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Professor Norman Davies FBA

History, Eastern Europe including Russia Poland
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1997
Subjects
History
Sections
Modern History from 1850
Website
http://www.normandavies.com

10-Minute Talks: George II Augustus von Welf, British King and German Prince-Elector

26 May 2021 Professor Norman Davies FBA

In this talk, Norman Davies tells the unfamiliar story of how George II's German Electorate was governed by him from St. James’s Palace in London.

Current post

University of London Professor Emeritus of History

St Antony's College, Oxford Honorary Fellow

Clare Hall, Cambridge Honorary Fellow

Past appointments

School of Slavonic & East European Studies. University of London Lecturer; Professor in Polish History

1972 - 1996

St Antony's College University of Oxford Alistair Horne Research Fellow

1970 - 1972

Publications

Vanished Kingdoms 2011

God's playground: a history of Poland (2 vols), 1981

Europe: a history 1996

The Isles: a history 1999

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Professor Joy Damousi FBA

Joy Damousi's research interests are the aftermaths of war in the 20th century; humanitarianism, migration and refugee history; cultural history of war; memory and the history of emotions; gender and women’s history; and the history of psychoanalysis.

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