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Lewis Binford was the most influential archaeologist of the last century. The subject that he entered as a brash young graduate student in the late 1950s bore little relation to the one he left on his death in 2011. This trans-formation can in large measure be attributed to his passion and pursuit of the remote past.
In 2014 he co-curated the exhibition Ming: 50 Years that Changed China at the British Museum. He is a Fellow of the Academia Europaea and an Honorary Research Fellow of the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou.
Through the Global Innovation Fellowships, researchers in the SHAPE community will be supported to create new and deeper links beyond academia, so enabling knowledge mobilisation and translation, as well as individual skills development.
UK Fellow. Michael Lipton D Litt (1982), CMG (2003), FBA (2006), has worked on economics of agriculture, development, farm technology and employment, rural risk, land, rural-urban relations, nutrition and poverty reduction.
Fellows of the British Academy. Professor Gordon Campbell FBA. Gordon Campbell is Fellow in Renaissance Studies at University of Leicester, where he has worked since 1979. From 2011 to 2017 he served as lead historian for the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.
The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. We mobilise these disciplines to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Philip Allott is Professor Emeritus of International Public Law at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He was a Legal Adviser in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1960-1973). Legal Adviser, British Military Government, Berlin (1965-68).
The close-up shots of Bichitr’s painting in the BBC episode reveal a breath-taking level of skill. Bichitr, detail of Ottoman Sultan and James I of England, Jahangir preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, c. 1615-18; 25.3 x 18.1cm. Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Deborah Howard is Professor Emerita of Architectural History in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art in the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of St John's College.
British India against a possible invasion from the North West. The origin of the academic use of the term may be traced to a Raleigh Lecture given to the British Academy on 10 November 1926 by Professor H. W. C. Davis, entitled ‘The Great Game in Asia (1800–1844)’, which was an account of the events leading up the first Anglo-Afghan war ...