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̽»¨Ö±²¥AGM was originally due to have been held on Thursday 7 July, but was disrupted by the terrorist bombings in the capital, and had to be reconvened.

Professor Simon Deakin, Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance at the Judge Business School; Professor Ronald Martin, Professor of Economic Geography; and Professor David Reynolds, an expert in 20th century international history, were elected as Ordinary Fellows of the British Academy - the national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

There was also an award for Dr Claire Preston, a member of the Faculty of English. She received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, for her 2004 book ‘Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science’.

̽»¨Ö±²¥British Academy is the counterpart to the Royal Society, which exists to serve the natural sciences. ̽»¨Ö±²¥British Academy's aims are to represent the interests of scholarship nationally and internationally; to give recognition to excellence; to promote and support advanced research; to further international collaboration and exchange; to promote public understanding of research and scholarship; and to publish the results of research.