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Andrew Lambert (born 31 December 1956) is a British naval historian, who since 2001 has been the Laughton Professor of Naval History in the
Department of War Studies, King's College London
The Department of War Studies (DWS) is an academic department in the School of Security Studies within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King's College London in London, United Kingdom. Along with other politics and international ...
.
Academic career
After completing his doctoral research, Lambert was lecturer in modern international history at
Bristol Polytechnic
The University of the West of England (also known as UWE Bristol) is a public research university, located in and around Bristol, England.
The institution was know as the Bristol Polytechnic in 1970; it received university status in 1992 and ...
from 1983 until 1987; consultant in the Department of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, from 1987 until 1989; senior lecturer in war studies at the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from 1989 until 1991; senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London from 1996 until 1999, then professor of naval history, from 1999 until 2001; and then Laughton Professor of Naval History,
and Director of the
Laughton Unit
The Laughton Unit aughton Naval History Unitis a research unit which conducts research and teaching on naval history, theory and maritime strategy.
History
The Laughton Naval History Unit was launched in 2001 by Professor Andrew Lambert.
The La ...
.
He served as Honorary Secretary of the
Navy Records Society
The Navy Records Society was established in 1893 as a scholarly text publication society to publish historical documents relating to the history of the Royal Navy. Professor Sir John Knox Laughton and Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge were the key lea ...
from 1996 until 2005
and is a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society, founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history.
Origins
The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...
.
Lambert's work focuses on the naval and strategic history of the British Empire between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, and the early development of naval historical writing. His work has addressed a range of issues, including technology, policy-making, regional security, deterrence, historiography, crisis-management and conflict.
He has lectured on aspects of his work in Australia, Canada, Finland, Denmark and Russia. In addition, he wrote and presented for the
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the television series ''War at Sea'' in 2004.
On 1 May 2014 he was awarded the Anderson Medal by the
Society for Nautical Research
The Society for Nautical Research is a British society that conducts research and sponsors projects related to maritime history worldwide.
Founded in 1910, the Society initially encouraged research into seafaring, ship-building, the language and ...
for his book ''The Challenge: Britain against America in the Naval War of 1812'' (Faber and Faber 2012).
Books
* ''Battleships in Transition: the Creation of the Steam Battlefleet, 1815–1860'',
Conway Maritime Press
Conway Publishing, formerly Conway Maritime Press, is an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. It is best known for its publications dealing with nautical subjects.
History
Conway Maritime Press was founded in 1972 as an independent publisher. Its o ...
(1984)
* ''
Warrior
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History
Warriors seem to have be ...
: the World's First
Ironclad, Then and Now'', Conway Maritime Press (1987)
* ''The
Crimean War
The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia.
Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...
: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853 – 1856'',
Manchester University Press (1990)
* ''The Last Sailing Battlefleet: Maintaining Naval Mastery 1815 – 1850'', Conway Maritime Press (1991)
* ''Steam, Steel and Shellfire: the Steam Warship 1815–1906'', edited by Andrew Lambert, Conway Maritime Press (1991)
* ''The Crimean War: the War Correspondents'', edited by Andrew Lambert and Stephen Badsey,
Sutton Publishing (1994)
* ''The Foundations of Naval History: Sir
John Laughton, the Royal Navy and the Historical Profession'',
Chatham Publishing (1998)
* ''War at Sea in the Age of Sail'',
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (established 1949), often shortened to W&N or Weidenfeld, is a British publisher of fiction and reference books. It has been a division of the French-owned Orion Publishing Group since 1991.
History
George Weidenfeld a ...
(2000)
* ''Laughton's Legacy : Naval History at King's College London'' Inaugural Lecture (2002)
* ''
Trincomalee
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: the Last of
Nelson
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers
* ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...
's Frigates'', Chatham Publishing (2002)
* ''Letters and Papers of Professor Sir John Knox Laughton, 1830–1915''
Routledge
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(2002)
* ''The Naval History of Great Britain During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars'' by William James with a new introductions by Andrew Lambert. (2002)
* ''Nelson: Britannia's God of War'',
Faber and Faber (2004)
* ''Portsmouth Dockyard in the Age of Nelson: Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society Volume 1'',
Naval Dockyards Society
The Naval Dockyards Society was founded in 1997 with the objectives of increasing public awareness of historic dockyards and related sites and activities; increasing access to historic dockyards and related sites; monitoring proposed developments ...
(2006)
* ''Admirals: The Naval Commanders who made Britain Great'', Faber and Faber (2008)
* ''Ship: A History in Art & Photography'',
Conway Publishing
Conway Publishing, formerly Conway Maritime Press, is an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. It is best known for its publications dealing with nautical subjects.
History
Conway Maritime Press was founded in 1972 as an independent publisher. Its or ...
(2010)
* ''
Franklin
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: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation'', Faber and Faber (2010)
* ''The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812'', Faber and Faber (2012)
* ''Crusoe's Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness'', Faber and Faber (2016)
* ''Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World'',
Yale University Press
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, Yale Universi ...
(2018)
* ''The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853–56'', Routledge (2020)
* ''Letters and Papers of Professor Sir John Knox Laughton, 1830-1915 (Navy Records Society Publications)'', Routledge (2021),
* ''Favourite of Fortune: Captain
John Quilliam
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,
Trafalgar Trafalgar most often refers to:
* Battle of Trafalgar (1805), fought near Cape Trafalgar, Spain
* Trafalgar Square, a public space and tourist attraction in London, England
It may also refer to:
Music
* ''Trafalgar'' (album), by the Bee Gees
Pl ...
Hero'' (with Andrew Bond and Frank Cowin),
Seaforth Publishing
Pen and Sword Books, also stylised as Pen & Sword, is a British publisher which specialises in printing and distributing books in both hardback and softback on military history, militaria and other niche subjects; factual non-fiction, primaril ...
(2021)
* ''The British Way of War:
Julian Corbett
Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (12 November 1854 at Walcot House, Kennington Road, Lambeth – 21 September 1922 at Manor Farm, Stopham, Pulborough, Sussex) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and e ...
and the Battle for a National Strategy'', Yale University Press (2021)
Articles
* "Preparing for the Russian War: British Strategy; March 1853 – March 1854.", ''War & Society'' (1989)
* "The Naval War" in Pimlott, J.L. & Badsey, S. Eds. ''The Gulf War Assessed'' (London, 1992)
* "Aland, Bomarsund and Anglo-Russian Relations 1815–1854" in Ericsson, K. & Montin, K. eds. ''I Vedlast Over Skiftet Och Alands Hav'' (Abo, 1993)
* "Seapower 1939–40: Churchill and the Strategic Origins of the Battle of the Atlantic", ''
Journal of Strategic Studies
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'' (March 1994)
* "Part of a Long Line of Circumvallation to Confine the Future Expansion of Russia: Great Britain and the Baltic 1809 – 1895", in Rystad, Bohme & Carlgren Eds. ''In Quest of Trade and Security: The Baltic in Power Politics, 1500- 1990'' (Lund University, Sweden, 1994)
* "The Shield of Empire (1815–1895)" in
J. R. Hill. Ed. ''The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy'' (Oxford, 1995)
* "The Royal Navy 1856–1914: Deterrence and the Strategy of World Power" in Neilson, K. & Errington, J. ''Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategies'' (London, 1996)
* "Empire and Seapower: Shipbuilding by the East India Company at Bombay for the Royal Navy 1805–1850" in ''Les Flottes Des Compagnes des Indes 1600–1857'' (Paris, 1996)
* "Politics, Technology and Policy-Making, 1859–1865: Palmerston, Gladstone and the Management of the Ironclad Naval Race" in ''The Northern Mariner'' vol. VIII (July 1998) pp. 9–38
* "Responding to the Nineteenth Century: the Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller", ''History of Technology'' (1999)
* "Admiral Sir William Cornwallis" in Le Fevre & Harding, eds., ''The Precursors of Nelson'' (London, 2000)
* "Under the heel of Britannia, the Bombardment of Sweaborg 8–10 August 1855" and "The Syrian Campaign, 1814" in Capt. P. Hore RN ed. ''Seapower Ashore: 200 Years of Royal Navy Operations on Land'' (London, 2001)
* "The Principal Source of Understanding: Navies and the Educational Role of the Past" in Capt. P. Hore, RN, ed., ''The Hudson Papers'' Volume 1. (London: Ministry of Defence, 2001)
* "Australia, the Trent Crisis of 1861 and the strategy of imperial defence" in Stevens, D. & Reeve, J., eds. ''Southern Trident: Strategy, History and the rise of Australian Naval Power'' (Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 2001)
* "Introduction" and "The Slide into War" in Gardiner, Robert, ed. ''The Naval War of 1812'' (London, Caxton Editions, 2001)
* "General Introduction" and "Introduction Part 2" in James, W. M., ''The Naval History of Great Britain, During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Volume 2, 1797–1799'' (London, Conway Maritime Press, 2002)
* "Winning without Fighting: British Grand Strategy and its Application to the United States, 1815–65" in Lee, Bradford A. & Walling, Karl F., eds. ''Strategic Logic and Political Rationality'' (London, Frank Cass, 2003)
* "Introduction" in James, William, ''Naval Occurrences of The War of 1812'' (London, Conway Maritime Press, 2004)
and numerous others.
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1956 births
Academics of King's College London
Academics of the University of the West of England, Bristol
Alumni of King's College London
English naval historians
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Living people