John Childs

John Charles Roger Childs (born June 21, 1949 ) is a British historian .

Childs studied at the University of Hull (BA) and King's College London , where he received his Ph.D. on the standing army of the Stuart Restoration ; JP Kenyon suggested the subject, with Ian Roy chairing it. He then worked in the defense industry and was a Sir James Knott Research Fellow at Newcastle University . From 1976 to 2009 he taught at the University of Leeds , where he was most recently Professor of Military History and Head of the Center for Military History . Since then he has been an emeritus professor.

His main research interests are the history of the British Army from 1660 to 1702 (published as a trilogy ), the Stuart Restoration and European military history of the early modern period . Childs published numerous monographs and articles, especially on the Glorious Revolution (1688/89). He is also Associate Editor of the New Dictionary of National Biography (NDNB) and, together with the French André Corvisier, editor of the English lexicon edition A Dictionary of Military History and the Art of War .

He was u. a. Advisor to the Ministry of Defense and Trustee of the Royal Armories , he is currently Chairman of the Battlefields Panel of English Heritage and the Royal Armories Development Trust. Childs was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society .

Fonts (selection)

• The army of Charles II (= Studies in social history ). University of Toronto Press, Buffalo 1976, ISBN 0-8020-2180-8 .
• The army, James II, and the Glorious Revolution . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1980, ISBN 0-7190-0688-0 .
• Armies and warfare in Europe, 1648–1789 . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1982, ISBN 0-7190-0880-8 .
• The British army of William III, 1689-1702 . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1987, ISBN 0-7190-1987-7 .
• The Nine Years' War and the British Army, 1688-1697 . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1991, ISBN 0-7190-3461-2 .
• with André Corvisier (Ed.): A dictionary of military history and the art of war . Revised and expanded English edition, Blackwell, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0-631-16848-6 .
• The military use of land. A history of the defense estate . Lang, Bern 1998, ISBN 978-3-906757-66-7 .
• Warfare in the seventeenth century . Cassell, London 2001, ISBN 0-304-35289-6 .
• The Williamite wars in Ireland, 1688–1691 . Hambledon Continuum Press, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-85285-573-4 .
• General Percy Kirke and the later Stuart army . Bloomsbury Academic, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-4411-5882-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about John Childs in the catalog of the German National Library
• John Childs at the University of Leeds