Directory of Subject Associations and Learned Societies
in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Welcome to the British Academy's Directory of Subject Associations and Learned Societies based in the UK.
If you know which organisation you are looking for, please use the alphabetical listing below. If you want to browse the Directory, please use the disciplinary links in the box on the right.
Alphabetical Listing
11 Dartmouth Street Telephone: 020 7227 4900 Email: info@fabians.org.uk | The Fabian Society has played a central role for more than a century in the development of left of centre political ideas and public policy. Through its publications, seminars and conferences, the society provides an arena for open-minded public debate. |
Federal Trust for Education and Research 31 Jewry Street Telephone: 020 7320 3045 Email: info@fedtrust.co.uk | The Federal Trust is a think tank that studies the interactions between regional, national, European, and global levels of government. Founded in 1945, it has long made a powerful contribution to the study of federalism and federal systems. It has always had a particular interest in the European Union and Britain's place in it. |
c/o The Warburg Institute Telephone: 020 7862 8564 | The Folklore Society (FLS) is a learned society devoted to the study of traditional culture in all its forms. It was founded in London in 1878 and was one of the first organisations established in the world for the study of folklore. The Society's aims are to foster research and the documentation of folklore worldwide, and to make the results of such study available to all. |
Bryntirion Mawr Telephone: 01938 811192 Email: john.olsson1@googlemail.com | The Forensic Linguistics Society was formed in 2007 for the advancement of knowledge and practice in the field of linguistic, phonetic, acoustic and interpreting and translation evidence. |
Canonbury Tower Email: info@baconsocietyinc.org | The Francis Bacon Society is a unique literary association with more than a century's experience of interdisciplinary Renaissance studies. The Society is best known for its championing of the Shakespeare authorship question, and this remains of great interest to its members. |
Brian Hawkins | The Society was founded in 1903. It publishes the Journal of the Friends Historical Society and also organises conferences and talks. |
Dr. Brian Austen Telephone: 01444 413845 | The Furniture History Society (FHS) was founded in 1964 to study furniture of all periods, places and kinds, to increase knowledge and appreciation of it, and to assist in the preservation of furniture and its records. |