British Academy Media Library

The British Academy events programme and other activities generate a range of outputs available via this website – including podcasts, transcripts, articles in the British Academy Review, and papers in the Proceedings of the British Academy.

The Media Library lists the latest additions, as well as providing other navigation routes to the material. We recommend you bookmark this page and keep checking back as it will be frequently updated.

Latest additions


Literature, Classics and Class
Performance event, 1 July 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio

Is there such a thing as European culture?
In conversation with Julia Kristeva, 24 May 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio

The Jewish History Wars
Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture, by Professor Simon Schama, 13 May 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio

‘The Reason of this Preference’: Sleeping, Flowing and Freezing in Pope’s Dunciad
Warton Lecture on English Poetry, by Dr Valerie Rumbold, 4 May 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio

‘Enter Cælia, the Fairy Queen in her Night Attire’: Shakespeare and the Fairies
Shakespeare Lecture, by Professor Michael Hattaway, 22 April 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio; presentation slides

Mending a broken financial system: What are the real lessons from the 1930s?
British Academy Forum, 16 April 2010
Outputs available: presentation slides

Unequal Britain: 60 years of equalities policy
Panel discussion, 25 March 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio

Who Speaks for Islam?
Lecture, by Dr Dalia Mogahed, 24 March 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio

Towards A Better Tomorrow? The Crucial Role of Social Science
Panel discussion, 16 March 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio

Proposals for a British Bill of Rights
British Academy/AHRC Forum, 8 March 2010
Outputs available: transcript

Writing National History
Panel discussion, 4 March 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio

The Fiscal Challenge
British Academy Forum, 4 March 2010
Outputs available: presentation slides; BAR article (March 2010)

Robbing our own future: Intergenerational justice under the microscope
Panel discussion, 2 March 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio

The Mixed Constitution: Monarchical and Aristocratic Aspects of Modern Democracy
British Academy Lecture, by Dr Mogens Hansen FBA, 25 February 2010
Outputs available: streamed audio

The economics of undergraduate tuition fees and maintenance support
British Academy Forum, 2 February 2010
Outputs available: podcasts, and accompanying slides

Addiction research: the next steps
Panel discussion, 21 January 2010
Outputs available: podcasts

Religious-Secular Distinctions
Conference 14 January – 16 January 2010
Podcasts of the conference are available from the project website.

The Fate of Freedom
Panel discussion, 12 January 2010
Outputs available: podcasts


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