David A. McLean has been professor of history at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

since 1999. He joined King's in 1978 after having been a Draper's Research Fellow at

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 ...

since 1973. McLean received his BA from the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hull ...

and his MA and Ph.D. from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

.The Victorian Era.
History in Focus. Retrieved 21 May 2015. McLean was visiting professor at

Hiroshima Shudo University is a private university in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima, Japan. The predecessor of the school, Hiroshima Domain's Han school, was founded in 1725. It was chartered as a junior college in 1952 and became a four-year college in 1960. ...

in 2002 and at

Nihon University , abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice (Japan), Minister of Justice, in 1889. ...

in 1985. His research interests include the economic and

diplomatic history Diplomatic history deals with the history of international relations between states. Diplomatic history can be different from international relations in that the former can concern itself with the foreign policy of one state while the latter deals ...

of modern Britain, educational development in nineteenth century British schools, and the

history of medicine The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies. More than just histo ...

.Professor David McLean.
King's College London. Retrieved 21 May 2015.

Selected publications

*"Protecting wood and killing germs: 'Burnett's Liquid' and the origins of the preservative and disinfectant industries in early Victorian Britain", ''

Business History Business history is a historiographical field which examines the history of firms, business methods, government regulation and the effects of business on society. It also includes biographies of individual firms, executives, and entrepreneurs. ...

'', 52 (2), pp. 285–305. *''Surgeons of the Fleet: The Royal Navy and Its Medics from Trafalgar to Jutland'', I.B.Tauris, 2010. *''Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform: Cholera, the State and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain''. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. *"Surgeons of the Opium War: The Navy on the China Coast, 1840-42", ''

English Historical Review ''The English Historical Review'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1886 and published by Oxford University Press (formerly Longman). It publishes articles on all aspects of history – British, European, and wo ...

'', CXXI (491), pp. 487–504. *''Education and Empire: Naval Tradition and England's Elite Society''. British Academic Press, 1998. *''War, Diplomacy and Informal Empire and the Republics of La Plata, 1836-1853''. I.B.Tauris, 1994.

References

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