Editing Bill Bryson (section)

===Honorary doctorates===
* Honorary Doctorate, The [[Open University]], 2002<ref name="utopia">{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/bill-bryson-visits-his-utopia-650507.html |title=Bill Bryson visits his utopia |date=7 May 2002 |work=The Independent |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909034522/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/bill-bryson-visits-his-utopia-650507.html |archive-date=2010-09-09}}</ref>
* Honorary Doctor of Civil Law, [[Durham University]], 2004
* Honorary Doctorate, [[Bournemouth University]], 2005<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 April 2008 |title=Bryson takes to 'Streets of Bournemouth' |url=http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/newsandevents/News/2008/april08/bryson_takes_to_streets_of_bournemouth.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005225021/http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/newsandevents/News/2008/april08/bryson_takes_to_streets_of_bournemouth.html |archive-date=5 October 2016 |access-date=16 July 2018 |publisher=Bournemouth University}}</ref>
* Honorary Doctorate, [[University of St Andrews]], 2005<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2005/title,42970,en.php |title=Honorary degrees 21st – 25th June |date=20 June 2005 |publisher=University of St Andrews |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818225318/https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2005/title,42970,en.php |archive-date=18 August 2016 |access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref>
* DLitt, [[University of Leeds]], 2005<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kershaw |first=Andy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n0DYv07-W5cC&q=Bill+bryson+leeds+university&pg=PA423 |title=No off Switch |date=4 October 2012 |publisher=Ebury |isbn=9780753541074}}</ref>
* Honorary Doctorate, [[University of Leicester]], 2009<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9XPx3VUr3s | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211110/u9XPx3VUr3s| archive-date=2021-11-10 | url-status=live|title=Bill Bryson – Honorary Degree |date=24 June 2009 |publisher=University of Leicester |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* Doctor of Humane Letters, [[Drake University]], 2009<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.drake.edu/president/historicalresources/honorarydegreesawardedbydrakeuniversity/ |title=Honorary Degrees Awarded by Drake University |publisher=Drake University}}</ref>
* Honorary Doctorate, [[King's College London]], 13 November 2012<ref>{{Cite news |title=Bill Bryson receives honorary doctorate |date=14 November 2012 |publisher=[[King's College London]] |quote=Bill Bryson OBE: the UK's highest-selling author of non-fiction, acclaimed as a science communicator, historian and man of letters.}}</ref>
* Honorary Doctorate, [[University of Westminster]], 2015<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://universitybusiness.co.uk/Article/bill-bryson-receives-honorary-doctorate |title=Bill Bryson receives Honorary Doctorate |date=26 July 2015 |publisher=University Business |access-date=16 July 2018}}</ref>
* Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, [[University of Iowa]], May 2016<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Tricia |date=12 May 2016 |title=Author Bill Bryson to receive honorary degree from UI |url=https://now.uiowa.edu/news/2016/05/author-bill-bryson-receive-honorary-degree-ui |access-date=5 April 2024 |work=[[Iowa Now]]}}</ref>
* Honorary Doctorate for services to literature, [[University of Winchester]], October 2016<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.winchester.ac.uk/newsandevents/Pages/University-of-Winchester-honours-prominent-figures-at-Graduation-2016.aspx |title=University of Winchester honours prominent figures at Graduation 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104092215/http://www.winchester.ac.uk/newsandevents/Pages/University-of-Winchester-honours-prominent-figures-at-Graduation-2016.aspx |archive-date=4 January 2017 |access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref>