The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life. The Fellows of the British Academy who are remembered in this volume are (with possible additions):
Lewis Binford; Richard Britnell; William Brock; Nicholas Brooks; Charles E. B. Cranfield; James Durbin; Sheppard Frere; Robert Gruffydd; Peter Hall; Anthony Hobson; Maurice Keen; Frank Kermode; Piers Mackesy; Isabel de Madariaga; Ernest Nicholson; John Shepherdson; Jon Stallworthy.
Clive Gamble: Lewis Roberts Binford Christopher Dyer: Richard Hugh Britnell Brian Holden Reid: William Ranulf Brock Barbara Crawford, Simon Keynes, and Jinty Nelson: Nicholas Peter Brooks James D. G. Dunn: Charles E. B. Cranfield Andrew Harvey and David Bartholomew: James Durbin R. J. A. Wilson: Sheppard Sunderland Frere Robert M. Jones: Robert Geraint Gruffydd Michael Batty: Peter Geoffrey Hall David Mckitterick: Anthony Robert Alwyn Hobson Christopher Tyerman: Maurice Hugh Keen Michael Wood: John Frank Kermode Michael Duffy: Piers Gerald Mackesy Hamish Scott and Janet M. Hartley: Isabel Margaret De Madariaga John Barton: Ernest Wilson Nicholson John N. Crossley: John Cedric Shepherdson Peter France: Jon Howie Stallworthy
Ron Johnston FBA, Professor of Geography, University of Bristol.