Kirjahaku

A collection of Lectures delivered during the year and Memoirs of deceased Fellows.

Volume 101 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 12 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy. (List of contents available if required.)

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life. The Fellows of the British Academy who are remembered in this volume include: Charles Kingsley Barrett, D.W. Bowett, Mark Blaug, A.D. Deyermond, Jonathon Driver, J.P.W. Ehrman, Peter Fraser, Norman Hampson, Ann (Nancy) Lambton, John McManners, Basil George Mitchell, Ralegh Radford, Edward Ullendorff. Their scholarship ranged over the humanities and social science disciplines, including subjects as diverse as: Semitic studies, Persian studies, French history, economics, archaeology, philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life. The Fellows of the British Academy who are remembered in this volume are: Kenneth Andrews, Anthony Blunt, Marjorie Chibnall, Stanley Cohen, Patrick Collinson, Barrie Dobson, John Ehrman, Richard Ellmann, Christopher Evans, Philip Ford, John Hajnal, Emrys Jones, Martyn Jope, Ian Little, Alan S. Milward, Robin Nisbet, Jack Pole, Graham Reynolds, Tom Torrance, Reg Ward. Their scholarship ranged over the humanities and social science disciplines, including subjects as diverse as: medieval history, statistics, theology, French literature, sociology, art history and archaeology.

Lectures: M. Hart: The SERC Experiment in Science-Based Archaeology; M. Woods: Plato's Division of the Soul; Lord Carver: Strategy in the Twentieth Century; C. J. Becker: Farms and Villages in Denmark from the Late Bronze Age to the Viking Period; E. M. Jope: Celtic Art: Expressiveness and Communication; S. Wells: Tales from Shakespeare; C. Peacocke: Understanding Logical Constants: A Realist's Account; I. Fenlon: The Arts of Celebration in Renaissance Venice; G. D. N. Worswick: Industrial Change and Unemployment; D. R. Karlin: Whitman: The Civil War Poems; The Lord MacKay of Clashfern: Can Judges Change the Law?; D. Dilks: 'We Must Hope for the Best and Prepare for the Worst': the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and Hitler's Germany, 1937-39; D. Attridge: Poetry Unbound? Observations on Free Verse. Memoirs: Richard Ithamar Aaron (1901-1987); Denis Midgley Arnold (1926-1986); Sydney George Checkland (1916-1986); Christopher Robert Cheney (1906-1987); Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973); Richard Meredith Jackson (1903-1986); Lilian Hamilton Jeffrey (1915-1986); Nicholas Kaldor (1908-1986); Thomas Parry (1904-1985); Lionel Charles Robbins (1898-1984); George Hugh Nicholas Seton-Watson (1916-1984); Jean Joseph Seznec (1905-1983); Robert Shackleton (1919-1986); Eric Gardner Turner (1911-1983).

Volume 105 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 11 British Academy lectures and 15 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.