Earliest attempts at colour printing in the West are on display for the first time at British Museum exhibition of German Renaissance Colour Woodcuts curated by British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Elizabeth Savage. A new exhibition at the British Museum examines the earliest attempts to incorporate colour into printmaking in the 1400s and 1500s in […]
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New Generation Thinker Awards
Cambridge English has won two of the BBC’s New Generation Thinker Awards for 2015, through Trinity College Fellow in English Joe Moshenska and Selwyn PhD student Clare Walker Gore. Joe Moshenska has worked on the importance of touch in religious and early scientific debates, the philosophical history of tickling and the reception of Chinese medicine […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Christopher Page is appointed the next Gresham Professor of Music.
Professor Christopher Page has been appointed as the next Gresham Professor of Music at Gresham College in London, founded in 1597. He replaces Christopher Hogwood CBE. Christopher Page is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature in the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. The author […]
Continue ReadingColleagues Elected Fellows of the British Academy
The Faculty is delighted to announce that two of our colleagues have been elected Fellows of the British Academy. We extend our congratulations to Professor John Kerrigan and Professor Christopher Page.
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