British Academy

Overview

Works:	3,314 works in 6,327 publications in 2 languages and 79,875 library holdings
Genres:	Records and correspondence Dictionaries Reference works Personal correspondence Autobiographies Biography‡vDictionaries Periodicals History Conference papers and proceedings Biography
Roles:	Editor, Other, Publisher, his, isb, Organizer of meeting, Client, cop, Publishing director, Originator, Contributor, Redactor
Classifications:	PA2891, B

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Most widely held works about British Academy

The British Academy, 1949-1968 by Mortimer Wheeler( Book )
The British Academy: being a new-erected society for the advancement of wit and learning: with some few observations upon it by Oldmixon( )
John Dryden and a British academy by Oliver Farrar Emerson( Book )
Biographical memoirs of Fellows by British Academy( )
The British Academy; the first fifty years by Frederic G Kenyon( Book )

Biographical memoirs of Fellows IX by British Academy( Book )
Reflections on Dr. Swift's letter to the earl of Oxford, about the English tongue by Oldmixon( Book )
Annual report by British Academy( )
Reflections on Dr. Swift's letter to Harley (1712) ; and the British Academy [by] Arthur Mainwaring (1712) by Oldmixon( Book )
The Celtic inscriptions of France and Italy by John Rhys( Book )
Biographical memoirs of fellows by British Academy( Book )
Harold Temperley, 1879-1939 by G. P Gooch( Book )
A century of British orientalists, 1902-2001( Book )
The British Academy directory by British Academy( )
A handbook to the British schools and institutes abroad by British Academy( Book )
British Academy lectures 2012-13( Book )
Reflections of Dr. Swift's letter to Harley (1712), and The British Academy by Oldmixon( Book )
John Dryden and a British academy by Oliver Farrar Emerson( Book )
Reflections on Dr. Swift's letter to Harley : (1712) by Oldmixon( Book )
Cervantes in England by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly( Book )

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Most widely held works by British Academy

Letters of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens( Book )

17 editions published between 1995 and 2002 in English and held by 1,030 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This concluding volume covers the final two-and-a-half years of Dicken's life: his reading tours in America and around England, the writing of Edwin Drood, and his characteristic involvement in scores of different interests

Revised medieval Latin word-list from British and Irish sources by R. E Latham( Book )

24 editions published between 1965 and 2004 in English and Latin and held by 900 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book represents an early fruit of one of the British Academy's most prestigious research projects, the compilation of a comprehensive Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources ... Baxter and Johnson's Medieval Latin Word-List from British and Irish Sources appeared in 1934 and was reprinted five times. The distinguished lexicographer, R.E. Latham based this Revised Word-List on a re-examination of the material previously used, and supplemented it with new material from a wide range of sources -- more than doubling the number of words covered"--Jacket

Archaeology and the Dead Sea scrolls by Roland de Vaux( Book )

9 editions published between 1973 and 2004 in English and held by 899 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Oxford dictionary of national biography : in association with the British Academy : from the earliest times to the year 2000 by H. C. G Matthew( Book )

122 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 820 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Over a twelve-year period a distinguished supervisory committee from the University of Oxford, with a grant from the British Academy, has coordinated the work of 10,000 specialists worldwide to recreate one of the great English reference works. The result is the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography--a collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000

The 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe : from communism to pluralism by Kevin McDermott( )

8 editions published between 2013 and 2016 in English and held by 774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This important book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the authors reconsider such crucial themes as the broader historical significance of the 1989 events, the complex interaction between external and internal factors in the origins and outcomes of the revolutions, the impact of the 'Gorbachev phenomenon', the West and the end of the Cold War, the political and socio-economic determinants of the revolutionary processes in Poland, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, and the competing academic, cultural and ideological perceptions of the year 1989 as communism gave way to post-communist pluralism in the 1990s and beyond. Concluding that the contentious term 'revolution' is indeed apt for the momentous developments in eastern Europe in 1989, this book will be essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and specialists alike."--Publisher's description

Studies in philosophy : British Academy lectures by J. N Findlay( Book )

6 editions published in 1966 in English and held by 670 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Professor Findlay has selected and introduced ten brilliant philosophical lectures given at the British Academy during the last half century. They are the product of a remarkably creative period in the history of philosophical thought and, in general, illustrate the strong British penchant for exact, cautious and logical thinking

Proceedings of the British Academy by British Academy( )

in English and held by 659 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rationalism, empiricism, and idealism : British Academy lectures on the history of philosophy by British Academy( Book )

5 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Art and politics in Renaissance Italy : British Academy lectures by George Holmes( Book )

22 editions published between 1993 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 545 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Our modern conception of the Renaissance has been changed substantially by the scholarship of the last 50 years, and the British contribution to this research has been enormous. An essential part of this scholarship is contained within this lavishly illustrated selection of lectures delivered by distinguished historians to the British Academy. The lectures cover the period circa 1400 to 1520 and illustrate two aspects of Italy in this period, the political background to the great cultural flowering, and the art of Florence and Rome

Medieval Latin word-list from British and Irish sources by James Houston Baxter( Book )

22 editions published between 1934 and 1962 in English and Latin and held by 525 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The British constitution in the twentieth century by Vernon Bogdanor( Book )

16 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and held by 510 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The book is a product of interdisciplinary collaboration by a distinguished group of constitutional lawyers, historians and political scientists, and draws where possible on primary sources. Its evaluation of the recent constitutional reforms will be of particular interest."--Jacket

Dictionary of medieval Latin from British sources by R. E Latham( Book )

16 editions published between 1975 and 2018 in English and Latin and held by 509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (DMLBS) is the most comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin to have been produced and the first ever to focus on British Medieval Latin. Covering a particularly long period stretching from Gildas (fl. 540) to William Camden (1600), it is wholly based on original research, that is to say on the close reading of thousands of Medieval Latin texts, both literary and documentary. This has been carried out specifically for the purpose of recording their distinctive lexical characteristics, and, as far as possible, using the best available sources, whether original manuscripts or modern critical editions. It is also based on systematic searches within computer databases, including the Library of Latin Texts (LLT-A and LLT-B), where many of the texts can be found that make up the sources for the DMLBS

Studies in the philosophy of thought and action ; British Academy lectures by P. F Strawson( Book )

6 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 476 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Science and Stonehenge by Barry W Cunliffe( Book )

6 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in English and held by 453 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Campaigns in Palestine from Alexander the Great by Israel Abrahams( Book )

12 editions published between 1927 and 1980 in English and held by 452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Place of astronomy in the ancient world : a joint symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy by Royal Society (Great Britain)( Book )

16 editions published between 1972 and 1974 in English and held by 449 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Also published in the Royal Society. Philosophical transactions A, v.276, no. 1257

A thematic catalogue of the works of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726) by Lionel Sawkins( )

5 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 448 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"For 43 years (1683-1726), Lalande's music occupied a central position at the courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV, where his grands motets and instrumental suites set a style admired then and long after, both in the royal chapel and at the Paris Concert spirituel. Recent festivals at Versailles, as well as many editions, performances and recordings worldwide, underline the importance of Lalande as an undisputed master of the French Baroque. With over 3,000 music examples, details of performing requirements and of all source materials, as well as with comprehensive indexes and thematic locators, this Thematic Catalogue makes Lalande's compositions fully accessible to musicians, musicologists, and music lovers."--Jacket

Studies in the ancient history of Northern Iraq by David Oates( Book )

7 editions published between 1968 and 2005 in English and held by 401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This is a facsimile reprint of the trail-blazing book by David Oates which has been out-of-print far too long. It is primarily the report of his survey and excavation of sites in northern Iraq between 1954 and 1958. But it is at the same time a memorial to the great explorer, Sir Aurel Stein, whose pioneer field-work on the Roman frontiers in Iraq in 1938-39 had provided the initial stimulus. Apart from preliminary summaries, this work remained unpublished in the difficult years between 1939 and Stein's death in Kabul in 1943." "Subsequent examination of Stein's draft-manuscript showed that further investigation and a more leisurely assessment were demanded by the range and importance of the subject and by changing perspectives. With the aid of the Stein bequest to the British Academy, David Oates gave new substance to 'the lost traveller's dream', extending it widely into a more general account of the Mesopotamian scene from the Assyrian period in the second millennium B.C. to the struggles of Rome and Byzantium with the Parthians and Sasanians in the early centuries A.D. The book concludes with a study of little-known Hellenistic, Roman and Parthian pottery, mostly from the author's excavations."--Jacket

The arguments of time by British Academy( Book )

8 editions published between 1999 and 2006 in English and held by 379 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? These nine essays address questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology

Hexaëmeron by Robert Grosseteste( Book )

10 editions published between 1982 and 1999 in Latin and English and held by 378 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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