Biography
Fellow National Humanities Center (1987 - 1988)
Fellow Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1991 - 1992)
Professor Emeritus of International History, Keele University (2014 - )
Research and scholarship
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.
Teaching
- Modern British and Irish history
- history of war
- imperialism
- British rule in Palestine
I would be willing to supervise postgraduates interested in the British in Palestine, and Modern Ireland.
The Republic : the fight for Irish independence, 1918-1923 (Allen Lane, 2013)
Desert hell : the British invasion of Mesopotamia (Cambridge, 2011)
When God made hell : the British campaign in Mesopotamia and the creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 (Faber, 2010)
Selected Publications
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Arthur Griffith. In ODNB. Oxford University Press.2005.
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Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion. Allen Lane.2005.
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Introduction. In The oxford history of modern war. Oxford University Press.2005.
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'Religion, War, and Identity in Ireland'. The Journal of Modern History, 882-902, vol. 76(4). doi>2004.
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'Going to the Wall: the Failure of British Rule in Palestine, 1928-31'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 25-52, vol. 30(2). doi>2002.
Full Publications Listshow
Books
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Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion. Allen Lane.2005.
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Terrorism: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press.2002.
Journal Articles
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'Religion, War, and Identity in Ireland'. The Journal of Modern History, 882-902, vol. 76(4). doi>2004.
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'Going to the Wall: the Failure of British Rule in Palestine, 1928-31'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 25-52, vol. 30(2). doi>2002.
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Terrorism and democracy in Britain and Ireland. La Democratie ua Royaume - Uni au Xxe siecle, 110-132.2002.
Chapters
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Arthur Griffith. In ODNB. Oxford University Press.2005.
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Introduction. In The oxford history of modern war. Oxford University Press.2005.
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Historiography: telling the Irish revolution. In The Irish Revolution 1913-1923. Augusteijn J (Ed.). Palgrave, London.2002.
School of Humanities
Chancellor's Building
Keele University
Staffordshire
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Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733109
Head of School
Dr Nick Seager
Room: CBB1.038 (Chancellor's Building, 'B' Extension)
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733142
Email: n.p.seager@keele.ac.uk
School and college outreach
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 734009
Email: outreach@keele.ac.uk