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Journal of the British Academy

Connecting knowledge – Deepening inquiry – Pushing boundaries

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The Journal of the British Academy is an online, open access journal, showcasing the very best research in the humanities and social sciences. It aims to deepen and connect scholarship – not only within the humanities and social sciences, but across and between them – creating a platform for innovative interdisciplinary methods, perspectives and approaches. It is published by the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.

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The Journal promotes original, stimulating, and disciplinary-diverse knowledge as a vital dimension of broader engagement with multiple audiences. It welcomes research that pushes at boundaries and is accessible to different readerships. It seeks to sustain distinctive knowledge, which is necessary to inform the political, social, cultural and global challenges of the present, to critically re-examine the past, and to shape the future.

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