- G E R Lloyd, On the ‘Origins’ of Science [British Academy Lecture] (summary)
- Nicholas Mann, From Laurel to Fig: Petrarch and the Structures of the Self [Italian Lecture]
- Craig Clunas, Artist and Subject in Ming Dynasty China [Aspects of Art Lecture]
- Adrian Poole, Macbeth and the Third Person [Shakespeare Lecture] (summary)
- Derick S Thomson, Scottish Gaelic Traditional Songs from the 16th to the 18th Century [Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture]
- A D Nuttall, Two Political Poems: Marvell’s ‘Horatian Ode’ and Yeats’s ‘No Second Troy’ [Warton Lecture on English Poetry]
- Blair Worden, Thomas Carlyle and Oliver Cromwell [Raleigh Lecture on History]
- Josephine M Guy, ‘Trafficking with Merchants for His Soul’: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Among the Aesthetes [Chatterton Lecture on Poetry] (summary)
- John Breuilly, Nationalism and the History of Ideas [Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture] (summary)
- Alan S Milward, Keynes, Keynesianism, and the International Economy [Keynes Lecture in Economics, with discussion] (summary)
- Godfrey Hodgson, The Pendulum and the Pit: Splendours and Miseries of the New Presidency [Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture]
All the lectures in this volume have been refereed. | - Charles Fraser Beckingham, 1914–1998, by Edward Ullendorff
- Robert Browning, 1914–1997, by Averil Cameron
- Hugo Herbert Buchthal, 1909–1996, by John Lowden
- Alexander Kirkland Cairncross, 1911–1998, by Thomas Wilson & Bryan Hopkin
- Ian Ralph Christie, 1919–1998, by J H Burns
- Charles Reginald Dodwell, 1922–1994, by George Zarnecki
- John Christopher Roderick Dow, 1916–1998, by Andrew Britton
- Charles James Frank Dowsett, 1924–1998, by Robert W Thomson
- Basil Gray, 1904–1989, by Ralph Pinder-Wilson
- Cecil Grayson, 1920–1998, by J R Woodhouse
- James Edward Meade, 1907–1995, by A B Atkinson & Martin Weale
- Herbert George Nicholas, 1911–1998, by Penry Williams
- Sidney Pollard, 1925–1998, by Colin Holmes
- Alfred Leslie Rowse, 1903–1997, by John McManners
- Charles Henry Wilson, 1914–1991, by Peter Mathias
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