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'The Holy Land of Industrialism': rethinking the Industrial Revolution

Full text of article by Joel Mokyr posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 9, pp. 223-247.

The transnational study of Italian culture and the ghosts of empire

Full text of article by Charles Burdett posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, pp. 1-20.

Storylistening: a case study in how to include the humanities in evidence provided for public reasoning

Full text of article by Sarah Dillon and Claire Craig posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, pp. 21-28.

From ‘commodity currencies’ to COVID loans: Africa and global inequality, past and present

Full text of article by Toby Green posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, pp. 39-54.

Tracking the history of words: changing perspectives, changing research

Full text of article by Philip Durkin posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, pp. 67-91.

Facing the challenge of digital sustainability as humanities researchers

Full text of article by Joanna Tucker posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, pp. 93-120.

Thomas Chatterton: four ways of literary terra-forming

Full text of article by Nick Groom, posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, pp. 135-155.

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.

Food globalisation in prehistory: The agrarian foundations of an interconnected continent

Full text of article by Martin Jones et al. posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 4, pp. 73-87.

A heavenly aura: Confucian modes of relic veneration

Full text of article by Julia K Murray posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 2, pp. 59-99.

Dams, moats, and cities: climate and societies in late-Holocene China

Full text of article by Yijie Zhuang posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 9, pp. 295-318.

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