Charles Iain Hamilton is a naval historian at the

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Early life

Hamilton took a BA at

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and a PhD at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1974 with a thesis on “The Royal Navy, Seapower, and the Screwship of the Line, 1845-1860”.

Academic career

He joined the

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, in 1982 as a lecturer in history and was promoted to associate professor. His particular research interests are in the British and French navies of the nineteenth century, naval administration, and the links between signals intelligence and naval operations during the Second World War.Biography on the Witwatersrand website

Publications

**Books * ''Anglo-French naval rivalry, 1840-1870'' (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1993). * ''The Making of the Modern

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: British Naval policy-making 1805-1927'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). **Edited Documents * "Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October–November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty , in ''The Naval Miscellany'', volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, (London:

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, London, 1984). * ''

Portsmouth Dockyard His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport). Portsmouth Naval Base is part of the city of Portsmouth; it is l ...

Papers, 1852-1869: From Wood to Iron, a Calendar'', compiled by C.I. Hamilton. (Winchester, Hampshire: Hampshire County Council, 2005). **Selected Journal Articles * "Seamen and Crime at the Cape, c.1860-1880", ''International Journal of Maritime History'', vol. 2, no. 1, (1989). * "The Childers Admiralty Reforms and the Nineteenth Century 'Revolution' in British Government", ''War in History'', vol. 5, no. 1, (1998), pp. 37–61. * "John Wilson Croker: patronage and clientage at the Admiralty, 1809-1857", ''Historical Journal'', vol. 43, no. 1, (2000). * “Expanding Naval Powers: Admiralty Private Secretaries and Private Offices, 1800–1945.” ''War in History'', Vol.10, no. 2 (2003), pp. 125–156 * “The Character and Organization of the Admiralty Operational Intelligence Centre during the Second World War.” ''War in History'', Vol.7, no.3, (2000), pp. 295–324. * “British Naval Policy, Policy-Makers and Financial Control, 1860–1945,” ''War in History'', Vol.12, no. 4, (2005), pp. 371–395

References

External sources

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Biography on the University of Witwatersrand website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Charles Iain Living people Academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Alumni of Keele University English naval historians Year of birth missing (living people)