History
The Academy’s origins lie in the formation of a representative body for the social science learned societies in the early 1980s. From 1999 to 2007 it was called the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences before changing to its current name. It was created because social scientists wanted their own dedicated Academy to speak for social science.
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