Peter Davison (professor)

Peter Hobley Davison (born 1926), OBE, Ph.D., D.Litt., Hon. D. Arts, is research professor of English at De Montfort University, Leicester,[1] and emeritus professor of English at Glyndŵr University. Davison is considered an authority on the life and works of George Orwell. For a number of years until about 2010 he also took charge of the Speaker Programme for the Economic Research Council in London.

For other people named Peter Davison, see Peter Davison (disambiguation).

Life and career

Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he taught, and gained his Ph.D. at Sydney University. In 1992, he was president of the Bibliographical Society[2] and edited its journal, The Library, for 12 years. He received the Society's Gold Medal in 2003.[3]

In 1998, assisted by his wife, Sheila Davison, and Ian Angus[4] he edited the 20-volume The Complete Works of George Orwell (Secker & Warburg, 1998).[5]

In 2013, he edited Orwell's Diaries[6][7] and Orwell: A Life in Letters.[8]

Publications
  • George Orwell: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996)
  • The Complete Works of George Orwell (Secker & Warburg, 1998) ISBN 0 436 20377 4
  • The Lost Orwell (Timewell Press, 2007) ISBN 978-1857252149
  • George Orwell: A Life in Letters (Penguin, 2011)
gollark: I don't like it. We use a BT router with that "feature" at home and I cannot figure out how to turn it off and it *annoys me slightly*.
gollark: Self-driving cars should probably not be using the mobile/cell network just for communicating with nearby cars, since it adds extra latency and complexity over some direct P2P thing, and they can't really do things which rely on constant high-bandwidth networking to the internet generally, since they need to be able to not crash if they go into a tunnel or network dead zone or something.
gollark: My problem isn't *that* (5G apparently has improvements for more normal frequencies anyway), but that higher bandwidth and lower latency just... isn't that useful and worth the large amount of money for most phone users.
gollark: Personally I think 5G is pointless and overhyped, but eh.
gollark: It's a house using some sort of sci-fi-looking engines to take off, superimposed on the text "5G", with "London," and "is in the house." above and below it respectively.

References
  1. The Orwell Diaries. Penguin UK At Google Books. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  2. "Past presidents" Official website. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  3. "Gold Medalists" Official website. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  4. "The Troubled History Behind George Orwell's Complete Works" Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  5. "Orwell's every word" Times Higher Education. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  6. "Garden of Notes by Author of 'Animal Farm'" The New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  7. "Diaries, by George Orwell" The Guardian. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  8. https://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/welcome-from-peter-davison/
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