Professor Norman Davies FBA

History, Eastern Europe including Russia Poland
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1997
Subjects
History

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 Jeremy Adelman FBA

Born in Canada, Jeremy Adelman received university degrees from the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he completed his DPhil in 1989. A recipient of awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations, Adelman has authored or edited fifteen books.

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Professor Maxine Berg FBA

Global history, especially connections between Europe and Asia; economic history; historiography and intellectual history; early modern history

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Professor Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA

The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra

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