Charles Townshend

Biography

Biography

Fellow National Humanities Center (1987 - 1988)
Fellow Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1991 - 1992)
Professor Emeritus of International History, Keele University (2014 - )

Research and scholarship

Research and scholarship

Modern British and Irish history; the history of war, particularly political violence, and terrorism, public security, emergency powers and counter-insurgency in Ireland and Palestine under British rule.

Teaching

Teaching

• Modern British and Irish history
• history of war
• imperialism
• British rule in Palestine

I would be willing to supervise postgraduates interested in the British in Palestine, and Modern Ireland.

Publications

Publications

The Republic : the fight for Irish independence, 1918-1923 (Allen Lane, 2013)

Desert hell : the British invasion of Mesopotamia (Cambridge, 2011)

When God made hell : the British campaign in Mesopotamia and the creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 (Faber, 2010)