Dr Elizabeth Goldring, Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, has been elected to the Council of the Selden Society. Founded in 1887, the Selden Society is the only learned society and publisher devoted entirely to English legal history, its stated purpose being ‘to encourage study and advance the knowledge of the history of English Law’.

Catherine Bates, Research Professor in the Department of English has today been awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy. Professor Bates has been awarded the prize for her book ‘Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser’ published by Oxford University Press.

One or two prizes are awarded each year ‘to a woman of any nationality who, in the judgement of the Council of the British Academy, has written or published ... an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject connected with English Literature, preference being given to a work regarding one of the poets Byron, Shelley and Keats’.