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    Professor Charles Townshend FBA

    Professor Charles Townshend FBA

    Title
    Professor Emeritus of International History
    Location
    CBB 1.059
    Phone
    01782 733208
    Email
    c.j.n.townshend@keele.ac.uk

    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

    • Townshend CJN. 2005. Arthur Griffith. In ODNB. Oxford University Press.
    • TOWNSHEND CJN. 2005. Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion. Allen Lane.
    • Townshend CJN. 2005. Introduction. In The oxford history of modern war. Oxford University Press.
    • TOWNSHEND CJN. 2004. 'Religion, War, and Identity in Ireland'. The Journal of Modern History, 882-902, vol. 76(4). doi>
    • TOWNSHEND CJN. 2002. '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>

    Full Publications Listshow

    Books

    • TOWNSHEND CJN. 2005. Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion. Allen Lane.
    • TOWNSHEND CJN. 2002. Terrorism: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press.

    Journal Articles

    • TOWNSHEND CJN. 2004. 'Religion, War, and Identity in Ireland'. The Journal of Modern History, 882-902, vol. 76(4). doi>
    • TOWNSHEND CJN. 2002. '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>
    • Townshend C and Maguire L. 2002. Terrorism and democracy in Britain and Ireland. La Democratie ua Royaume - Uni au Xxe siecle, 110-132.

    Chapters

    • Townshend CJN. 2005. Arthur Griffith. In ODNB. Oxford University Press.
    • Townshend CJN. 2005. Introduction. In The oxford history of modern war. Oxford University Press.
    • Towshend CJN. 2002. Historiography: telling the Irish revolution. In The Irish Revolution 1913-1923. Augusteijn J (Ed.). Palgrave, London.

    School of Humanities
    Chancellor's Building
    Keele University
    Staffordshire
    ST5 5AA
    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