In October 1906 Constance Schweich offered a gift of £10,000 to the British Academy for the endowment of a series of lectures in memory of her father, Leopold Schweich. The first lecture series was delivered in 1908, since when there have been sixty-seven series of Schweich Lectures, initially annually, later (roughly) every other year, and today, triennially. A centenary lecture was delivered in 2008 by Graham Davies, and the enlarged published version of his lecture is a well-researched account of the Schweich family, the setting up of the series (the trust deed and some of the initial correspondence is reprinted), an account of the scope of the lectures over the century (there is a list of the lecturers and their series, and publication details) and a discussion of how developments in the field of ‘biblical archaeology’ have affected the link between the Bible and archaeology, with reference to the original aims of the endowment and their execution. Constance Schweich, who was also related to the Mond family, married Sigismund Goetze, and made a number of benefactions to the arts and humanities as well as that to the British Academy. The lectures have made an important contribution to biblical scholarship and related fields, and will continue to do so. It is good to have this informative account of their origin, history and future prospects.