Freely accessible books from the British Academy

As part of our response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic across the world, the British Academy and Oxford University Press has made over 30 books freely accessible for an extended period on British Academy Scholarship Online, to help support your distance research and learning. These books cover a variety of topics, from Latin in medieval Britain to the politics of fiscal squeeze in perspective, and from coherence and diversity in music to AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa.

Please follow the links below to access any of these titles, sorted chronologically by publication date:

• Strings Attached: AIDS and the Rise of Transnational Connections in Africa by Nadine Beckmann, Alessandro Gusman, and Catrine Shroff
• The Articulation of Power in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib by Amira K. Bennison
• China–India: Pathways of Economic and Social Development by Delia Davin and Barbara Harriss-White
• Early Farmers: The View from Archaeology and Science by Alasdair Whittle and Penny Bickle
• Unequal Attainments: Ethnic educational inequalities in ten Western countries by Anthony Heath and Yaël Brinbaum
• Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalization by Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank
• When the Party’s Over: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze in Perspective by Christopher Hood, David Heald, and Rozana Himaz
• From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia by Andrew Peacock and Annabel Teh Gallop
• Insular Books: Vernacular manuscript miscellanies in late medieval Britain by Margaret Connolly and Raluca Radulescu
• Making History: Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian Cultural Politics by G.A. Bremner and Jonathan Conlin
• Illusions of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism by Richard English
• The Politics of Counsel in England and Scotland, 1286-1707 by Jacqueline Rose
• Gertrude Bell and Iraq: A life and legacy by Paul Collins and Charles Tripp
• Latin in Medieval Britain by Richard Ashdowne and Carolinne White
• How the Past was Used: Historical cultures, c. 750-2000 by Peter Lambert and Björn Weiler
• The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-first century perspectives by Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones
• Russian Music since 1917: Reappraisal and Rediscovery by Patrick Zuk and Marina Frolova-Walker
• Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context by Julie Brown, Nicholas Cook, and Stephen Cottrell
• The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century by Cheryl Misak and Huw Price
• Archives and Information in the Early Modern World by Kate Peters, Alexandra Walsham, and Liesbeth Corens
• The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity by Santanu Das and Kate McLoughlin
• Philosophy and the Historical Perspective by Marcel van Ackeren
• Legal Strategies for the Development and Protection of Communal Property by Ting Xu and Alison Clarke
• Growing up in Diverse Societies: The Integration of the Children of Immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden by Frank Kalter, Jan O. Jonsson, Frank van Tubergen, and Anthony Heath
• Governing England: English Identity and Institutions in a Changing United Kingdom by Michael Kenny, Iain McLean, and Akash Paun
• Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy: Methodological Challenges and Advances by Genevieve LeBaron
• Changing Names: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics by Robert Parker
• Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture by Jane E. Everson, Andrew Hiscock, and Stefano Jossa
• The Translation of Films, 1900-1950 by Carol O'Sullivan and Jean-François Cornu
• Sensory Substitution and Augmentation by Fiona Macpherson
• The Music Road: Coherence and Diversity in Music from the Mediterranean to India by Reinhard Strohm

For more information about Oxford University Press’s full list of freely accessible materials on offer, please explore this comprehensive list of links to our relevant resources.