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 span ...

. 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 Celtic-speaking peoples (i.e. speakers of Celtic languages). This ranges from linguistics, literature and art histo ...

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 * 1978 (numismatics): Dr

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* 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 (publish ...

* 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 John Ellis Caerwyn Williams FBA (17 January 1912 – 10 June 1999), was a Welsh scholar. His fields of study included the literatures of the Celtic languages, especially Welsh and Irish literature. He has published books in both English and Welsh ...

* 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 Georges Charles Le Rider (27 January 1928 – 3 July 2014) was a French historian, librarian and administrator, a specialist in Greek numismatics, who headed the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. He had a filial relationship with Henri ...

* 1988 (Celtic studies): Professor Edouard Bachellery * 1989 (musicology): Professor J. E. Stevens * 1990 (numismatics): Dr

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* 1991 (Celtic studies): Professor K. H. Schmidt * 1992 (musicology): David Cairns * 1993 (numismatics):

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* 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 e ...

* 1996 (numismatics): Dr J. P. C. Kent * 1997 (Celtic studies): Professor Proinsias Mac Cana * 1998 (musicology): Professor

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* 1999 (numismatics): Cécile Morrisson 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 i ...

, FBA * 2001 (musicology): Dr

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* 2002 (numismatics): Professor Dr

Gert Hatz Vera Hatz (1923 - 2010) was a German numismatist, who specialised in medieval European coinage, in particular that of the tenth and eleventh centuries in northern Europe. She was jointly awarded the Royal Numismatic Society Medal, as well as the ...

* 2003 (Celtic studies): Professor Pádraig Ó Riain * 2004 (musicology): Professor

Colin Timms Colin Ronald Timms is a musicologist and retired academic. He was Peyton and Barber Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham from 1992 until 2012, when he retired. After graduating from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts ...

* 2005 (numismatics): Professor Philip Grierson, 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 stud ...

* 2007 (musicology): Professor Philip V. Bohlman * 2008 (numismatics): Professor

Michael Metcalf David Michael Metcalf (8 May 1933 – 25 October 2018) was a British academic and numismatist. He was the director of the Heberden Coin Room of the Ashmolean Museum, a fellow of Wolfson College and Professor of Numismatics at the University of ...

, 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, 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, Nottingham ...

, King's College London * 2014 (numismatics): Dr

Richard Reece Richard Marsden Reece, FSA (born 1939) is a numismatist and retired academic.

, 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 ...

, 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 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, 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 Andrew Michael Burnett, (born 23 May 1952) is a British numismatist and museum curator, who specialises in Roman coins. He was Deputy Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2013, and Keeper of its Department of Coins and Medals from 1992 ...

* 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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