Intellectual History in a Thousand Manuscripts

Item no. 24: A letter to Isaiah Berlin from 1955.

On 9 March, colleagues and friends of J. G. A. Pocock gathered in Parliament Hall at the University of St Andrews to celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest and most influential historians of the 20th century.

Talk given by Richard Whatmore in Vienna, December 2023.

Robin Mills speaks with Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam) about his recently published book Europe against Revolution (OUP, 2023).

Robin Mills speaks with Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas about the history of basic income, from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic and political crisis to its present-day popularity in Silicon Valley.

Robin Mills speaks with Fredrik A. Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, who examine the origins of the vision of scarcity embedded in modern economics and demonstrate its historical contingency, even in the age of capitalism.

The discussion covers many of the topics of Stephen’s book, including the life of Viscount Stair, the central innovations in Stair’s Institutions of the Law of Scotland (1681), and the reception of Stair’s ideas in the 18th century.

Lasse Andersen interviews James Stafford about his recent book The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1776-1948 (CUP, 2022).

Max Skjönsberg speaks with Greg Conti about his newly published scholarly edition of Albert Venn Dicey's writings on democracy and the referendum.

Emilie Aebischer interviews Alison Stone about her recent book Women Philosophers in Nineteenth Century Britain (OUP, 2023).

In Adam Smith’s America (Princeton, 2022), Glory Liu explores how an 18th century Scottish philosopher became an icon of American capitalism.