Simon Mark Pepper is emeritus professor of

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at the

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. He is a specialist in late medieval and early modern

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Career

Pepper is professor of architecture at the University of Liverpool. He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is a specialist in late medieval and early modern military architecture and has been on the editorial board of '' Fort: The International Journal of Military Architecture'' since 1997.Prof Simon Pepper.
University of Liverpool. Retrieved 21 November 2015. Pepper is a fellow of the

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Selected publications

*''Firearms and fortifications: Military architecture and siege warfare in Sixteenth Century Siena''.

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, 1986. (With Nicholas Adams) *"Sword and spade: Military construction in renaissance Italy", in '' Construction History'', 16, 2000. pp. 13–22. ISSN 0267-7768 *''Books, buildings and social engineering: Early public libraries in Britain from past to present''. Ashgate, 2009. (With Alistair Black and Kaye Bagshaw) *"Warfare and Operational Art: Communications, Cannon and Small War" in Tallett, Frank and Trim, David, eds. ''European Warfare 1350-1750''.

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, Cambridge, 2010. pp. 181–202.

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