Research
The primary focus of my historical research is early modern and modern British naval history, with secondary interests in 20th century American military history.
My PhD thesis on the Royal Naval Air Service and the evolution of British Naval Aviation during the First World War was completed in 2019. My article on the contribution of the Royal Naval Air Service to the anti-submarine campaign of 1917-1918 was published in the British Journal for Military History (2018).
Recent research output:
After Trafalgar: The Royal Navy & the Napoleonic Wars, 1806 – 1816
Operation Anaconda: Victory and Defeat in Afghanistan, March 2002
Naval Aviation and the Grand Fleet: Airships to Aircraft Carriers
Trade Defence in the English Channel, 1914 – 1918
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 1917 – 1918
England and the Closing of the Middle Ages, the Battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485
The Royal Naval Air Service and the Evolution of Naval Aviation in Britain, 1914-1918
Operation Urgent Fury: Cold War Crisis in Grenada
The Career of Admiral Sir George Pocock
The Royal Naval Air Service and Anti-Submarine Warfare in the North Sea, 1917 – 1918
Captain Charles Middleton and the Seven Years’ War
Keeping the Genie in the Bottle: RNAS Anti-Submarine Warfare
Armour Tactics at the Battle of 73 Easting
Bunker Hill: Amphibious and Infantry Operations
Infantry Tactics at the Battle of Crecy
Any Other Name: The Origin of HMS Dreadnought (SSN, S101)