After he obtained his PhD in Kraków in 1968, the English text was published in 1972 under the title White Eagle, Red Star. As this war was denied in the official communist Polish historiography of that time, he was obliged to change the title of his dissertation to The British Foreign Policy towards Poland, 1919–20. Davies studied at the Jagiellonian University and did research on the Polish–Soviet War. Davies intended to study for a PhD in the Soviet Union but was denied an entry visa, so he went to Kraków, Poland, instead. He was awarded an MA at the University of Sussex in 1966 and also studied in Perugia, Italy. Taylor at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he earned a BA in history in 1962. He studied in Grenoble, France, from 1957 to 1958 and then under A. Academic careerĭavies was born to Richard and Elizabeth Davies in Bolton, Lancashire. He was granted Polish citizenship in 2014.
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. Ivor Norman Richard Davies CMG FBA FRHistS (born 8 June 1939) is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
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