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Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK鈥檚 national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is a fellowship of over 1400 of the leading minds in these subjects from the UK and overseas.

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This year a total of听84 Fellows 鈥� 52 UK Fellows, 29 Corresponding Fellows and 3 Honorary Fellows听鈥� have been elected to the Fellowship.听

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• Clockwise from top left: Professor Andrew Steptoe, Professor Susan Michie, Professor Li Wei, Professor Becky Francis, Professor Sacha Stern and Professor Susanne Kord