British Academy Lectures 2014-15 [Paperback]

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. But they will also be printed in an annual volume. This volume publishes lectures from the 2014 and 2015 programmes, which were posted to the Journal in 2015.This volume publishes texts from the British Academy's 2014 and 2015 lecture programmes, which were posted to the online Journal of the British Academy in 2015.

The subjects covered include: Europe's rebuilding after the Second World War by Ian Kershaw; Scotland's emergence as a nation by Dauvit Broun; poverty and statistics by Ruth Lister; time-keeping in Shakespeare's plays by Tiffany Stern; the novel as therapy by Patricia Waugh.

The editors are Professors Janet Carsten and Simon Frith, who are both Fellows of the British Academy. The authors are all recognised experts in their fields within the humanities and social sciences and the texts published here have been rigorously peer-reviewed.Time for Shakespeare: Hourglasses, sundials, clocks, and early modern theatre,Tiffany SternThe novel as therapy: Ministrations of voice in an age of risk,Patricia WaughBritain and the beginning of Scotland,Dauvit BrounRivers of Blood: Illustrating violence and virtue in Russia's Early modern empire,Valerie A. Kivelson'To count for nothing': Poverty beyond the statistics,Ruth ListerOut of the ashes: Europe's rebirth after the Second World War,Ian KershawReinventing the corporation,Colin MayerLectures in the British Academy's 2014 - 2015 programme seriesJanet Carstenis Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Edinburgh.

Simon Frithis Tovey Professor of Music at University of Edinburgh.