Andrew Lambert

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Andrew Lambert (2014)

Andrew David Lambert (born December 31, 1956 in Norfolk ) is a British naval historian. He is particularly concerned with 19th century British naval history.

Lambert taught at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst and since 1991 in the Department of War Studies at King's College London . In 1999 he was appointed to the Chair of Naval History and has been the Laughton Professor of Naval History since 2001 .

He was Honorary Secretary of the Navy Records Society from 1996 to 2005 and edited the letters and essays of John Knox Laughton , one of its founders, in 2002 . He also wrote his biography. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society .

He wrote a biography of Nelson , books about the Crimean War and the British-American War at Sea, the first ocean-going ironclad HMS Warrior and the conversion of the Royal Navy to steamships.

In 2004 he presented the TV series War at Sea at the BBC .

Fonts

  • Battleships in Transition: the creation of the Steam Battlefleet 1815-1960, Annapolis: Naval Institute Press 1984
  • with Denis Griffiths, Fred Walker: Brunel ’s ships, London: Chatham Pub., National Maritime Museum 1999
  • The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-1856, Manchester University Press 1990, 2nd edition, Ashgate 2011
  • The Last Sailing Battlefleet: Maintaining Naval Master 1815-1850, London: Conway Maritime Press 1991
  • The Foundations of Naval History: John Knox Laughton, the Royal Navy and the Historical Profession, Chatham Publ. 1998
  • War at Sea in the Age of Sail, New York: Collins, Washington DC: Smithsonian 2000 (Cassel's History of Warfare)
  • Nelson: Britannia's God of War, Faber and Faber 2005
  • Admirals, Faber and Faber 2009
  • The gates of hell: Sir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage, Yale University Press 2009
  • Franklin: tragic hero of polar navigation, London, Faber and Faber 2009
  • HMS Warrior 1860: Victoria's ironclad deterrent, Annapolis: Naval Institute Press 2010
  • Editors: Letters and papers of Professor Sir John Knox Laughton, 1830–1915, Navy Records Society, Ashgate, 2002
  • Trincomalee: the last of Nelson's frigate, Annapolis: Naval Institute Press 2002
  • The challenge: America, Britain and the War of 1812, London: Faber and Faber 2012
  • Publisher: Naval history 1850-present, 2 volumes, Ashgate 2007
  • Editor with Robert Blyth, Jan Rüger: The Dreadnought and the Edwardian age, Ashgate 2011
  • Sea power and history - the development of sea power in imperial Germany, in: Jürgen Elvert, Sigurd Hess, Heinrich Walle (editor) Maritime Economy in Germany: Shipping -Werften- Trade - Sea power in the 19th and 20th centuries , historical messages of the Ranke- Gesellschaft, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2012, pp. 190–209

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SURNAME Lambert, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lambert, Andrew David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British naval historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Norfolk