Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA

European military history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and especially the First World War; modern strategic studies

Elected 2017

10-Minute Talks: War, revolution and pandemic 1918-19

15 Jul 2020 Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA

Professor Hew Strachan FBA, discusses the challenges the flu epidemic presents for the modern historian and provides some context for our own predicament today.

Current posts

University of St Andrews Wardlaw Professor of International Relations

2015 -

All Souls College, Oxford Emeritus Fellow

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Life Fellow

Past appointments

Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford

2002 - 2015

Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow

1992 - 2001

Fellow, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge

1979 - 1992

Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies and International Affairs, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst

1978 - 1979

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