Andrew Lambert
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Andrew Lambert BA MA, PhD, FRHistS
(born 31 December 1956) is a British naval historian, who is currently Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College London
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, England
and is the son of David George Lambert of Beetley, Norfolk and Nola, née Burton. He attended Hamond's High School
, Swaffham
, and received his BA in Law from the City of London Polytechnic. He earned his MA and PhD in naval history in the War Studies Department, King's College London
.
, from 1989 until 1991; senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London from 1996 until 1999, then professor of naval history, from 1999 until 2001; and then Laughton Professor of Naval History, and Director of the Laughton Naval History Research Unit. He served as Hon. Secretary of the Navy Records Society 1991-2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
.
Lambert's work focuses on the naval and strategic history of the British Empire between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, and the early development of naval historical writing. His work has addressed a range of issues, including technology, policy-making, regional security, deterrence, historiography, crisis-management and conflict. He has lectured on aspects of his work around the world, from Australia and Canada to Finland, Denmark and Russia. In addition, he wrote and produced for the BBC
, the "War at Sea" television series in 2004. He has also written works on important nineteenth century naval historians, including William James
and Professor Sir John Knox Laughton
, after whom Lambert's chair in Naval History at King's is named.
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(born 31 December 1956) is a British naval historian, who is currently Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
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Early life and education
Andrew Lambert was born in NorfolkNorfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
, England
England
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and is the son of David George Lambert of Beetley, Norfolk and Nola, née Burton. He attended Hamond's High School
Hamond's High School
Swaffham Hamond's High School is a secondary school in Swaffham, Norfolk, England.The headteacher, Mrs. Yvonne Srodzinski who took over from Robert Young in 2002, has been suspended as of May 2009. Stuart Bailey has been appointed as the Interim Headteacher....
, Swaffham
Swaffham
Swaffham is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The town is situated east of King's Lynn and west of Norwich.The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 households...
, and received his BA in Law from the City of London Polytechnic. He earned his MA and PhD in naval history in the War Studies Department, King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
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Academic career
After completing his doctoral research, Lambert was lecturer in modern international history at Bristol Polytechnic from 1983 until 1987; consultant in the Department of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, from 1987 until 1989; senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy SandhurstRoyal Military Academy Sandhurst
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst , commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is a British Army officer initial training centre located in Sandhurst, Berkshire, England...
, from 1989 until 1991; senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London from 1996 until 1999, then professor of naval history, from 1999 until 2001; and then Laughton Professor of Naval History, and Director of the Laughton Naval History Research Unit. He served as Hon. Secretary of the Navy Records Society 1991-2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London...
.
Lambert's work focuses on the naval and strategic history of the British Empire between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, and the early development of naval historical writing. His work has addressed a range of issues, including technology, policy-making, regional security, deterrence, historiography, crisis-management and conflict. He has lectured on aspects of his work around the world, from Australia and Canada to Finland, Denmark and Russia. In addition, he wrote and produced for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, the "War at Sea" television series in 2004. He has also written works on important nineteenth century naval historians, including William James
William James (naval historian)
William M. James was a British lawyer turned naval historian who wrote important naval histories of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815.-Career:...
and Professor Sir John Knox Laughton
John Knox Laughton
Sir John Knox Laughton Kt was a British naval historian and arguably the first to argue for the importance of the subject as an independent field of study...
, after whom Lambert's chair in Naval History at King's is named.
Books
- Battleships in transition : the creation of the steam battlefleet, 1815-1860, Conway Maritime Press (1984) ISBN 978-0851773155
- Warrior : the world's first ironclad, then and now, Conway Maritime Press (1987) ISBN 978-0870219863
- The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853 - 1856, Manchester University Press (1990) ISBN 978-0719029783
- The Last Sailing Battlefleet: Maintaining Naval Mastery 1815 - 1850, Conway Maritime Press (1991) ISBN 978-0851775913
- Steam, steel and shellfire : the steam warship 1815-1906, edited by Andrew Lambert, Conway Maritime Press (1991) ISBN 978-0851776088
- The Crimean War: the war correspondents, edited by Andrew Lambert and Stephen Badsey (1994)
- The Foundations of Naval History: Sir John Laughton, the Royal Navy and the Historical Profession, Chatham Publishing (1998) ISBN 978-1861760869
- War at Sea in the Age of Sail, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (2000) ISBN 978-0304352463
- Laughton's legacy : naval history at King's College London Inaugural Lecture (2002)
- Trincomalee: the last of Nelson's frigates (2002)
- Letters and papers of Professor Sir John Knox Laughton, 1830-1915 Navy Records Society (2002)
- The naval history of Great Britain : during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by William James with new introductions by Andrew Lambert. (2002)
- Nelson : Britannia's God of War, Faber and FaberFaber and FaberFaber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
(2004) ISBN 978-0571212224 - Admirals: The Naval Commanders who made Britain Great, Faber and Faber (2008) ISBN 978-0571231560
- Ship: A History in Art & Photography, Conway PublishingConway PublishingConway Publishing, formerly known as Conway Maritime Press, is a division of Anova Books, a London-based independent publishing group.- History :Conway Maritime Press was founded independently in 1972...
(2010) ISBN 978-1844860760 - Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation, Faber and Faber (2010) ISBN 978-0571231614
Major articles
- 'Preparing for the Russian War: British Strategy; March 1853 - March 1854.' War & Society (1989)
- 'The Naval War' in Pimlott, J.L. & Badsey, S. Eds. The Gulf War Assessed (London, 1992)
- 'Aland, Bomarsund and Anglo-Russian Relations 1815-1854' in Ericsson, K. & Montin, K. eds. I Vedlast Over Skiftet Och Alands Hav (Abo, 1993)
- 'Seapower 1939-40: Churchill and the Strategic Origins of the Battle of the Atlantic' Journal of Strategic Studies (March 1994)
- '"Part of a Long Line of Circumvallation to Confine the Future Expansion of Russia': Great Britain and the Baltic 1809 - 1895.' In Rystad, Bohme & Carlgren Eds. In Quest of Trade and Security: The Baltic in Power Politics, 1500- 1990 (Lund University, Sweden, 1994)
- 'The Shield of Empire' (1815–1895) in J. R. Hill. Ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy (Oxford, 1995)
- 'The Royal Navy 1856 - 1914: Deterrence and the Strategy of World Power' in Neilson, K. & Errington, J. Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategies (London, 1996)
- 'Empire and Seapower: Shipbuilding by the East India Company at Bombay for the Royal Navy 1805-1850' in Les Flottes Des Compagnes des Indes 1600-1857 (Paris, 1996)
- 'Politics, Technology and Policy-Making, 1859-1865: Palmerston, Gladstone and the Management of the Ironclad Naval Race' in The Northern Mariner vol. VIII (July 1998) pp. 9–38
- 'Responding to the Nineteenth Century: the Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller' History of Technology (1999)
- 'Admiral Sir William Cornwallis' in Le Fevre & Harding, eds., The Precursors of Nelson (London, 2000)
- 'Under the heel of Britannia, the Bombardment of Sweaborg 8–10 August 1855' and 'The Syrian Campaign, 1814' in Capt. P. Hore RN ed. Seapower Ashore: 200 Years of Royal Navy Operations on Land (London, 2001)
- 'The Principal Source of Understanding: Navies and the Educational Role of the Past' in Capt. P. Hore, RN, ed., The Hudson Papers Volume 1. (London: Ministry of Defence, 2001)
- 'Australia, the Trent Crisis of 1861 and the strategy of imperial defence' in Stevens, D. & Reeve, J., eds. Southern Trident: Strategy, History and the rise of Australian Naval Power (Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 2001)
- 'Introduction' and 'The Slide into War' in Gardiner, Robert, ed. The Naval War of 1812 (London, Caxton Editions, 2001)
- 'General Introduction' and 'Introduction Part 2' in James, W. M., The Naval History of Great Britain, During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Volume 2, 1797-1799 (London, Conway Maritime Press, 2002)
- 'Winning without Fighting: British Grand Strategy and its Application to the United States, 1815-65' in Lee, Bradford A. & Walling, Karl F., eds. Strategic Logic and Political Rationality (London, Frank Cass, 2003)
- 'Introduction' in James, William, Naval Occurrences of The War of 1812 (London, Conway Maritime Press, 2004)