Question of Retribution? - The British Academy and the Matter of Anthony Blunt

Through previously unpublished documents, this volume revisits the public furore 40 years ago when the British Academy chose not to expel from its Fellowship the eminent art historian, Anthony Blunt, who had been exposed as a former Soviet spy. David Cannadine portrays the main characters in this episode which rocked the academic establishment.

List of contents

• Preface


• Notes of the documents and sources


• Prologue


• Documentary narrative


• Epilogue


• Index of Fellows and Staff at the British Academy


• General Index

About the author

Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, Visiting Professor at Oxford University, the Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and the current President of the British Academy. His works include: The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy; G.M. Trevelyan: A Life in History; Class in Britain; Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy; and Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906.

Summary

Through previously unpublished documents, this volume revisits the public furore 40 years ago when the British Academy chose not to expel from its Fellowship the eminent art historian, Anthony Blunt, who had been exposed as a former Soviet spy. David Cannadine portrays the main characters in this episode which rocked the academic establishment.

Product details

• Authors: David Cannadine, David (President of the British Academy Cannadine
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.2020
• EAN: 9780197266786
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726678-6
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Miscellaneous British Academy Publications
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); History: specific events & topics, Diaries, letters & journals, HISTORY / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, History: specific events and topics, Diaries, letters and journals, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs