- Hartmut Stegemann, Qumran: Founded for Scripture. The Background and Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls [Special Lecture]
- Colin Burrow, Life and Work in Shakespeare’s Poems [Chatterton Lecture on Poetry]
- Thomas N Corns, The Poetry of the Caroline Court [Warton Lecture on English Poetry]
- Sacvan Bercovitch, The Winthrop Variation: A Model of American Identity [1998 Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture]
- David Cannadine, Beyond Class? Social Structures and Social Perceptions in Modern England [Raleigh Lecture on History]
- Esther Goody, Social Intelligence and the Emergence of Roles and Rules [Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology]
- Christopher Ricks, Plagiarism [The British Academy Lecture, 1998]
- Tony Honoré, Being Responsible and Being a Victim of Circumstance [1998 Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence]
- Robert M Solow, What is Labour-Market Flexibility? What is it Good for? [Keynes Lecture in Economics]
All the lectures in this volume have been refereed. | - Birley, Eric Barff, 1906–1995, by Brian Dobson
- Burrow, Thomas, 1909–1986, by J C Wright
- Crombie, Alistair Cameron, 1915–1996, by J D North
- Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen, 1909–1996, by T G H James
- Leach, Edmund Ronald, 1910–1989, by Stanley J Tambiah
- Lloyd, Antony Charles, 1916–1994, by Richard Sorabji
- Lloyd, Seton Howard Frederick, 1902–1996, by J D Hawkins
- MacKinnon, Donald MacKenzie, 1913–1994, by Stewart Sutherland
- Muir, Kenneth Arthur, 1907–1996, by Inga-Stina Ewbank
- Piggott, Stuart, 1910–1996, by Roger Mercer
- Sollberger, Edmond, 1920–1989, by Terence C Mitchell
- Stokes, Eric Thomas, 1924–1981, by C A Bayly
- Trendall, Arthur Dale, 1909–1995, by Ian McPhee
- Wedgwood, Cicely Veronica, 1910–1997, by Austin Woolrych
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