Professor Anita J Prazmowska

Professor Prażmowska’s main area of research is contemporary Polish history, focusing on foreign relations.

Her publications are as follows Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front, 1939, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987), Britain and Poland 1939-1943. The Betrayed Ally, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995).Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War, (Macmillan Press Ltd, Basingstoke, 2000). History of Poland, (Palgrave,/Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, second edition in 2011). Civil War in Poland, (Palgrave/Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004). Ignacy Paderewski. Poland, Makers of the Modern World. The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath series, (Haus Histories, London, 2009). French language edition published by Les Éditions Noir Sur Blanc, 2014. Poland. A Modern History, (I.B. Tauris, London, 2010). Paperback edition 2012. Władysław Gomułka. A Biography, I.B. Tauris Communist Lives series, I.B.Tauris, London, 2016) Polish language translation edition by RM, Warsaw in 2016.

Professor Prażmowska was the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2016-2018 for work on Polish relations with Angola 1976-1989. A manuscript on this subject has been submitted for publication.

Her most recent research has been on Polish-Libyan relations.

Areas of expertise: Poland, History, International Relations, Politics, Eastern Europe, Europe, Wars, International Conflicts, Archival and document based research.