Professor Charles Townshend FBA
- Title
- Professor Emeritus of International History
- Location
- CBB 1.059
- Phone
- 01782 733208
- c.j.n.townshend@keele.ac.uk
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
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
- 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
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)
School of Humanities
Chancellor's Building
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5AA
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733109
Head of School
Dr Nick Seager
Room: CBB1.038 (Chancellor's Building, 'B' Extension)
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733142
Email: n.p.seager@keele.ac.uk
School and college outreach
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 734009
Email: outreach@keele.ac.uk