My academic publishing to December 2022 through international academic publisher Peter Lang. Linguistics, Archaeology and Education

Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics - 54 volumes

(Including the sub-series Literary and Cultural Stylistics

Studies in Historical Linguistics - 9 volumes

Studies in the British Mesolithic and Neolithic - 3 volumes

Studies in European Archaeology - 1 volume

Digital Learning and the Future- 1 volume

PLUS an inherited series English Corpus Linguistics - 20 volumes

The Sunday Telegraph 7th February 2021 has published an article on my literary criticism of Billy Bunter: Academic says the fictional character would be a more relatable hero for youngsters because of his imperfections. My original articles are in Literary Encyclopedia, on Billy Bunter and on author Charles Hamilton. 

My articles published by Literary Encyclopedia on Billy Bunter and author Charles Hamilton (Frank Richards). 

 

Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics has published volume XIII for 2020. 

 My article on Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, published in Literary Encyclopedia. 

Bede's Death Song

 

My article "Bede's Death Song" published in The Literary Encyclopedia. I make the point that the song is not in fact by Bede but is somewhat earlier than his death in AD735.

Recent Validations

For University of Surrey and University of East London.

Three new entries for Literary Encyclopedia:

Hugh Lofting (literary biography)
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Five on a Treasure Island

Joined the editorial board for Studies in Linguistics and Literature.

Engaged now or recently in validation work for University of Lancaster (Blackpool and the Fylde College), University of Surrey (University Centre Farnborough), University of Aberdeen and University of Chichester (ESE Milan).

Article: J R R Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham, published in The Literary Encyclopedia.

My article on "The Owl and the Nightingale" has been published by The Literary Encyclopedia. I'm convinced the poem was composed after the death of Henry III and before the coronation of Edward I, so 1272-1274.

Paper The Languages of Blick Mead in the Mesolithic and Neolithic given at Amesbury History Centre Friday 5th October 2018.

Four Harry Potter articles by me published in
The Literary Encyclopedia:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Dennison Research Grant

Awarded a Dennison Research Grant in connection with the Blick Mead Stonehenge excavation. The research funds are a benefaction by economist Prof Stanley Dennison (1912-1992). 

Published by The Literary Encyclopedia, my articles on Tom Brown's Schooldays and its author Thomas Hughes.

 

Blick Mead: Exploring the 'First Place' in the Stonehenge Landscape

The first volume in the new academic monograph series "Studies in the British Mesolithic and Neolithic" (series edited by David Jacques and Graeme Davis) has been published. The Blick Mead dig of this project is Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year 2018.

I that in heill wes and gladnes

My article on William Dunbar's "Lament for the Makaris" published by Literary Encyclopedia.

My article "Arthur Ransome's 'Swallows and Amazons'" published 24th February 2018 by
The Literary Encyclopedia.

My article on William Dunbar's Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins "Off Februar the fyiftene nycht" published by The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 November 2017. 

   
 My Stonehenge MOOC is available here.

"Brexit" speeds into the global lexicon

The Sunday Times has written an article for the OU's Open Learn. "Brexit is both an English language phenomenon and a global language phenomenon".

The Language of Brexit

Article on the etymology of the word "Brexit" published by OpenLearn, January 2017.

Mesolithic Sussex Flint

The Mesolithic flint I found at Arlington, now entered in the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. Described as "A fragment of flint bladelet, possibly a piece of debitage or an unfinished microlith blank, Mesolithic, 8000-4500BC. The tertiary flake has been truncated at the proximal end, removing the bulb of percussion though, the rippling remains visible on the ventral side. The dorsal side is marked by a longitudinal ridge created by previous flake removals to either side. There is no retouch present on the object, though there is some damage to the edges of the flake."

"Harry Potter. El misterio de un éxito irresistible", La Nacion Domingo 25 de Septeimbre 2016.

"Probablemente Rowling acertó en el equilibrio entre un mundo suficientemente familiar para que los chicos lo entiendan -la escuela- y un mundo suficientemente diferente para que resulte excitante: el Colegio Hogwarts de Magia y Hechicería", apunta el lingüista Graeme Davis, profesor de Humanidades en la Universidad de Buckingham, Gran Bretaña. "También acierta Rowling al no mostrar una actitud protectora y superior frente a sus lectores. Hay cuestiones morales difíciles en las novelas de Harry Potter, especialmente en las últimas, y los adolescentes las valoran. Quizás lo atractivo sea la progresión de las novelas a medida que Harry crece, porque presentan un lenguaje y temas más complejos que incitan a los niños a leer cosas que no son propias de su edad", reflexiona el especialista en literatura inglesa y autor de dos libros sobre Harry Potter... 

University of Buckingham links with Fara Heim

University of Buckingham has agreed a link with Icelandic-Canadian explorers Fara Heim to investigate the history and archaeology of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait. Graeme Davis is a project advisor for Fara Heim.

Stonehenge may be mentioned in 8th Century poem

BBC News 20 October 2014

An 8th Century poem, thought to have been written about Bath, could be the oldest surviving text to describe Stonehenge, an academic has claimed.

Mediaeval language expert Dr Graeme Davis said the poem could pre-date a previous text by several hundred years.

The poem, called The Ruin, mentions stones called "the old ones" or the "elders" and describes a warm spring similar to one found at Blick Mead.

Nearby Amesbury was recently named the oldest continuous settlement in the UK.

The town, including Stonehenge, has been continually occupied since 8820BC, experts have found.

The Dialect of Our Sussex Ancestors

Article by Graeme Davis
published in Sussex Family Historian
March 2016.

Arthur Ransome and the dialect of Norfolk

Article published in Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics 8 (2015), 79-98. University of Buckingham publication of the week. Reviewed The Times 4th January 2016, including editorial.

Academic journals edited by Graeme Davis and Karl Bernhardt are available here:

Journal of Language and Linguistics;
Journal of Language and Learning;
Journal of Language and Literature;
Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics.

Selected Poems of the Russian Symbolists: Bryusov, Akhmatova and Mandelstam. Three eBook shorts.

Three Kindle eBooks:

Nine Poems of Valery Bryusov (Selected Poems of the Russian Symbolists: Bryusov, Akhmatova and Mandelstam).
 
Fifteen Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Selected Poems of the Russian Symbolists: Bryusov, Akhmatova and Mandelstam).
 
Eleven Poems of Osip Mandelstam (Selected Poems of the Russian Symbolists: Bryusov, Akhmatova and Mandelstam).

The Origin of Surnames

Guest lecture at the Society of Genealogists, 20th April 2013, within the conference "Medieval Genealogy".

Eight Titles by Graeme Davis Published through Amazon KDP

Historical Perspectives on the Development of English: The History of the English Language in Seven Texts
(ASIN: B00BBFO4OG)

The Baird Letters - Letters of Gilbert Baird of Auchmedden
(ASIN: B00AUEYFZM)

Driver H Taylor’s “In Memory of Our Nigh...
(ASIN: B00AXZNE6E)

A Brit in Iceland
(ASIN: B00AUXUZ0M)

The Red Rag Vol 1 No 1 October 1916
(ASIN: B00AWVN9UA)

A Brit in Greenland
(ASIN: B00AUID93C)

A Literary Study of Andreas
(ASIN: B00ALIQ6ZE)

Mary Ann Beard's The Church Lane Ghost
(ASIN: B00ATHLFQW)

A Literary Study of Andreas

2012 Kindle book by Graeme Davis on the Anglo-Saxon poem Andreas, reprinting a 1988 University of St Andrews (Scotland) dissertation.

Historical Perspectives on the Development and Spread of English

Article by Graeme Davis published The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics volume V, 2012.

Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics

Volume 5 September 2012 now available.

Article "Vikings" published in Eastern Airways' Inflight Magazine, autumn 2012.

Re-Read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Book by Graeme Davis published June 2012

"Break That Brick Wall!"
Article by Graeme Davis in Family History Monthly 207 April 2012.

Your Family Tree Online and Research Your Surname and Your Family Tree
both now republished in Kindle editions.