Institute of Historical Research Military History in Cananda Panel 3: Economic Warfare Reading the World’s Mail: British Blockade Intelligence and Economic Warfare, 1914-1918 John Ferris (Professor of History, University of Calgary, Canada) John Ferris is a Professor of History at the University of Calgary, where he is also a Fellow at The Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. He received an MA and a PhD in War Studies, from King's College, London. He has published four books and...

Institute of Historical Research Military History in Canada Panel 1: Military Intellectuals and British Strategy Charles Callwell and British Strategy Daniel Whittingham (Doctoral Student, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London) Daniel Whittingham is a PhD student in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London. His dissertation examines the military thought of Charles E. Callwell and will be the first dedicated study of Callwell’s works. Originally from Aldershot...

Institute of Historical Research Military History in Canada Keynote Speech: Canadian Military History Professor David Bercuson (Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, Canada) Since January 1997, David Bercuson has been the Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary and is also the Director of Programs of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, based in Calgary. He has published on a wide...

Institute of Historical Research Military History in Canada Panel 3: Economic Warfare R.H. Brand, Imperial Unity and Munitions from Canada, 1914-1917 Keith Neilson (Professor of History, Royal Military College, Canada) Keith Neilson is a University of Alberta graduate (BSc, BA, MA) who obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has taught the past thirty years at the Royal Military College, Canada. He is an expert in 19th and 20th century British foreign policy, Anglo-Russian...

Institute of Historical Research Military History in Canada Panel 2: First World War Charles Townshend's Advance on Baghdad: The British Offensive in b, September-November 1915 Nikolas Gardner (Associate Professor of Strategy, Department of Strategy and Leadership, Air Way College, Alabama, USA) Nikolas Gardner holds a PhD in military history and strategic studies from the University of Calgary. He has taught at Mount Royal College, in Calgary and the University of Salford, in Greater...

Institute of Historical Research Military History in Canada Panel 1: Military Intellectuals and British Strategy Analysing Defence and Thinking Strategically: The Works of Henry Spenser Wilkinson Paul Ramsey, Doctoral Student (Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada) Paul Ramsey is a PhD student in History at the University of Calgary. His dissertation examines the military thought of Henry Spenser Wilkinson. Originally from Liverpool he gained his BA (Hons) in Contemporary...

Institute of Historical Research Military History in Canada Panel 2: First World War The Supreme War Council’s Inter-allied War Planning for 1919 Meighen McCrae (Doctoral Student, University of Oxford) Originally from Algonquin, Ontario, Meighen McCrae completed her undergraduate degree at Carleton University with a major in History and a minor in English Literature. In 2007 she completed her Master’s thesis entitled, Strategy and Science Fiction: Britain and the Invasion Scares,...

Institute of Historical Research Military History in Canada Panel 2: First World War Contending Conceptions of Security in French Policy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Peter Jackson (Reader in International History, Aberystwyth University) Peter Jackson is a Reader in International History at Aberystwyth University. He is also editor of Intelligence and National Security, the world's leading academic journal in the field of intelligence and international relations. He has written...

Institute of Historical Research Military History in Canada Panel 1: Military Intellectuals and British Strategy A Meeting of Minds? Sir Julian Corbett and the Naval War Course, 1902-1914 Andrew Lambert (Laughton Professor of Naval History, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London) Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, and Director of the Laughton Naval History unit housed in the Department. His work...