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Professor Charles Townshend FBA

Modern British and Irish history; the history of war, particularly political violence, and terrorism, public security, emergency powers and counter-insurgency in Ireland and Palestine under British rule

Elected 2008

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2008
Sections
Modern History from 1850
Website
https://www.keele.ac.uk/humanities/study/history/ourpeople/charlestownshend/

Current post

Professor Emeritus of International History, Keele University

Past appointments

Keele University Professor Emeritus of International History, Keele University

2014 -

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow

1991 - 1992

National Humanities Center Fellow

1987 - 1988

Keele University Professor of International History, Keele University

1987 - 2014

Publications

Political Violence in Ireland (Oxford University Press) 1983

Making the Peace (Oxford University Press) 19963

Easter 1916 2005

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