The Derek Allen Prize is awarded by the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

. It was founded in 1976 to honour Derek Allen, FBA, who was secretary (1969–73) and treasurer (1973–75) of the British Academy. It was established by his widow and sons to recognise outstanding scholarly achievement in Allen's principal interests:

numismatics Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals, and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also inclu ...

Celtic studies Celtic studies or Celtology is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to the Celts, Celtic-speaking peoples (i.e. speakers of Celtic languages). This ranges from linguistics, literature and art h ...

and

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

. Although awarded annually, the prize rotates between the three disciplines. Recipients are awarded £400."Derek Allen Prize"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 13 May 2018.

List of recipients

The following specialists have been awarded the prize: 20th-century * 1977 (musicology): Professor Oliver Strunk * 1978 (numismatics): Dr Karel Castelin * 1979 (Celtic studies): Professor Kenneth Jackson * 1980 (musicology): Dr Julian Budden * 1981 (numismatics): J. B. Colbert de Beaulieu * 1982 (Celtic studies): Professor Brian Ó Cuiv * 1983 (musicology): Dr David Brown * 1984 (numismatics): Dr Simone Scheers * 1985 (Celtic studies): Professor J. E. Caerwyn Williams * 1986 (musicology): Professor Reinhard Strohm * 1987 (numismatics): Dr Georges Le Rider * 1988 (Celtic studies): Professor Edouard Bachellery * 1989 (musicology): Professor J. E. Stevens * 1990 (numismatics): Dr P. Bastien * 1991 (Celtic studies): Professor K. H. Schmidt * 1992 (musicology): David Cairns * 1993 (numismatics): Jean Lafaurie * 1994 (Celtic studies): Professor Emeritus Eric P. Hamp * 1995 (musicology): Dr Peter Holman * 1996 (numismatics): Dr J. P. C. Kent * 1997 (Celtic studies): Professor Proinsias Mac Cana * 1998 (musicology): Professor Peter Walls * 1999 (numismatics): Cécile Morrisson 21st-century * 2000 (Celtic studies): Professor Derick Thomson, FBA * 2001 (musicology): Dr Janice Stockigt * 2002 (numismatics): Professor Dr Gert Hatz * 2003 (Celtic studies): Professor

Pádraig Ó Riain Pádraig Ó Riain is an Irish Celticist and prominent hagiologist focusing on Irish hagiography, martyrdom, mythology, onomastics and codicology. Ó Riain has spent much of his academic life at the University College Cork, where he became a lec ...

* 2004 (musicology): Professor Colin Timms * 2005 (numismatics): Professor Philip Grierson, FBA * 2006 (Celtic studies): Daniel Huws * 2007 (musicology): Professor Philip V. Bohlman * 2008 (numismatics): Professor Michael Metcalf, Emeritus Professor of Numismatics, University of Oxford * 2009 (Celtic studies): Yr Athro Dafydd Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Legal History and Welsh Law, University of Aberystwyth * 2010 (musicology): Professor Gary Tomlinson, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania * 2011 (numismatics): Dr Mark Blackburn, Keeper, Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge * 2012 (Celtic studies): Professor

Fergus Kelly Fergus Kelly is an academic at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. His research interests centre on early Irish law-texts and wisdom-texts. He graduated in 1967 in Early and Modern Irish from Trinity College Dublin. He spent a year in th ...

, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies * 2013 (musicology): Professor

Arnold Whittall Arnold Whittall (born 1935) is a British musicologist and academic. Whittall's research areas have primarily been centred around the musical analysis of 20th-century music and aspects of the nineteenth-century, such as the music of Richard Wagner. ...

, King's College London * 2014 (numismatics): Dr Richard Reece, University College London * 2015 (Celtic studies): Professor

Pierre-Yves Lambert Pierre-Yves Lambert (born 30 May 1949) is a French linguist and scholar of Celtic studies. He is a researcher at the CNRS and a lecturer at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Celtic linguistics and philology. Lambert is the director of the j ...

, Centre national de la recherche scientifique * 2016 (musicology): Dr Margaret Bent, CBE, FBA, University of Oxford * 2017 (numismatics): Professor

Michael Crawford Michael Patrick Smith (born 19 January 1942), known professionally as Michael Crawford, is an English actor, comedian and singer. Crawford is best known for playing the hapless Frank Spencer in the sitcom '' Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em'', Cornel ...

, FBA, University College London * 2018 (Celtic studies): Professor Máire Herbert, MRIA, University College Cork"Award-winning journalists, prehistorians and world-leading economists honoured with prestigious British Academy prizes and medals"
''The British Academy'', 20 August 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018. * 2019 (musicology): Alejandro Planchart * 2020 (numismatics): Dr Andrew Burnett * 2021 (Celtic studies): Professor Ralph A. Griffiths * 2022 (musicology) : Professor Suzanne G. Cusick * 2023 (numismatics) : Dr Joe Cribb * 2024 (Celtic studies): Erich Poppe

References

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List of recipients

See also

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