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.

Publications

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)

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