The British Academy Medal is awarded annually by the

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to up to three individuals or groups. It is awarded for "outstanding achievement that has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study in ... any branch of the humanities and social sciences". It was first awarded in 2013. It is the first medal awarded by the British Academy for any subject within the remit of the academy. According to a reputation survey conducted in 2018, it is the third most prestigious interdisciplinary award in the social sciences, after the

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and the

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. The British Academy medal is no longer being awarded since 2019.

List of recipients

2013

Three people were awarded the British Academy Medal in 2013. *

David Abulafia David Abulafia (born 12 December 1949) is an English historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He spent most of his career at the University of Cambridge, ris ...

FBA, for '' The Great Sea'' (2011) * Dr

Noel Malcolm Sir Noel Robert Malcolm, (born 26 December 1956) is an English political journalist, historian and academic. A King's Scholar at Eton College, Malcolm read history at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and received his doctorate in history from Trinity Col ...

FBA, for ''Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan'' (2012) * Timothy Shallice FBA, and Dr Richard Cooper, for ''The Organisation of Mind'' (2011)

2014

Three people were awarded the British Academy Medal in 2014. * Professor

David Luscombe David Edward Luscombe (22 July 1938 – 30 August 2021) was a British medievalist. He was professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Sheffield. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1986. He was also a fellow of the R ...

FBA, for ''The Letter Collection of Peter Abelard and Heloise'' (Oxford University Press, 2013) * Professor Geoffrey Parker FBA, for ''Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century'' (Yale University Press, 2013) * Professor

Thomas Piketty Thomas Piketty (; born 7 May 1971) is a French economist who is Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the In ...

, for '' Capital in the 21st Century''

2015

Three people were awarded the British Academy Medal in 2015. * Professor Patricia Clavin, for ''Securing The World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations 1920-1946'' (Oxford University Press, 2013) * Professor R. F. Foster FBA, for ''Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1890-1923'' (Allen Lane, 2014) * Professor Robert Fowler FBA, for ''Early Greek Mythography Volume 2: Commentary'' (Oxford University Press, 2013)

2016

Three people were awarded the British Academy Medal in 2016. * Professor

Tim Blanning Timothy Charles William Blanning (born 21 April 1942) is an English historian who served as Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 2009. Career Timothy Charles William Blanning attended the King's Sch ...

FBA, for ''Frederick the Great: King of Prussia'' (Allen Lane, 2015) * Dr Susan E. Kelly, for ''Charters of Chertsey Abbey'' (British Academy, 2015) and ''Charters of Christ Church Canterbury'' (British Academy, 2013) * Professor

David Lowenthal David Lowenthal (26 April 1923 – 15 September 2018) was an American historian and geographer, renowned for his work on heritage. He is credited with having made heritage studies a discipline in its own right. Biography David Lowenthal was b ...

FBA, for ''The Past is a Foreign Country – Revisited'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

2017

On 27 September 2017, three individuals were awarded the British Academy Medal: * Professor Antony Griffiths FBA, for ''The Print Before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550-1820'' (2016) * Professor

Avi Shlaim Avraham "Avi" Shlaim (born 31 October 1945) is an Israeli- British historian, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and fellow of the British Academy. He is one of Israel's New Historians, a group of Israe ...

FBA, for lifetime achievement * Professor Dame Marina Warner DBE CBE FBA, for lifetime achievement

2018

On 20 August 2018, three individuals were awarded the British Academy Medal: * Dr

Miriam Griffin Miriam Tamara Griffin (née Dressler; 6 June 1935 – 16 May 2018) was an American classical scholar and tutor of ancient history at Somerville College at the University of Oxford from 1967 to 2002. She was a scholar of Roman history and ancien ...

, for lifetime achievement * Dr Timothy Bruce Mitford, FSA, for ''East of Asia Minor: Rome’s Hidden Frontier, Vols I & II'' (Oxford University Press, 2018) * Professor

Catherine Whistler Catherine Whistler is an Irish art historian and curator, specialising in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, a supernumerary fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History ...

, for ''Venice and Drawing, 1500–1800: Theory, Practice and Collection'' (Yale University Press, 2016)

2019

In 2019, one individual was awarded the British Academy Medal: * Professor

Naomi Oreskes Naomi Oreskes (; born November 25, 1958) is an American historian of science. She became Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University in 2013, after 15 years as Professor of H ...

, for ''Merchants of Doubt'' (Bloomsbury Press, 2010) and ''The Collapse of Western Civilization'' (Columbia University Press, 2014), and for her commitment to documenting the role of corporations in distorting scientific findings for political ends

References

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