How 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...
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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 TheBritishAcademy
What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire?
What does ‘TubeCrush’ reveal about modern desire? by TheBritishAcademy
Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture - Scythian elite burial mounds in the Eurasian steppe
Speaker: Professor Dr Hermann Parzinger FBA, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Chaired by: Professor Graeme Barker CBE FBA, University of Cambridg...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: A moment both to look back and to look forward
On 10 December 2018, it was seventy years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. The Univ...
The McWages project: Comparing real wages across countries and time
Real wages are a measure of the value of an hour of work measured in goods. Comparisons across countries are a natural measure of worker productivity ...