The first 20 women to be elected as Fellows of the British Academy (with links to extended obituaries published in the Proceedings of the British Academy)
Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), elected FBA 1931, sociology
Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888-1985), elected FBA 1944, archaeology
Helen Cam (1885-1968), elected FBA 1945, history
Helen Darbishire (1881-1961), elected FBA 1947, English literature
Dorothy Garrod (1892-1968), elected FBA 1952, archaeology
Jocelyn Toynbee (1897-1985), elected FBA 1952, archaeology
Doris M. Stenton (1894-1971), elected FBA 1953, history
Lucy Sutherland (1903-1980), elected FBA 1954, history
Florence Harmer (1890-1967), elected FBA 1955, history
Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978), elected FBA 1955, archaeology
Nora Chadwick (1891-1972), elected FBA 1956, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic
Dorothy Whitelock (1901-1982), elected FBA 1956, Anglo-Saxon
Amy Dale (1901-1967), elected FBA 1957, classics
Helen Gardner (1908-1986), elected FBA 1958, English literature
Joan Robinson (1903-1983), elected FBA 1958, economics
Margery Perham (1895-1982), elected FBA 1961, history
Mary Lascelles (1900-1995), elected FBA 1962, English literature
Eleanora Carus-Wilson (1897-1977), elected FBA 1963, economic history
Beryl Smalley (1905-1984), elected FBA 1963, history
Ann Lambton (1912-2008), elected FBA 1964, oriental history
See also:
Ten Influential Female Fellows (British Academy blog, 2018)
Celebrating women in the humanities and social sciences (British Academy Review 20, Summer 2012)
This page was created to mark 12 Decades of the British Academy.
