The British Academy aims to publish a regular account of its activities by means of its new biannual Review. This is only the second issue of the Review, and covers events and activities that took place during the first part of the academic year, from July to December 1999.
You may download the whole issue, or click on the links below for individual articles.
About the British Academy
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS
President’s Notes, Sir Tony Wrigley FBA
Recent Honours
THE PREMISES
The S. T. Lee Library
Pictures, Portraits and Decoration
LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
Report
The Pendulum and the Pit: Changing Perceptions of the American Presidency, Mr Godfrey Hodgson
Thomas Carlyle and Oliver Cromwell, Professor Blair Worden FBA
From Laurel to Fig: Petrarch and the Structures of the Self, Professor Nicholas Mann FBA
On the ‘Origins’ of Science, Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd FBA
Computers, Language and Speech, Professor Karen Spärck Jones FBA, Professor Gerald Gazdar FBA and Professor Roger Needham FRS
Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples, Dr Elizabeth Tucker
ACADEMY RESEARCH PROJECTS
The Survey of English Place-Names, Professor Richard Coates
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Professor Rosemary Cramp
PUBLICATIONS
Report
Politics as a Vocation, Professor Brian Barry FBA
Past, Present, Proust, Professor Gregory Currie
INTERNATIONAL
From the Foreign Secretary, Professor Nicholas Mann FBA
Overseas Policy
British Schools and Institutes Overseas and Sponsored Societies
RESEARCH AWARDS
Report
New Urtext Edition: Beethoven Symphonies 1–9, Jonathan Del Mar
From the Archive
One hundred years ago ... [the documents published in this article were reprinted in A Documentary Account of the Foundation of the British Academy pp. 1-3]
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