Howard, Michael, 1922-2019

Michael Howard was a military historian who established war studies as a fit subject for university study. He founded the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London in 1962. In 1968 he returned to Oxford, where had read history, to take up a Fellowship at All Souls. He was appointed Chichele Professor of the History of War in 1977 and Regius Professor of Modern History three years later. On his retirement from Oxford in 1989 he became the first Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, finally retiring in 1993.

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