Davies subsequently sought to obtain $3 million in damages from the university, arguing he had been the victim of discrimination on the grounds of his political views (with the claim being " defamation," " breach of contract" and "tortious interference" with a business). This case was dismissed when Davies was unable to depose Kahn. After failing to arrange a formal review hearing of the decision, Davies filed a lawsuit against History Professor Harold Kahn and 29 other Stanford professors. The decision was described as "the closest, most acrimonious tenure decision of recent years". Stanford University's history department denied Davies a tenured faculty position in 1986 (on an 11 against, 10 for and 1 abstaining, vote). Throughout his career, Davies has lectured in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Poland and in most of the rest of Europe as well. He subsequently became Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1997 to 2006. The Polish–Soviet War 1919–20.įrom 1971, Davies taught Polish history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College London, where he was professor from 1985 to 1996, when he retired. 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. He was awarded an MA at the University of Sussex in 1966 and also studied in Perugia, Italy.ĭavies intended to study for a PhD in the Soviet Union but was denied an entry visa, so instead he went to Kraków, Poland, to study at the Jagiellonian University and did research on the Polish–Soviet War. 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. Davies was born to Richard and Elizabeth Davies in Bolton, Lancashire.
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