time and space: From Enlightened walking to crawling, stalking, modelling and street-walking

Full text of article by Anne Fuchs posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 4, pp. 197-219.

Cuchulain in the General Post Office: Gaelic revival, Irish rising

Full text of article by Joep Leerssen posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 4, pp. 137-168.

Crossing the divide: promoting confidence in contact in a diverse world

Full text of article by Rhiannon N. Turner posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 8, pp. 51-9.

The piston and the pen: poetry and the Victorian industrial worker

Full text of article by Kirstie Blair posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 7, pp. 123-139.

Cousin marriage, hierarchy, and heredity: contestations over domestic and national body politics in 19th-century America

Full text of article by Susan McKinnon posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 7, pp. 61-88.

Free to think? Epistemic authority and thinking for oneself

Full text of article by Ursula Coope posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 7, pp. 1-23.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: A time to look back, and a time to look forward

Full text of article by Catherine O'Regan posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 6, pp. 259-279, posted 18 December 2018

Higher education in turbulent times: A geographical perspective

Full text of article by Meric S. Gertler posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 6, pp. 239-258, posted 7 September 2018

The tragedy of state education in England: Reluctance, compromise and muddle— a system in disarray

Full text of article by Stephen J. Ball posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 6, pp. 207-238, posted 7 September 2018

Gender equality: Core principle of modern society?

Full text of article by Anne Phillips posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 6, pp. 169-85.

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