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Twenty years of the ‘British Academy Review’

A ‘From the Archive’ article

From the Archive: The Fellowship of Learning

The following is an extract from Sir Frederic Kenyon’s 1921 Presidential Address on ‘The Fellowship of Learning’, in which he took as his cue Francis Bacon’s Instauratio Magna (1620) and its ‘vision of the Kingdom of Knowledge, the ideal of the Fellowship of Learning, which our Academy exists to foster …

‘Aspects of Art’: The lecture series

Dawn Adès is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, and a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1995, she delivered the Aspects of Art Lecture on ‘Marcel Duchamp and the Paradox of Modernity’.

Leopold Schweich and his Family

Though established by Royal Charter in 1902, the fledgling British Academy had no financial resources beyond the subscriptions of its first Fellows: a bid to the Treasury for ‘assistance from public funds’ was rebuffed in 1904. To remedy the situation, the Secretary of the Academy, Israel Gollancz, turned to a …

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