Professor Sir Hew Strachan

Professor Sir Hew Strachan

DL (Tweeddale), MA, PhD, D Univ (Univ of Paisley), FBA, FRHistS, FRSE
History, Politics and International Relations
Emeritus Fellow since 2015

Hew Strachan has completed a book for Cambridge University Press called The Direction of War: Current Strategy in Historical Perspective, which will be published in December 2013. He has been heavily involved with the preparations for the centenary of the First World War, serving on the UK and Scotland national advisory committees and on the Comité Scientifique of the Mission du Centenaire in France. He has also chaired the Imperial War Museum's academic advisory committee for its new First World War galleries and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's 2014-18 Committee.

Research Areas
Military History From the 18th Century to Date, Including Contemporary Strategic Studies; Particular Interest in the First World War and British Army History.

Selected Publications

Clausewitz’s On War: a Biography

(London: Atlantic Books, 2007).

The First World War: A New Illustrated History

(London: Simon & Schuster, 2003)

The First World War, Vol. 1: To Arms

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

The Politics of the British Army

(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology, and the British Army, 1815-1854

 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

Wellington’s Legacy: the Reform of the British Army

 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984)

Background
  • Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015)
  • Chichele Professor of the History of War and University Academic Fellow All Souls College (from 2002 to 2015)
  • Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow, and Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies (from 1992 to 2001)
  • Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Life Fellow, 1992) (from 1979 to 1992)
  • Senior Lecturer in War Studies and International Affairs, RMA, Sandhurst (from 1978 to 1979)
  • Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (from 1975 to 1978)
  • Undergraduate (1968–71) then postgraduate (from 1972) , Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (from 1968 to 1975)