Speaker: Dr Toby Ewin, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, KCL
Chair: Dr Alan James, Senior Lecturer, KCL
Summary: Dr Ewin’s talk is based on the testimony of the principal eye witnesses and other British and non-British sources. Exploring the main themes of the Black Sea War, including coal, railways, merchant fleets, and naval technology and intelligence, he hopes to shed light on the events of the war from the modernisation of the Ottoman navy by 1914 up to the major Russian amphibious landings on the North Anatolian coast in 1916.
Bio: After reading History at Cambridge from 1980-2010, Dr Ewin worked at the Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office and Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre. He was appointed OBE in 2002. In 2009-10 he was a member of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism & Political Violence at the University of St Andrews and is currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow attached to KCL's Centre for Science & Security Studies.
This event is being hosted by the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War