Books written by British Academy

  • Contemporaries of Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1605-1675: Biographies, Illustrated by Letters and Other Documents

    PEARSON , Dr [ ? ] James . Alumni Oxonienses . Studied at Magdalen College , Oxford ; BA in February 1658/59 ; Clerk , 1659/1660 . He was appointed , in the following year , as tutor to Whitelocke's youngest sons , Diary 14 Sept.

  • A Century of British Geography

    These essays trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns.

  • A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)

    Rosow 1990 Rosselli 1988 Sadie 1980 Sadie 1989 Sadie 2000 Sadler 1981-2 Sawkins 1975 Sawkins 1981 Sawkins 1983 Sawkins ... Rosselli, John, 'The Castrati as a Professional Group and a Social Phenomenon, 1550-1850', AcM, lx/ii (May-Aug ...

  • 2000 Lectures and Memoirs

    British Broadcasting Corporation ' [ with table of premieres 1926 38 ] , ' N. A. Rimsky - Korsakoff " , pp . 239-41 . 1553-7 . 201. [ Add ] b . ' Krenek . Ernst ' ; c . ' Schönberg , Arnold ' ; d . ' Webern . Anton von ' , pp .

  • Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 120, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, II

    ... when Tom was invited by the Corporation to speak at two of its recurrent management conferences . The success of those presentations led to his being allowed to spend time at Broadcasting House and at the Television Centre ...

  • English Episcopal Acta 29: Durham 1241-1283

    This latest edition to the English Episcopal Acta series brings together for the first time edited versions of all the extant charters issued by the bishops of Durham between 1241 and 1283: Nicholas Farnham, Walter Kirkham, Robert Stichill ...

  • Emlyn Capel Stewart Wade, 1895-1978

    Emlyn Capel Stewart Wade, 1895-1978

  • The Friars' Libraries

    Part of a series devoted to British medieval library catalogues, a comprehensive and systematic edition of all extant catalogues and cognate documents relating to medieval libraries in Great Britain. This...

  • Understanding Social Change

    These essays not only describe the major changes in British society in recent years, but seek to understand and explain what is happening.

  • Dover Priory

    The library catalogue of the Benedictine priory of St Martin at Dover was compiled by the precentor, John Whytefield, in 1389. It is the most sophisticated catalogue to survive from...

  • Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 121, 2002 Lectures

    ... La mer , la mer , toujours recommencée O recompense apres une pensee Qu'un long regard sur le calme des dieux . The second line literally illustrates the preceding word recommencée by hiding it and expanding it over the entire line ...

  • English Episcopal Acta 31, Ely 1109-1197

    In contrast to Longchamp's claim in this letter , Richard of Devizes stated that Geoffrey swore that he would not enter the realm for three years , rather than while the king was on Crusade ( Richard of Devizes , Cronicon , 13–4 ...

  • English Episcopal Acta 28 Canterbury 1070-1136

    Martin Brett, Joseph Gribbin, David Michael Smith, British Academy, B. R. Kemp, Christopher Harper-Bill. 13. Bury : abbey of St Edmunds Confirmation of the ten - day indulgence granted by cardinal John and grant of a further three days ...

  • English Episcopal Acta 27, York 1189-1212

    Endorsed , s.xiii : Prima prime archiepiscopalium ( ) 12. Transcriptum cartar ' Thurstini et Rog ( eri ) archiep ( iscoporum ) et Gaufr ' electi Ebor ( acensis ) signatum sigillo Ioh ( ann ) is cardinalis in Celio Monte , ap ( osto ) ...

  • Plato's Biography of Socrates

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

  • The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century

    This is the first scholarly survey of the British constitution in the twentieth century. Indeed, it fills a very real gap in the history of Britain during the last hundred...

  • Biographical Memoirs of Fellows

    The letters by Gerald Aylmer quoted in this memoir are in the writer's possession and will eventually be deposited in ... The same volume contains three biographical essays : Christopher Hill , ' Gerald Aylmer at Balliol ' ; Gordon Leff ...

  • The Diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1605 - 1675

    The Diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke covers his whole life, from his birth in 1605, until shortly before his death in 1675. Whitelocke was a distinguished lawyer and Member of Parliament,...

  • Essex Pauper Letters, 1731-1837

    The Diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke , 1605-1675 . R. Spalding . 1990 XIV . Contemporaries of Bulstrode Whitelocke , 1605-1675 . Biographies , Illustrated by Letters and other Documents . R. Spalding . 1990 xv . The Account Book of Richard ...

  • After Alexander: Central Asia Before Islam

    This is a new study of the history, archaeology and numismatics of Central Asia, an area of great significance for our understanding of the ancient and early medieval world. This...