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The British Academy is the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
's national academy
National academy

A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, most frequently in the sciences but also the humanities....
 for the humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
 and the social sciences. It was established by Royal Charter
Royal Charter

A royal charter is a charter granted by a Monarch to create institutions or other forms of incorporated bodies . In the United Kingdom legal tradition a royal charter is in the form of letters patent....
 in 1902, and is a fellowship of more than 800 scholars. The Academy is self-governing and independent.

As of June 2007, over 90% of the funds that the Academy administers are received as a grant from the Office of Science and Innovation (OSI), part of the UK's Department of Universities, Innovation and Skills.

The Academy states its objectives as follows:



tion as a Fellow of the British Academy recognises high scholarly distinction in some branch of the humanities or social sciences, evidenced by published work.






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The British Academy is the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
's national academy
National academy

A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, most frequently in the sciences but also the humanities....
 for the humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
 and the social sciences. It was established by Royal Charter
Royal Charter

A royal charter is a charter granted by a Monarch to create institutions or other forms of incorporated bodies . In the United Kingdom legal tradition a royal charter is in the form of letters patent....
 in 1902, and is a fellowship of more than 800 scholars. The Academy is self-governing and independent.

As of June 2007, over 90% of the funds that the Academy administers are received as a grant from the Office of Science and Innovation (OSI), part of the UK's Department of Universities, Innovation and Skills.

The Academy states its objectives as follows:

  • to represent the interests of scholarship nationally and internationally;
  • to give recognition to excellence;
  • to promote and support advanced research;
  • to further international collaboration and exchange;
  • to promote public understanding of research and scholarship; and
  • to publish the results of research.


Fellowship
Fellowship

Fellowship may refer to:* An academic position: see fellow* A merit-based scholarship, or form of academic financial aid* Fellowship , a period of medical training after a residency...
 

Election as a Fellow of the British Academy recognises high scholarly distinction in some branch of the humanities or social sciences, evidenced by published work. Fellows may use the letters FBA after their names.

Presidents of the British Academy, 1902–present

  • The Lord Reay
    Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay

    Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay and 1st Baron Reay Order of the Thistle, Order of the Star of India, Order of the Indian Empire, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Deputy Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace was a Scotland peer and politician....
     1902–1907
  • Sir Edward Maunde Thompson
    Edward Maunde Thompson

    Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, Order of the Bath was a British palaeography, best remembered today for his study of William Shakespeare's handwriting in the manuscript of the play Sir Thomas More ....
     1907–1909
  • Samuel Butcher 1909–1910
  • Sir Adolphus Ward
    Adolphus William Ward

    Sir Adolphus William Ward was an England historian and man of letters.He was born at Hampstead, and was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge....
     1911–1913
  • The Viscount Bryce
    James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce

    James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Order of Merit, Royal Victorian Order, Fellow of the Royal Society, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, British Academy was a British jurist, historian and politician....
     1913–1917
  • Sir Frederic Kenyon
    Frederic G. Kenyon

    Sir Frederic George Kenyon Order of the British Empire Order of the Bath Territorial Decoration British Academy Society of Antiquaries of London was a British Paleography, Biblical criticism and Classics scholar....
     1917–1921
  • The Earl of Balfour
    Arthur Balfour

    Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit , Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and statesman....
     1921–1928
  • H. A. L. Fisher 1928–1932
  • John William Mackail
    John William Mackail

    John William Mackail O.M. was a Scottish man of letters and socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil scholar. He was also a poet, literary historian and biographer....
     1932–1936
  • Sir David Ross 1936–1940
  • J. H. Clapham
    John Clapham

    Sir John Harold Clapham, CBE, LittD, FBA was a British economic historian.He was educated at The Leys School, Cambridge and was the first Professor of Economic History at University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1938, and Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1933 until 1943 in which year he received a knighthood.....
     1940–1946
  • Sir Idris Bell
    Idris Bell

    Sir Harold Idris Bell Order of the Bath Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom papyrology and scholar of Welsh literature.Bell was born at Epworth, England, Lincolnshire to an England father and a Wales mother....
     1946–1950
  • Sir Charles Kingsley Webster 1950–1954
  • Sir George Norman Clark 1954–1958
  • Sir Maurice Bowra
    Maurice Bowra

    Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an England classical scholar, academic, and known for his wit. He was warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954....
     1958–1962
  • The Lord Robbins
    Lionel Robbins

    Lionel Charles Robbins was a British economics and adherent to the Austrian School of Economics. He is known for his proposed definition of economics, and for his instrumental efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its Alfred Marshall direction....
     1962–1967
  • Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare 1967–1971
  • Sir Denys Lionel Page 1971–1974
  • Sir Isaiah Berlin
    Isaiah Berlin

    Sir Isaiah Berlin, Order of Merit was a philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the twentieth century....
     1974–1978
  • Sir Kenneth James Dover
    Kenneth Dover

    Sir Kenneth James Dover, Royal Society of Edinburgh, British Academy is a distinguished United Kingdom academic who was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1981 until his retirement in December 2005....
     1978–1981
  • The Revd Owen Chadwick
    Owen Chadwick

    William Owen Chadwick, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire, British Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh is a United Kingdom professor, writer and prominent historian of Christianity....
     1981–1985
  • Sir Randolph Quirk 1985–1989
  • Sir Anthony Kenny
    Anthony Kenny

    Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny Fellow of the British Academy is an English people philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient philosophy and Scholasticism philosophy, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the philosophy of religion....
     1989–1993
  • Sir Keith Thomas
    Keith Thomas (historian)

    Sir Keith Vivian Thomas is an English historian, best known as the author of Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World....
     1993–1997
  • Sir Tony Wrigley 1997–2001
  • The Viscount Runciman of Doxford
    Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford

    Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the British Academy, is a leading United Kingdom historical sociologist, usually known informally as Garry Runciman....
     2001–2004
  • The Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve 2005–


Secretaries of the British Academy, 1902–present

  • Sir Israel Gollancz
    Israel Gollancz

    Sir Israel Gollancz was a scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare.Gollancz was born 13 July 1863, in London, sixth of seven children of Rabbi Samuel Marcus Gollancz , cantor of the Hambro Synagogue, London, and his wife, Johanna Koppell....
     (1902-30)
  • Sir Frederic G. Kenyon
    Frederic G. Kenyon

    Sir Frederic George Kenyon Order of the British Empire Order of the Bath Territorial Decoration British Academy Society of Antiquaries of London was a British Paleography, Biblical criticism and Classics scholar....
    , G.B.E., K.C.B. (1930-49)
  • Sir R. E. Mortimer Wheeler
    Mortimer Wheeler

    Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the Indian Empire, Military Cross, British Academy, Society of Antiquaries of London , was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century....
    , C.H., C.I.E., M.C. (1949-68)
  • Mr D. F. Allen, C.B. (1969-73)
  • Dr N. J. Williams (1973-77)
  • Mr J. P. Carswell
    J. P. Carswell

    John Patrick Carswell Order of the Bath Royal Society of Literature was an England civil servant and author who served as Secretary of the British Academy from 1978 to 1983....
    , C.B. (1978-83)
  • Mr P W H Brown, CBE (1983-2006)
  • Dr R Jackson (2006 -)


Publications


Lectures and Conferences Papers

  • British Academy Occasional Papers
  • Proceedings of the British Academy
    Proceedings of the British Academy

    Proceedings of the British Academy is a Serial published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press.Articles from Volume 51 onwards are available as Portable Document Format files for members, with the first page of every article and a select number of articles available at no cost....
  • Reissues of Proceedings lectures
  • Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology
    Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology

    The Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology are a series of lectures delivered and published under the auspices of the British Academy. The Leopold Schweich Trust Fund, set up in 1907, was a gift from Miss Constance Schweich in memory of her father....
  • Symposia
  • Thank-Offering to Britain Fund Lectures


Monographs

  • Archaeological reports (including BAMA)
  • British Academy Centenary Monographs
  • British Academy
  • Miscellaneous research publications
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
  • Supplemental Papers


Research series

  • Anglo-Saxon Charters
    Anglo-Saxon Charters

    Anglo-Saxon Charters are documents from the History of Anglo-Saxon England in Great Britain which typically make a grant of Real Estate or record a privilege....
  • Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi
  • Classical and Medieval Logic Texts
  • Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
  • Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani
  • Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
    Corpus vasorum antiquorum

    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum is an international research project for Ceramic documentation of the Classical_antiquity.CVA is the first and oldest research project of the Union Acad?mique Internationale of France....
  • Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
  • Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
  • Early English Church Music
  • English Episcopal Acta
  • Fontes Historiae Africanae
  • Oriental and African Archives
  • Oriental Documents
  • Records of Social and Economic History
  • Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles
    Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles

    The Sylloge of the Coins of the British Isles is an ongoing project to publish all major museum collections and certain important private collections of British one penny coin ....
  • Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum
    Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum

    Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum is an ancient Greek coin research project of the British Academy which catalogues both public and private Greek coin collections in the United Kingdom....
  • Tabula Imperii Romani


Reports

  • British Academy Review
  • review reports


Award of prizes


The British Academy awards the following prizes:

  • Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
    Rose Mary Crawshay Prize

    The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize is a literary prize for female scholars. It was inaugurated in 1888 and is stated by the British Academy to be the only UK literary prize for female scholars....
    , a literary award for female scholars


See also

  • Royal Society
    Royal Society

    The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, or even the Royal, is a learned society for science that was founded in 1660 and is considered by most to be the oldest such society still in existence....


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