Three University of Cambridge academics - a lawyer, a geographer and a historian - have been elected fellows of the British Academy at its delayed 103rd Annual General Meeting on Friday July 29.

The AGM was originally due to have been held on Thursday 7 July, but was disrupted by the terrorist bombings in the capital, and had to be reconvened.

Professor Simon Deakin, Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance at the Judge Business School; Professor Ronald Martin, Professor of Economic Geography; and Professor David Reynolds, an expert in 20th century international history, were elected as Ordinary Fellows of the British Academy - the national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

There was also an award for Dr Claire Preston, a member of the Faculty of English. She received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, for her 2004 book ‘Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science’.

The British Academy is the counterpart to the Royal Society, which exists to serve the natural sciences. The British Academy's aims are to represent the interests of scholarship nationally and internationally; to give recognition to excellence; to promote and support advanced research; to further international collaboration and exchange; to promote public understanding of research and scholarship; and to publish the results of research.


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