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Celebrating Italian studies: the Serena Medal

A ‘From the archive’ article

The origins of a British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem

A ‘From the Archive’ article.

Canon Sanday on ‘International scholarship after the war’, May 1918

A ‘From the Archive’ article.

The move to a new home at Carlton House Terrace, 1998

A ‘From the Archive’ article.

The British Academy’s seal

A ‘From the Archive’ article.

The British Academy Dining Club, October 1917

A ‘From the Archive’ article.

British Academy Small Research Grants: an anniversary worth celebrating

In May 1963, the British Academy’s newly established ‘Research Fund Committee’ awarded the first research grants from the Academy’s new ‘Research Fund’ – financed by a grant from government that had been negotiated a year earlier. In the 50-year history of the Academy’s small-scale research funding, nearly 15,000 awards have …

From the Archive: One hundred years ago (Election of new Fellows press release 1903)

The first election of new Fellows of the British Academy was at a General Meeting in March 1903. Illustrated is the draft press release recording this meeting.

Burnt books: The British Academy and the restoration of two academic libraries

From the archive. The British Academy’s involvement in the restoration of two libraries - in Louvain and Tokyo - in the early 20th century.

Looking back at ‘The next thirty years’

Stefan Collini revisits Lord Bryce’s Presidential Address of 1917.

John Milton, 1608 to 2008 (via 1908)

A ‘From the Archive’ article.

Winston Churchill and the British Academy

Sixty years ago the British Academy elected Prime Minister Winston Churchill as an Honorary Fellow. But this was not the first time that Churchill had been considered for election to the Academy. A ‘From the Archive’ article.

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