Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, 20

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.

List of contents

• 1: Hugh Collins and Antony Duff: John Gardner, 1965-2019


• 2: Alan Bowman and Martin Goodman: Fergus Miller, 1925-2019


• 3: Malcolm Schofield: Myles Burnyeat, 1939-2019


• 4: Jeremy Lawrance: Trevor Dadson, 1947-2020


• 5: Charles Pattie, Peter Taylor, and Kelvyn Jones: Ron Johnston, 1941-2020


• 6: Anthony Harding: John Coles, 1930-2020


• 7: David D'Avray and John Hudson: Susan Reynolds, 1929-2021


• 8: Ritchie Robertson: W. Edgar Yates, 1938-2021


• 9: Roderick Beaton: William St Clair, 1937-2021


• 10: Christopher Dyer: Christopher Taylor, 1935-2021


• 11: Hew Strachan: Michael Howard, 1922-2019


• 12: Martti Koskenniemi and Gerry Simpson: James Crawford, 1948-2021


• 13: J. L. Lightfoot: Andrew Barker, 1943-2021


• 14: Dorothy V. M. Bishop: Oliver Braddick, 1944-2022


• 15: Richard Swinburne: John Lucas, 1929-2020


• 16: Stephen M. Hart: James Higgens, 1939-2021


• 17: Bill Burgwinkle: Simon Gaunt, 1959-2021


• 18: James McLaverty: Roger Londsale, 1934-2022


• 19: Malcolm Schofield and Francisco Hernández: Peter Linehan, 1943-2020


• 20: Edward Hughes and Ben Hutchinson: George Steiner, 1929-2020

Summary

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.

Product details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2023
• EAN: 9780197267448
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726744-8
• No. of pages: 414
• Series: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Institutions and learned societies: general, Institutions & learned societies: general