Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (1968) is Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES).
Biography
He studied history at the University of Cambridge, graduating with first class honours in 1989. He gained his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1994. He taught at the University of Łódź in 1993–94, then held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford. He became a lecturer in Modern European History at the Queen’s University of Belfast in 1997. He joined SSEES in 2005, becoming a professor in 2013.
Books in order of publication:
Poland’s Last King and English Culture: Stanisław August Poniatowski, 1732-1798 (Oxford: OUP, 1998)
The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792: A Political History (Oxford: OUP, 2012; longer Polish edition)
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795 (Yale University Press, 2020)
The Constitution of 3 May 1791: Testament of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Warsaw: Polish History Museum, 2021)
Lithuania: A Short History (Hurst Publishers, 2025)
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