Perspectives

Through the research it funds, through the debates that it hosts, and through its various publications, the British Academy makes a significant contribution to topical policy issues.

Perspectives provides access to a selection of the material on the British Academy's website produced on particular topics - whether published articles, news items, transcripts or audio recordings of discussion meetings, or policy statements.

It complements the British Academy Review, which contains articles illustrating the wide range of scholarship promoted by the British Academy in its role as the national academy for the humanities and social sciences in the UK.

Constitutional Renewal
What is the significance of the Government's 'Constitutional Renewal' package?

Britain in the 50s
Were the 'fifties a decade of consensus or conflict in Britain?

English local democracy
What's wrong with it, and can looking back help it move forward?

Upgrading Britain's nuclear deterrent
How does the present debate about upgrading Trident relate to past decisions of British governments?

Immigrants' children in western labour markets
A detailed comparative study of how the 'second generation' fares in western economies

Toleration — past and present
In violent times, what can we learn from 17th-century thinkers who faced similar problems?