Research Grant Success

British Academy Research Grant Success for Stephen Banfield

[Posted on 30 June 2006]

Professor Stephen Banfield has been awarded a British Academy small research grant of £5199 for a part of his Empire project, Music in the British Empire: a documentary history through the general press, 1765-1965. This will be an annotated anthology of musical source readings found in newspapers from around the anglophone world over two centuries, ranging from advertisements and announcements to reviews and leading articles in which music features centrally or casually. The grant will mostly be spent on about 150 day visits, over the coming two years, to the British Library's amazing range of holdings at the National Newspaper Library in Colindale.