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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Official Website:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/

Founding Date:
1902

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Samuel Alexander
Philosopher
6-Jan-1859 13-Sep-1938 Space, Time, and Deity
Kenneth R. Andrews
Historian
26-Aug-1921 6-Jan-2012 Elizabethan Privateering
Robert Bartlett
Historian
27-Nov-1950   The Making of Europe
Isaiah Berlin
Philosopher
6-Jun-1909 5-Nov-1997 The Hedgehog and the Fox
Kenneth Bourne
Historian
17-Mar-1930 13-Dec-1992 Britain and the Balance of Power
Rachel Bowlby
Educator
29-Jan-1957   Carried Away
Melvyn Bragg
TV Personality
6-Oct-1939   The South Bank Show
Peter Brown
Historian
26-Jul-1935   The Rise of Western Christendom
P. A. Brunt
Historian
23-Jun-1917 5-Nov-2005 Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic
Alonzo Church
Mathematician
14-Jun-1903 11-Aug-1995 Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis
Michael T. Clanchy
Historian
28-Nov-1936   From Memory to Written Record
Linda Colley
Historian
13-Sep-1949   Britons: Forging the Nation
Barry Cunliffe
Archaeologist
10-Dec-1939   Iron Age Communities in Britain
Kenneth Dover
Scholar
11-Mar-1920 7-Mar-2010 Greek Homosexuality
G. R. Elton
Historian
17-Aug-1921 3-Dec-1994 The Tudor Revolution in Government
Richard J. Evans
Historian
29-Sep-1947   The Third Reich
Ernest Gellner
Philosopher
9-Dec-1925 5-Nov-1995 Words and Things
Clive W.J. Granger
Economist
4-Sep-1934 27-May-2009 Granger causality
Gustaf VI Adolf
Royalty
11-Nov-1882 15-Sep-1973 King of Sweden, 1950-73
William V. Harris
Historian
13-Sep-1938   War and Imperialism in Republican Rome
Carole Hillenbrand
Historian
1943   The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
Eric Hobsbawm
Historian
9-Jun-1917 1-Oct-2012 The Age of Revolution
Colin Jones
Historian
12-Dec-1947   Paris: Biography of a City
Tony Judt
Historian
2-Jan-1948 6-Aug-2010 Postwar
Barry J. Kemp
Archaeologist
1940   Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation
Paul Kennedy
Historian
17-Jun-1945   The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Ian Kershaw
Historian
29-Apr-1943   The Nazi Dictatorship
John Maynard Keynes
Economist
5-Jun-1883 21-Apr-1946 Father of Keynesian economics
Charles P. Kindleberger
Economist
12-Oct-1910 7-Jul-2003 The World in Depression
Peter Laslett
Historian
18-Dec-1915 8-Nov-2001 The World We Have Lost
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Historian
31-Oct-1951   Reformation: Europe's House Divided
F. W. Maitland
Historian
28-May-1850 19-Dec-1906 The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I
John McDowell
Philosopher
7-Mar-1942   Mind and World
Fergus Millar
Historian
5-Jul-1935   Rome the Greek World, and the East
Steven Mithen
Archaeologist
16-Oct-1960   After the Ice
Onora O'Neill
Philosopher
23-Aug-1941   President of the British Academy, 2005-09
Carole Pateman
Scholar
11-Dec-1940   The Disorder of Women
Arthur Pickard-Cambridge
Scholar
20-Jan-1873 7-Feb-1952 Dithyramb: Tragedy and Comedy
Christopher Pissarides
Economist
c. 1948   Job creation and destruction
J. G. A. Pocock
Historian
7-Mar-1924   The Machiavellian Moment
Richard Posner
Judge
11-Jan-1939   7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Adam Roberts
Historian
29-Aug-1940   President of the British Academy
Jacob Rothschild
Business
29-Apr-1936   RIT Capital Partners
Paul Samuelson
Economist
15-May-1915 13-Dec-2009 Theory of revealed preference
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Scholar
5-Jun-1961   From the Corn Laws to Free Trade
Quentin Skinner
Historian
26-Nov-1940   The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
P. F. Strawson
Philosopher
23-Nov-1919 13-Feb-2006 Individuals
Ronald Syme
Historian
11-Mar-1903 4-Sep-1989 The Roman Revolution
Keith Thomas
Historian
2-Jan-1933   Religion and the Decline of Magic
Richard Tuck
Educator
9-Jan-1949   Natural Rights Theories
Bernard Wasserstein
Historian
22-Jan-1948   Vanishing Diaspora
Alfred North Whitehead
Mathematician
15-Feb-1861 30-Dec-1947 Metaphysical mathematician
Bernard Williams
Philosopher
21-Sep-1929 10-Jun-2003 Leading moral philosopher
E. A. Wrigley
Historian
17-Aug-1931   Continuity, Chance and Change




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