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 Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen FBA

Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history

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Professor Patricia Clavin FBA

The international and transnational history of the 20th and 21st centuries; internationalism and global organisations, notably the League of Nations; European and US foreign policies, reappraising notions of security; the Great Depression

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Professor Charles Townshend FBA

Modern British and Irish history; the history of war, particularly political violence, and terrorism, public security, emergency powers and counter-insurgency in Ireland and Palestine under British rule

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