FBA

I am going to allow myself a little boast -- because, as Richard Baron has already noticed in his comment on the last post, I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy yesterday. In fact I have known about this for a couple of months. It's one of those things where you get a letter saying that this is on the cards, but that is not going to be official until it has actually been passed formally at the AGM... and you are not to breathe a word etc etc.

If you are like me -- female...