Norman Davies
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Ivor Norman Richard Davies is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom.
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On reading somewhere that the Welsh name for 'England', Lloegr, meant 'the Lost Land', I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss and forgetting the name expresses.
Introduction (p. 2)
All the nations that ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand.
Ch. 7: Borussia (p. 393)
The difference between a referendum and a plebiscite is a fine one. Both pertain to collective decisions made by the direct vote of all qualified adults.
Ch. 8: Sabaudia (p. 423)
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Connected to Norman 6
Olga TokarczukAlso won honorary citizen of Wrocław
Frank WilczekAlso won honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Agnieszka RadwańskaAlso won Bene Merito
Aaron CiechanoverAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw
Adam MichnikAlso won Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class
Zbigniew ReligaAlso won Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic)About this person
Ivor Norman Richard Davies is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. He has a special interest in Central and Eastern Europe and is UNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian University, professor emeritus at University College London, a visiting professor at the Collège d'Europe, and an honorary fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. He was granted Polish citizenship in 2014.
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