Awards and Distinctions
Davies holds a number of honorary titles and memberships, including honorary doctorates from the universities of the Jagiellonian University (since 2003), Lublin, Gdańsk and Warsaw (since 2007), memberships in the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU), the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, and the International Honorary Council of the European Academy of Diplomacy, and fellowships of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. Davies received an honorary DLitt degree from his alma mater the University of Sussex.
Davies is also an honorary citizen of Polish cities of Warsaw, Wrocław, Lublin and Kraków.
Member of the committee for the Order of the Smile.
President of the Polish government-in-exile Edward Bernard Raczyński decorated Davies with the Order of Polonia Restituta. On 22 December 1998 President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski awarded him the Grand Cross (1st class) of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Finally, on 11 November 2012, Davies was decorated with the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest civilian award.
Norman Davies has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the European Association of History Educators - EUROCLIO. In 2008 he was awarded the Order of the Cross of St Mary's Land 3rd Class by the Republic of Estonia.
Davies also received The Knight of Freedom Award in 2006 for his promotion of Polish history and the values represented by General Casimir Pulaski.
In 2012 he received the Aleksander Gieysztor Prize for his promotion of Polish cultural heritage abroad.
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