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7 unusual facts about British Academy


Lisbet Rausing

In 2006 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy.

Moses I. Finley

Sir Moses I. Finley, CBE, FBA (May 20, 1912–June 23, 1986) was an American professor, whose prosecution by the McCarran Security Committee led to his move to England, where he became English classical scholar and eventually master of Darwin College, Cambridge.

He became a British subject in 1962 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971, and was knighted in 1979.

N. J. Williams

Neville John Williams (31 August 1924 - 29 January 1977) was Secretary of the British Academy from 1973 until his death.

Neil Ripley Ker

Neil Ripley Ker, FBA, (1908-1982) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature.

Richard Anthony Parker

In 1971, British Academy elected Parker as a corresponding fellow, the highest accolade for scholarship given in Great Britain.

Ronald Crane

One month before Ronald Crane died he was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.


Elinor Shaffer

She was elected to be a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded an Honorary doctorate by the University of Bucharest in 2013.

Helen Wallace

--Professionally known as Helen Wallace, not Lady Wallace, and thus the prefix is correctly added--> DBE, CMG, FBA (born 25 June 1946), née Rushworth, is a British expert in European Studies and, by marriage to William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, a peeress.

Ian Diamond

Sir Ian David Diamond, DL, FBA, FRSE, AcSS (born 14 March 1954) is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.

Jonathan Israel

He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992, Corresponding Fellow of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in 1994, won the American Historical Association’s Leo Gershoy Prize in 2001, and was made Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2004.

Louis Theroux: Behind Bars

The film was nominated for the best sound (factual) award for the 2008 British Academy Television Craft Awards.

Marco Sgarbi

He was Frances A. Yates Short-Term Research fellow at the Warburg Institute, research fellow at the Università di Verona, Fritz Thyssen fellow at Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, research fellow at the Accademia dei LinceiBritish Academy, and Jean-François Malle-Harvard I Tatti Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Mark Bassin

His research has also been supported by grants from the AHRC, British Academy, DAAD, NCEEER, NEH, and the Ford Foundation.

Mogens Herman Hansen

Mogens Herman Hansen FBA (b. August 20, 1940 in Frederiksberg, Denmark) is a Danish classical philologist and classical demographer who is one of the leading scholars in Athenian Democracy and the Polis.

Paul Magdalino

Magdalino is a member of several editorial boards and research committees: 'The Medieval Mediterranean' at Brill monograph series; 'Oxford Studies in Byzantium' at Oxford University Press; Committee for the British Academy project on the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire; Senior Fellows Committee at Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies; La Pomme d’or Publishing; Byzantinische Zeitschrift journal.

Richard Aaron

Between 1952 and 1953 Aaron was invited to be Visiting Professor at Yale University, In 1956, where was able to study the third draft of Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding at the Pierpont Morgan Library, which resulted in a substantial addition to the second edition of John Locke, published in 1955, a year where he was also made a Member of the British Academy and President of the Mind Association.

Richard David Barnett

Richard David Barnett CBE FBA (23 January 1909 – 29 July 1986) was the Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum.

Ronald P. Dore

He is an associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and is a fellow of the British Academy, the Japan Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ruth Abbey

Since 2003 she has managed an extensive online resource, supported by the University of Kent and the British Academy, for the works by and about Charles Taylor.


see also

Amanda Berry

Amanda Sonia Berry (born 1961), Chief Executive of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)

Julie Andreyev

BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Interactive Award (Nominee)

Sebastian Brock

He is the recipient of a number of honorary doctorates and has been awarded the Medal of Saint Ephrem the Syrian by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch and the Leverhulme prize and medal of the British Academy.