Dr Margaret Bent awarded the Derek Allen Prize for Musicology

Dr Margaret Bent CBE FBA, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, has been awarded the Derek Allen Prize for Musicology by the British Academy. This prize commemorates Derek Allen FBA (1910–1975), a former Secretary and Treasurer of the Academy. Annual awards are made in turn in musicology, numismatics and Celtic studies. 2016 is the turn of musicology. Margaret has been honoured for her contribution to the field of musicology, in particular English, French and Italian music from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.