The Derek Allen Prize is awarded by the

British Academy The British Academy 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 same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spa ...

. 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 includ ...

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

and musicology. 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 had been awarded the prize: 20th-century * 1977 (musicology): Professor

Oliver Strunk William Oliver Strunk (March 22, 1901 – February 24, 1980) was an American musicologist. Charles Rosen called him one of the most influential American musicologists of the 1930s–1960s.Rosen, Charles. "The Discipline of Philology: Oliver Strun ...

* 1978 (numismatics): Dr Karel Castelin * 1979 (Celtic studies): Professor Kenneth Jackson * 1980 (musicology): Dr

Julian Budden Julian Medforth Budden (9 April 1924 in Hoylake, Wirral – 28 February 2007 in Florence, Italy) was a British opera scholar, radio producer and broadcaster. He is particularly known for his three volumes on the operas of Giuseppe Verdi (publishe ...

* 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 Professor Reinhard Strohm FBA (born 4 August 1942, Munich) is a German musicologist based largely in the United Kingdom, with an interest in 14th to 18th-century music. Strohm studied Musicology, Medieval Latin, and Romance Literatures, at the ...

* 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 Peter Kenneth Holman MBE (born 19 October 1946, London) is an English conductor and musicologist best known for reviving the music of Purcell and his English contemporaries. Holman, with the ensemble The Parley of Instruments made many of the ex ...

* 1996 (numismatics): Dr J. P. C. Kent * 1997 (Celtic studies): Professor

Proinsias Mac Cana Proinsias Mac Cana (6 July 1926 – 21 May 2004) was an academic and Celtic scholar. He held professorships at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and University College Dublin. Career Proinsias Mac Cana was born in Belfast on 6 July 192 ...

* 1998 (musicology): Professor

Peter Walls Lieutenant General George Peter Walls GLM DCD MBE (1927-201Walls: "We will make it work" Time magazine and CNN – 20 July 2010) was a Rhodesian soldier. He served as the Head of the Armed Forces of Rhodesia during the Rhodesian Bush War from ...

* 1999 (numismatics):

Cécile Morrisson Cécile Morrisson (born 16 June 1940) is a French historian and numismatist. She is Director of Research emeritus at the French National Center for Scientific Research and specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire. Biography Cécile Morr ...

21st-century * 2000 (Celtic studies): Professor

Derick Thomson Derick Smith Thomson (Scottish Gaelic: ''Ruaraidh MacThòmais''; 5 August 1921, Stornoway – 21 March 2012, Glasgow) was a Scottish poet, publisher, lexicographer, academic and writer. He was originally from Lewis, but spent much of his life ...

, FBA * 2001 (musicology): Dr Janice Stockigt * 2002 (numismatics): Professor Dr Gert Hatz * 2003 (Celtic studies): Professor Pádraig Ó Riain * 2004 (musicology): Professor Colin Timms * 2005 (numismatics): Professor

Philip Grierson Philip Grierson, FBA (15 November 1910 – 15 January 2006) was a British historian and numismatist, emeritus professor of numismatics at Cambridge University and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College for over seventy years. During his long an ...

, FBA * 2006 (Celtic studies):

Daniel Huws Daniel Huws (born 1932) is the world's leading authority of the last hundred years on Welsh manuscripts, with contributions that are held to represent a significant advance on those of John Gwenogvryn Evans. He is noted in particular for his st ...

* 2007 (musicology): Professor

Philip V. Bohlman Philip Vilas Bohlman (born August 8, 1952) is an American ethnomusicologist. Life and career He is the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago and a visiting pr ...

* 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 Gary Alfred Tomlinson (born December 4, 1951) is an American musicologist and the John Hay Whitney Professor of Music and Humanities at Yale University. He was formerly the Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He ...

, 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, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England) is a British musicologist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus at King's College London. Between 1975 and 1996 he was Professor at King's. Previously he lectured at Cambridge, Nottingha ...

, 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 Margaret Bent CBE , (born Margaret Hilda Bassington; 23 December 1940) is an English musicologist who specializes in music of the late medieval and Renaissance eras. In particular, she has written extensively on the Old Hall Manuscript, English ...

, 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 tenor, actor and comedian. Crawford is best known for playing both the hapless Frank Spencer in the sitcom '' Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em'' a ...

, FBA, University College London * 2018 (Celtic studies): Professor

Máire Herbert Máire R. M. Herbert , also known as Mary Herbert, is an Irish historian and academic, specialising in early medieval Irish history and Irish saints. She is Emeritus Professor of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork, and was pre ...

, 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 Alejandro Enrique Planchart (29 July 1935 – 28 April 2019) was a Venezuelan-American musicologist, conductor, and composer. He was considered to be one of the leading scholars on the music of Guillaume Du Fay; more broadly, he was a specialist ...

* 2020 (numismatics): Dr Andrew Burnett * 2021 (Celtic studies): Professor Ralph A. Griffiths

References

{{Derek Allen Prize British Academy Awards for numismatics Celtic studies Musicology Academic awards British awards Awards established in 1976 1976 establishments in the United Kingdom

List of recipients

See also

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