The British Academy Lectures

This lecture series was established to mark the Academy's move to new headquarters in Carlton House Terrace in 1998. The lecture is intended to promote appreciation of the Academy's fields of scholarship, in particular on matters of topical debate. The lecture was first delivered in 1997.

THE BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURES (2002 onwards)
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2012  Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy, by Derek Gregory

2011  Language diversity, endangerment, and public awareness, by David Crystal

2010  The Mixed Constitution: Monarchical and Aristocratic Aspects of Modern Democracy, by Mogens Hansen

2009  Surrealism and its Legacies in Latin America, by Dawn Adès

2008  A Genealogy of the Modern State, by Quentin Skinner

2007  The Devil in the Holy Water: Political Libel in Eighteenth-Century France, by Robert Darnton

2006  Kinds of People: Moving Targets, by Ian Hacking

2005  Becoming Human: the Archaeological Challenge, by Colin Renfrew

2004  What Fates Impose: Facing Up to Uncertainty, by Mervyn King

2003  Revenants and Migrants: Hardy, Butler, Woolf and Sebald, by Gillian Beer

2002  The Quest for the Industrial Revolution, by E A Wrigley

2001  The Life of Learning, by Keith Thomas