The British Academy welcomes new Fellows for 2015
16 July 2015Seven Cambridge academics have been elected to the fellowship of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding research.
Seven Cambridge academics have been elected to the fellowship of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding research.
Interdisciplinary research has to be the answer when it comes to understanding the Victorians, writes Professor Simon Goldhill, one of the researchers involved in a £1.2 million project on Victorian Britain that is reaching the end of its five-year programme.
Modern Britain was invented sometime between 1830 and 1900. It's not just a question of industrialization, compulsory education, the right to vote (at least for men) or the growth of towns, important as all those particular processes were.