John Charles Roger Childs FRHS (born June 1949) is

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at the

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Early life and education

John Childs was born in June 1949. He studied at the

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, from which he received the degree of BA, and at

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, from which he received a

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with a thesis on the standing army of the

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Academic career

Childs first worked in the defence industry before becoming Sir James Knott Research Fellow at

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. From 1976 to 2009 he taught at the

, initially as a

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in the School of History and later as

and head of the Centre for Military History. He subsequently became Emeritus Professor. His research interests include 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 has published numerous monographs and contributions, in particular the Glorious Revolution (1688/89). He is co-author with André Corvisier of ''A dictionary of military history and the art of war''. Childs is chairman of the Battlefields Panel of

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, chairman of the Royal Armouries Development Trust, and a former trustee of the

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Selected publications

* ''The army of Charles II''.

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, Buffalo 1976, . * ''The army, James II, and the Glorious Revolution''.

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, Manchester, 1980. * ''Armies and warfare in Europe, 1648–1789''. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1982. * ''The British army of William III, 1689–1702''. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1987. * ''The Nine Years' War and the British army, 1688–1697''. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1991. * ''A dictionary of military history and the art of war''. Blackwell, Oxford 1994. (Edited and updated version of the original in French by André Corvisier) . * ''The military use of land. A history of the defence estate''. Lang, Bern, 1998. * ''Warfare in the seventeenth century''. Cassell, London, 2001. * ''The Williamite wars in Ireland, 1688–1691''. Hambledon Continuum Press, London, 2007. * ''General Percy Kirke and the later Stuart army''. Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2014.

References

Living people 1949 births Academics of the University of Leeds Alumni of the University of Hull Alumni of King's College London Fellows of the Royal Historical Society English military historians {{England-historian-stub