This volume publishes texts from the British Academy's 2014 and 2015 lecture programmes, which were posted to the online Journal of the British Academy in 2015.
The subjects covered include: Europe's rebuilding after the Second World War by Ian Kershaw; Scotland's emergence as a nation by Dauvit Broun; poverty and statistics by Ruth Lister; time-keeping in Shakespeare's plays by Tiffany Stern; the novel as therapy by Patricia Waugh.
The editors are Professors Janet Carsten and Simon Frith, who are both Fellows of the British Academy. The authors are all recognised experts in their...

This volume publishes lectures from the 2015 and 2016 programmes, which were posted to the Journal in 2016.
The subjects covered include: Islam and the Great War in the Middle East, economic impossibilities for our grandchildren, social class mobility, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, -no religion- as the new religion, Shakespeare, feminine poetics.

For over 100 years, the British Academy's public lectures have communicated the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to both specialists and general audiences. This volume publishes lectures from the 2016 and 2017 programmes. The lectures are also made available in the open access Journal of the British Academy.