I graduated with a PhD in History from the University of York in 1999 and was awarded the British International History Group Thesis Prize in 2000. I have taught at the Universities of York and Liverpool. I am currently Senior Lecturer in History, War Studies and American Studies having joined York St John University in 2011.
I have broad teaching experience in the British, US and wider international history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
My research interests encompass political, economic and military history with a particular focus on British and US history in the period surrounding the Great Depression and the two World Wars. My most recent publications explore the scientific and mathematical bases of British performance in twentieth century conflicts in international context. My earlier publications investigated the performance of the British and US economies in the interwar period and the economic and financial basis of Anglo-American relations in the re-armament period before the outbreak of war in 1939. I also published the first academic article addressing the 1942 Baedeker Raid on York.
I am a founder member of the York Historical Warfare Analysis Group (YHWAG) and with colleagues I have recently formed a research link with the York Cold War Bunker, an English Heritage institution. I have also appeared on TV and Radio.
TV appearances
BBC1, The One Show, 14 September 2010: ‘The Baedeker Blitz’.
