Name:

Charles Townshend

Title:

Professor

Qualifications:

MA , DPhil (Oxon), FBA

Position:

Professor of International History

Room:

CBB1.059

Telephone:

(01782) 733208

Fax:

(01782) 583195

Email:

hia18@his.keele.ac.uk

Departmental Roles:

Director of Research

Subject Areas Taught:

Modern British and Irish history, history of war, imperialism, British rule in Palestine

Research Interests:

• Modern political terrorism

• The British Mandate in Palestine 1917- 48

Publications include:

Terrorism: A very short Introduction (Oxford 2002)

The State: Historical and Political Dimensions (Routledge, London 1999)

Ireland: the 20th Century. (Arnold, London 1998)

The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern War (Oxford University Press 1997)

Making the Peace: Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain. (Oxford University Press 1994)

Britain's Civil Wars. Counterinsurgency in the Twentieth Century (Faber, London 1986)

Political Violence in Ireland: Government and Resistance since 1848 (Oxford University Press, 1983)

Additional Information:

I would be willing to supervise postgraduates interested in the British in Palestine, and Modern Ireland.