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Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA

European military history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and especially the First World War; modern strategic studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017
Sections
Modern History from 1850 , Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
Website
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/staff/hs1.html

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

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

Re-thinking remembrance

Great Thinkers: Hew Strachan FBA on Michael Howard FBA

Publications

The Direction of War: contemporary strategy in historical perspective

Hew Strachan - Published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press

Clausewitz's 'On War': a biography

Hew Strachan - Published in 2007 by Atlantic Books

Financing the First World War

Hew Strachan - Published in 2004 by Oxford University Press

The Outbreak of the First World War

Hew Strachan - Published in 2004 by Oxford University Press

The First World War: A New Illustrated History

Hew Strachan - Published in 2003 by Simon and Schuster

The First World War, Volume One: To Arms

Hew Strachan - Published in 2001 by Oxford University Press

The Politics of the British Army

Hew Strachan - Published in 1997 by Oxford University Press

From Waterloo to Balaclava. Tactics, Technology and the British Army 1815-1854

Hew Strachan - Published in 1985 by Cambridge University Press

Wellington's Legacy. The Reform of the British Army 1830-54

Hew Strachan - Published in 1984 by Manchester University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Lord Nick Stern of Brentford FBA

India; climate change; economic development and growth; economic theory; economics; government; public policy and the role of the state and economies in transition;tax reform

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Professor Penny Summerfield FBA

Modern British social, cultural and gender history, with a focus on the Second World War; theory and method of the uses of personal narratives as historical sources

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Professor Mark Harrison FBA

Economic history of Russia and the Soviet Union; the two world wars; defence and security; fighting, cheating, stealing, lying and spying

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