Dr Nicholas Rodger
FBA, MA, DPHIL
History
Emeritus Fellow since 2017
My first career was as an Assistant Keeper of the Public Records, 1974-1991. I next became Anderson Senior Research Fellow of the National Maritime Museum to 1999, and then Professor of Naval History in the University of Exeter until 2008. Since 2008 I have been a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls (Emeritus since 2017).
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Research Areas
Naval History of Britain and of Other Countries, From the 6th Century to the Present Day
International Comparisons Between Naval Powers, and in Internal Connections Between Naval History and Other Approaches to National History
Naval Connections With Political, Economic, Social, Agricultural, Religious and Medical History
Selected Publications
The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815-1945
(London, 2024)
(ed. with R. Cock), A Guide to the Naval Records in the National Archives of the UK
(London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 2006; 2nd edn. 2008).
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, vol. II, 1649–1815
(London: Allen Lane in association with the National Maritime Museum, 2004).
(ed.), Memoirs of a Seafaring Life: The Narrative of William Spavens
(Great Britain: Folio Society, 2000).
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval history of Britain, vol. 1, 660–1649
(London: HarperCollins Publishers in association with the National Maritime Museum, 1997).
(ed.), Naval Power in the Twentieth Century
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996).
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