{{Short description|British historian}} {{Infobox academic | name = Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Richard Butterwick | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1968}} | birth_place = Hitchin, England | citizenship = | other_names = | occupation = Historian | known_for = Polish history, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth studies | spouse = Wioletta Pawlikowska | children = | awards = {{plainlist| * Bronze medal, Gloria Artis (2016) }} | education = {{plainlist| * BA (Hons) in History (University of Cambridge) * MA (University of Cambridge) * DPhil. (University of Oxford) }} | alma_mater = University of Oxford | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = R. J. W. Evans | academic_advisors = | discipline = History | sub_discipline = {{plainlist| * Polish history * History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * 18th-century European history }} | workplaces = {{plainlist| * School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University College London) * University of Warsaw }} | notable_works = {{plainlist| * ''Poland's Last King and English Culture'' * ''The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church'' * ''The Constitution of 3 May 1791'' }} | website = {{Academia|url=https://ucl.academia.edu/RichardButterwickPawlikowski|name=Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski}} | years_active = }} '''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.<ref name="UCL">{{Cite web |title=University College London |url=https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/2713-richard-butterwickpawlikowski |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=profiles.ucl.ac.uk}}</ref>
His book ''The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1733-1795: Light and Flame'' won the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America's Oskar Halecki Award in 2021 and the Polish Historical Society's Pro Historia Polonorum prize in 2022. The Polish edition is longer.
Butterwick was awarded the bronze medal Gloria Artis for his services to Polish culture in 2016. In March 2022, he became principal historian of the Polish History Museum in Warsaw. In 2024 he was created professor of the humanities by the president of the Republic of Poland.<ref name="College of Europe">{{Cite web |title=Richard BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI {{!}} Coleurope |url=https://www.coleurope.eu/whoswho/person/richard.butterwick-pawlikowski |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=www.coleurope.eu}}</ref>
===Personal life=== He married Wioletta Pawlikowska in Poland in 2012.<ref name="Hertford">{{cite journal |title=2013-2014 |journal=Hertford College Magazine |volume=94 |page=90 |url=https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HC-magazine-94-2014_ws-1.pdf |access-date=26 December 2024}}</ref>
==Books== * ''Poland's Last King and English Culture: Stanisław August Poniatowski, 1732-1798'' (Oxford: OUP, 1998, {{ISBN|978-0198207016}}) * ''The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792: A Political History'' (Oxford: OUP, 2012, {{ISBN|978-0199250332}}; longer Polish edition) * ''The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795'' (Yale University Press, 2020, {{ISBN|978-0300252200}}) * ''The Constitution of 3 May 1791: Testament of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth'' (Warsaw: Polish History Museum, 2021, [https://polishhistory.pl/the-constitution-of-3-may-1791/ Link]) * ''Lithuania: A Short History'' (Hurst Publishers, 2025, {{ISBN|978-1911723608}})
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRYVkWX6FuM Europe's First Constitution. A guide to why 3 May 1791 matters]. Lecture by Richard Butterwick, 2021, Polish Cultural Institute in London *[https://www.coleurope.eu/exploring-europes-past-understand-its-future-interview-professor-richard-butterwick-pawlikowski Interview] with Richard Butterwick, College of Europe
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