Peter H. Wilson

Peter Hamish Wilson (* 1963 ) is a British historian . Since 2015 he holds the Chichele Chair of Military History at All Souls College of the University of Oxford .

Life

Wilson studied at the University of Liverpool (BA (Hons)) and at Jesus College of the University of Cambridge (Ph.D.). He specialized in German history and military history.

In 1990 he became a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Sunderland and in 1994 at Newcastle University . In 1998 he returned to Sunderland as a reader, where he was Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sunderland from 2001 to 2006. From 2007 to 2015 he was a Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull . In 2011 he was a visiting fellow at the Cluster of Excellence at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He had in 2011 at more teaching duties High Point University in High Point, North Carolina and the National War College in Washington, DC in 2015, he followed Hew Strachan on the Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College of the University of Oxford .

From 2002 to 2010, together with Michael Schaich, he organized workshops for the German History Society at the German Historical Institute in London (DHIL). He was also co-curator of exhibitions: 1998 at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle (subject: “Africa in the European Imagination”) and 2012 at the Neues Palais in Potsdam (subject: “Great Britain, America and the Atlantic World”).

He belongs u. a. the Editorial Advisory Boards of the following journals: International History Review (2006–2010), War & Society and the British Journal for Military History .

Wilson is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).

Awards (selection)

• 2009: Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year for The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
• 2011: Distinguished Book Awards, Society for Military History for The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

Fonts (selection)

• War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677–1793 (= Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History ). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-47302-0 .
• German armies. War and German politics, 1648-1806 . UCL Press, London 1998, ISBN 1-85728-106-3 .
• Absolutism in Central Europe (= Historical Connections Series ). Routledge, London 2000, ISBN 0-415-23351-8 .
• From Reich to revolution. German history, 1558–1806 . Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills 2004, ISBN 0-333-65244-4 .
• (Ed.): 1848. The Year of Revolutions (= International Library of Essays in Political History ). Ashgate, Aldershot 2006, ISBN 978-0-7546-2569-8 .
• (Ed.): Warfare in Europe 1815-1914 (= International Library of Military History ). Ashgate, Aldershot 2006, ISBN 978-0-7546-2478-3 .
• (Ed.): A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe . Blackwell, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-1-4051-3947-2 .
• (Ed.): With Alan Forrest: The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the end of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806 . Palgrave, Basingstoke 2009, ISBN 978-0-230-00893-9 .
• Europe's Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years War . Allen Lane, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-193780-9 .
  • German: The Thirty Years War. A European tragedy . Translated from the English by Thomas Bertram, Tobias Gabel and Michael Haupt. Theiss, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-806236286 .
• (Ed.): The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook . Palgrave, Basingstoke 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-24205-0 .
• with Robert Evans (ed.): The Holy Roman Empire, 1495–1806: A European Perspective . Brill, Leiden 2012, ISBN 978-90-04-20683-0 .
• The Holy Roman Empire. A Thousand Years of Europe's History. Allen Lane, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-84614-318-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter H. Wilson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Peter H. Wilson  in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Peter H. Wilson" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Peter Wilson at Oxford University
• Peter H. Wilson at the University of Hull