The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life. The Fellows of the British Academy who are remembered in this volume are (with possible additions): Lewis Binford; Richard Britnell; William Brock; Nicholas Brooks; Charles E. B. Cranfield; James Durbin; Sheppard Frere; Robert Gruffydd; Peter Hall; Anthony Hobson; Maurice Keen; Frank Kermode; Piers Mackesy; Isabel de Madariaga; Ernest Nicholson; John Shepherdson; Jon Stallworthy.
ISBN: | 9780197266052 |
Publication date: | 5th January 2017 |
Author: | Ron (Professor of Geography, Professor of Geography, University of Bristol) Johnston FBA |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 434 pages |
Series: | Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy |
Genres: |
Collected biographies Institutions and learned societies: general |