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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. From artificial intelligence to climate change, from building prosperity to improving well-being – today’s complex challenges...
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8 episodesHow To Make The World Add Up
Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories – we see them in the papers, on social media, and we hear them used in everyday conversation - and yet...
Is COVID-19 a turning point in history? Learning from the past
The course of human history has been shaped by war, disease and natural disaster. Whether the Black Death, world wars or COVID-19, these crises have s...
Confronting COVID-19: nudge and sludge
Governments across the world are using behavioural ‘nudges’ to help slow the spread of coronavirus: wash your hands, don’t touch your face, stay at ho...
Global Perspectives: decolonial feminism
Françoise Vergès discusses the history of counter revolution against women’s liberation from the 1970s to the 2000s and the forms it concretely took (...
Thinkers for our Time: Martin Kemp FBA on Leonardo da Vinci
Professor Martin Kemp FBA reflects on Leonardo's extraordinary life and legacy, the commercial implications of his worldwide fame, and the endless con...
Thinkers for our Time: Merce Cunningham
Thinkers for our Time: Merce Cunningham by The British Academy
What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire?
What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire? by The British Academy
Identity politics: a term whose time has gone?
Author, broadcaster and editor-at-large for The Guardian Gary Younge discusses how identity politics has effectively come to mean anything you want it...