Responsibilities

Administrative: Deputy Head of Department Academic Disability Co-Ordinator Exams Officer Year One Tutor Unit Leader: The Rise of Persecuting Society American Ordeal: The United States in the era of Civil War and Reconstruction Other Teaching: Europe in Turmoil 1900-1939 Constructing A New World: Early Modern Europe Europe, Nazism & War 1930-1950 Edwardian Britain & the First World War

Background

Research Interests European and American military history, 1450-1920 Nineteenth-century American social and political history, especially the Civil War and slavery Computer applications for Historians Genocide & persecution

Publications

Books: The Anglo-Scots Wars 1513-1550: A Military History (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1999), pp.290. Chapters in Books: 'Scotland in the Age of the Military Revolution, 1480-1560,' in Jeremy Crang, Edward Spiers & Matthew Strickland (Eds), A Military History of Scotland (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) 'Of Nimble Service: Technology, Equestrianism and the Cavalry Arm of Early Modern European Armies,' in Paul E. J. Hammer (Ed.), Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450-1660 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007) [reprinted from War and Society, 20 (2002), pp.1- 21] Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals: "Writing Horses into American Civil War History," War in History, 20 (April 2013), pp.160-181. 'Military Morality Transformed: Weapons and Soldiers on the Nineteenth-Century Battlefield,' Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 41 (2011), pp.565-590. '"Who Shall Say that the Days of Cavalry are Over?" The Revival of the Mounted Arm in Europe, 1853-1914,' War in History, 18 (2011), pp.5-32 "Scapegoat Arm: Twentieth-Century Cavalry in Anglophone Historiography," The Journal of Military History, 71 (2007), pp.37-74 "Douglas Haig and the Development of Twentieth-Century Cavalry, " Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, 28 (2003), pp.142-162 " ‘Of Nimble Service’: Technology, Equestrianism and the Cavalry Arm of Early Modern European Armies," War and Society, 20 (2002), pp.1- 21 "The Obsolescence of the Arme Blanche and Technological Determinism in British Military History," War in History, 9 (2002), pp.39-59   "To Cry ‘Home! Home!’: Mutiny, Morale and Indiscipline in Tudor Armies," The Journal of Military History, 65 (2001), pp.313-332 "Irish Ceatharnaigh in English Service, 1544-1550 and the development of ‘Gaelic Warfare’," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 78 (2000), pp.163-172 "Strategy and its Limits; The Anglo-Scots Wars 1480-1550," War in History, 6 (1999), pp.396-416 "Longbow and Hackbutt: Weapon Technology and Technology Transfer in Early Modern England," Technology and Culture, 40 (1999), pp.576-593 "In the Shadow of Flodden: Tactics, Technology and Scottish Military Effectiveness, 1513-1550," The Scottish Historical Review, 77 (1998), pp162-182 "An Army of Giants: Height and Medical Characteristics of Welsh Soldiers of the First World War," Archives: The Journal of the British Records Society, 22 (1997), pp.141-146 "The Army of Henry VIII: A Reassessment," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 75, (1997), pp.8-22 "Dissertations and Databases, The Historian As Software Engineer," ALT-J: The Journal of Learning Technology, 3 (1995), pp.48-52 "’Dai Bach Y Soldiwr’, The Welsh Soldier in the First World War," Llafur: The Journal of Welsh Labour History, 6 (1993), pp.94-105. Other Publications: 'War Horses: Black Beauties of the Western Front,' History Today, Vol.62, No.1 (2012) 'The Somali Civil War'; 'The Eritrea-Ethiopia Conflict (1997-2000)'; 'Longbow' and 'Crossbow' in Gordon Martel (Ed.), The Encyclopaedia of War (Blackwell: 2011) ‘Slave Resistance in the Antebellum South,’ History Review 59 (2007) 'J.E.B. Stuart: Soviet Cavalry Guru', World War II, Vol.22, No.5 (September, 2007) 'Testing the Mystery of the English,' MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Vol.19, No.3 (2007) ‘Was the American Civil War the first Modern War?’ History Review 56 (2006) ‘Henry VIII and Scotland,’ History Review 55 (2006) 'Warhorses of the US Civil War,’ History Today 55 (December 2005) ‘Bosworth’, ‘Flodden’, ‘Pavia’, ‘Panipat,’ in Jeremy Black (Ed.) The Seventy Great Battles in History (London: Thames & Hudson, 2005). ‘Edward Stanley, 1st Baron Monteagle,(1460?-1523)’, ‘Peter Whithorne (fl.1543-1563)’, ‘Sir Ralph Sadler, (1507-1587)’, ‘Sir George Bowes (1517-1556)’, ‘Sir William Molyneux (1483-1548)’ in New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) "Mesopotamia, 1914-1918", "The Great Italian Wars, 1494-1544", "The Valois-Habsburg Wars, 1529-1559", "Anglo-French Wars of the Sixteenth Century", Habsburg-Ottoman Wars 1614-1683", "Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba (1453-1515)" in Charles Messenger (Ed.), The Reader’s Guide to Military History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001) "Agincourt Massacre", "Assurance", "Ransom" and "Slavery" in Jonathan F.Vance (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2000) 'The Hospitallers’ War: The Orders of St John, 1914-1918", Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association, 57 (2000) Book and Software Reviews:   Alt-N: The Newsletter of the Society for Learning Technology Gender and History War in History The Journal of Interdisciplinary History The Journal of Military History Technology and Culture