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The Shakespearean unscene: Sexual phantasies in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Full text of article by Lorna Hutson posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 4, pp. 169-195

Social class mobility in modern Britain: changing structure, constant process

Full text of article by John H Goldthorpe posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 4, pp. 89-111.

Time for Shakespeare: Hourglasses, sundials, clocks, and early modern theatre

Full text of article by Tiffany Stern posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 3, pp. 1-33.

‘I should want nothing more’: Edward Thomas and simplicity

Full text of article by Guy Cuthbertson posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 7, pp. 89-121.

Radical physics: science, socialism, and the paranormal at Birkbeck College in the 1970s

Full text of article by Joanna Bourke posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 7, pp. 25-59.

Karl Marx’s changing picture of the end of capitalism

Full text of article by Gareth Stedman Jones posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 6, pp. 187-206, posted 30 July 2018

Women, crime and character in the 20th century

Full text of article by Nicola Lacey posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 6, pp. 131-67.

The Scottish Enlightenment and the Matter of Troy

Full text of article by Colin Kidd posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 6, pp. 97-130.

Globalisation and wage inequality

Full text of article by Elhanan Helpman, posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 5, pp. 125-162

Stages of papal law

Full text of article by David L. D'Avray, posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 5, pp. 37-59.

The rise of 'no religion' in Britain: The emergence of a new cultural majority

Full text of article by Linda Woodhead posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 4, pp. 245-261.

Thomas Hobbes: Liberal illiberal

Full text of article by Noel Malcolm posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 4, pp. 113-136.

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