Miss Megan A. Hamilton

Megan Hamilton is a PhD Student in the Defence Studies Department. She holds an Honours BA (History) from Wilfrid Laurier University (2021) and an MA (History) from the University of Waterloo (2022). Her MA was fully funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Megan’s PhD is an AHRC-funded collaborative position between KCL and the Imperial War Museum. She joins King’s College with various experience in both public and academic history.

Research Interests: 

• Second World War
• Army training
• Wartime morale
• British Commonwealth/Empire military cooperation
• Canadian history
• First World War
• War and memory

Thesis:

Training the Troops: British and Commonwealth Armies, 1939-1945

Supervisors:

• Dr. Jonathan Fennell
• Simon Offord
• Professor Niall Barr

Research Articles: 

• Writing the History of the Dieppe Raid: The British-Canadian Historical Liaison Relationship in Five Documents. The Northern Mariner 31, no. 3 (Autumn 2021): 313-348.