Name: A Question of Retribution? The British Academy and the Matter of Anthony Blunt
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Author: David Cannadine
ISBN: 9780197266786

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A Question of Retribution? The British Academy and the Matter of Anthony Blunt

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Physical Book

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Author

David Cannadine

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

130

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780197266786

Synopsis "A Question of Retribution? The British Academy and the Matter of Anthony Blunt "

Through a unique set of documents never before published, this volume revisits the public furore when, at its Annual General Meeting forty years ago, the British Academy chose not to expel from its Fellowship the eminent art historian, Professor Anthony Blunt, who had recently been exposed as a former Soviet spy. The facsimile documents illustrate the intensely held views of leading academics as they wrestled with the question of whether considerations of pure scholarship could remain aloof from a revelation of political treachery. Also revealed is one faction's plot to stir up a public row through the national press - a tactic that was ultimately successful in achieving Blunt's resignation from the Academy. Historian and current President of the British Academy, David Cannadine, provides the background to the Blunt story, and portrays some of the main characters: Kenneth Dover, the President at the time who struggled to steer the Academy through the crisis; the historian J.H. Plumb, who led the vicious campaign to see Blunt expelled; and A.J.P. Taylor, who was equally determined that the Academy should be willing to 'tolerate the intolerable'.

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