British Academy lectures have previously been published in the Proceedings of the British Academy. Lectures are now made available in the new open access Journal of the British Academy and are also printed in an annual volume. This volume publishes 8 lectures from the 2012 and 2013 programmes, which were posted to the Journal in 2013.

Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos: emergent ethnographic subjects c. 1900 (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology) ; Edward Lear's lines of flight (Chatterton Lecture on Poetry) ; 'All the world's knowledge': Universal authors' rights (British Academy Law Lecture) ; An intelligent Scotland: Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson and the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947 (Joint BA/British Psychological Society Lecture) ; The end of Empire in India revisited (Raleigh Lecture on History) ; The appeal of fundamentalism (British Academy Lecture) ; Parts of speech: solid citizens or slippery customers? (Philological Society Lecture) ; Ronald Reagan and the re-constitution of American hegemony (Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture) ; The Greek War of Independence in a global era (Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American History) ; Between art and science: music as performance (Aspects of Art Lecture) ; Can leaders make a difference to organisational performance? (Sir John Cass's Foundation Lecture) ; The sanctuary at Keros: questions of materiality and monumentality (Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture) ; Imitations of Christ in 17th-century France: Some attendant difficulties (Lecture in Modern Languages)

Variety of academic subjects in the humanities and social sciences · Texts of lectures given by leading academics in the humanities and social sciences Edited by two leading scholars, both Fellows of the British Academy

Variety of academic subjects in the humanities and social sciences · Texts of lectures given by leading academics in the humanities and social sciences Edited by two leading scholars, both Fellows of the British Academy