Hew Strachan

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Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan (born September 1, 1949 in Edinburgh ) is a British military historian . From 2002 to 2015 he was Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford, since then he has been Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews .

Life

Strachan initially worked in civil shipping . He then studied at Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge . After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (1971), he worked in the antique business until he obtained a Master of Arts in 1975.

He was then a Research Fellow and from 1978 to 1979 Senior Lecturer for War Studies and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . From 1979 to 1992 he was a fellow at Corpus Christi College. Strachan was Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow from 1992 to 2000 . There he headed the Scottish Center for War Studies from 1996 to 2001. From 2002-2015 he was Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College of Oxford University . From 2004 to 2012 he was also director of the Oxford Leverhulme Program on the Changing Character of War. Since 2015 he has been Professor of International Relations at the Handa Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

In 1995 he was Lees Knowles Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and in 2002 guest speaker at the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives at King's College London . In addition, he has been Visiting Professor at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy in Trondheim (Norway) since 2000 and was Sir Howard Kippenberger Professor at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) in 2009 and Humanitas Visiting Professor in War Studies at the University in 2011 of Cambridge .

Strachan, who is the brigadier of the Royal Company of Archers , is considered an internationally recognized scientist for the First World War . He has published several books on the subject and a DVD for Channel 4 . He is also a member of various commissions and organizations: in 2008 he became a member of the Advisory Board of the Defense Academy of the United Kingdom , 2010 Trustee of the Imperial War Museum and 2011 Specialist Advisor of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies . In 2012 he was appointed to the National Committee for the Centenary of the First World War. In 1994 he was the founding editor of War in History magazine .

He has received multiple grants and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , the Royal Historical Society and, since 2017, the British Academy .

Strachan is married and has two children.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • European armies and the conduct of war . Routledge, London, 1983, ISBN 0-415-07863-6 .
  • Wellington's legacy: the reform of the British army . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1984, ISBN 0-7190-0994-4 .
  • From Waterloo to Balaclava . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1985, ISBN 0-521-30439-3 .
  • The Politics of the British Army . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-19-820670-4 .
  • The First World War . Volume 1: To Arms . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, ISBN 0-19-926191-1 .
  • The First World War: a new illustrated history . Simon & Schuster, London 2003, ISBN 0-7432-3960-1 .
  • Clausewitz's On War: a Biography . Atlantic Monthly Press, London 2007, ISBN 0-87113-956-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research. British Academy , July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Strachan, Hew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strachan, Hew Francis Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British military historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh