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Professor Nick Lloyd

Professor of Modern Warfare

Research interests

  • Conflict
  • History
  • Security

Biography

Dr Nick Lloyd is Professor of Modern Warfare in the Defence Studies Department. He has published widely on military and imperial history in the era of the Great War and has written five books including the bestselling Passchendaele: A New History (Viking, 2017). This was shortlisted for the British Army Military Book of the Year, the Military History Monthly Book of the Year, and was chosen as one of the Telegraph's '50 Best Books of 2017'.

Research

Nick is currently embarking upon a major three-volume narrative history of the First World War. The first volume, The Western Front, was published in March 2021 and was chosen by The Times as one of the ‘best books to read this summer’. Future volumes will concentrate on the Eastern Front and the war in Africa and the Middle East.

Teaching

  • MA Special Subject: Lions & Donkeys: The British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918
  • Operational Studies: The Hundred Days, 1918

PhD Supervision

Nick is happy to supervise PhD students in all aspects of modern military history, including the First and Second World Wars, colonial warfare and air power. He is also interested in the changing nature of British rule in South Asia, including the history of the Indian Civil Service.

Publications

Books

  • The Western Front: A History of the First World War (London: Viking, 2021).
  • Passchendaele: A New History (London: Viking, 2017).
  • Hundred Days: The End of the Great War (London: Viking, 2013).
  • The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011).
  • Loos 1915 (Stroud: Tempus, 2006).

Scholarly Journal Articles

  • ‘Colonial Counter-Insurgency in Southern India: The Malabar Rebellion, 1921-22’, Contemporary British History, Vol. 29, No. 3 (2015), pp. 297-317.
  • ‘Sir Michael O'Dwyer and “Imperial Terrorism” in the Punjab, 1919’, South Asia, Vol. 33, No. 3 (December 2010), pp. 363-80.
  • ‘The Amritsar Massacre and the Minimum Force Debate’, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Vol. 21, No. 2 (June 2010), pp. 382-403.
  • ‘Battlefield Tours and Staff Rides: A Useful Learning Experience?’, Teaching in Higher Education, Vol. 14, No. 2 (April 2009), pp. 175-84.
  • ‘“With Faith and Without Fear”: Sir Douglas Haig's Command of First Army During 1915’, Journal of Military History, Vol. 71, No. 4 (October 2007), pp. 1051-76.
  • ‘Lord Kitchener and “the Russian News”: Reconsidering the Origins of the Battle of Loos’, Defence Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (September 2005), pp. 346-65.

Book Chapters

  • ‘The View From Government House: Sir Michael O’Dwyer’s War’, in Ian Talbot & Roger D. Long (eds.), India and World War I: A Centennial Assessment (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018).
  • ‘Losing the Game: Propaganda and Influence in the British Raj, 1917-47’, in Greg Kennedy & Chris Tuck (eds.), British Propaganda and Wars of Empire: Influencing Friend and Foe 1900-2010 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 33-52.
  • ‘The Last Governor: Sir Evan Jenkins in the Punjab, 1946-7’, in Ian Talbot (ed.), The Independence of India and Pakistan: New Approaches and Reflections (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 208-42.
  • ‘The Indian Army and Civil Disorder, 1919-22’, in Kaushik Roy (ed.), The Indian Army in the Two World Wars (Leiden, NL: Brill, 2011), pp. 335-58.

Dr Nick Lloyd PURE Profile

Research

WW1
The First World War Research Group

The First World War Research Group brings together a wealth of expertise on military, diplomatic, social, and cultural aspects of the conflict.

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Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War

The centre promotes the scholarly history of war in all it's dimensions, trains research students and hosts research projects and conferences

academic books
King's Contemporary British History

The study of Contemporary British History goes back to the 1960s, and was consolidated with the establishment of the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1985 by (Sir) Anthony Seldon and (Lord) Peter Hennessy. The Institute moved to King’s College London in 2010, and the new King’s Contemporary British History builds on this by creating a larger and more diverse enterprise, building on that distinguished tradition.

News

Dr Nick Lloyd wins two-book deal to complete a trilogy on the First World War

Following the success of his first publication, Viking is to publish a further two three First World War history titles by Dr Nick Lloyd

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Events

28Marthe eastern front cover

The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd

The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd Book Launch.

04MarNickLloydbooklaunch

Book Launch: The Western Front

Best-selling military historian Nick Lloyd discusses the first books of a major three-volume history of the First World War.

Please note: this event has passed.

Research

WW1
The First World War Research Group

The First World War Research Group brings together a wealth of expertise on military, diplomatic, social, and cultural aspects of the conflict.

SMHC newlogo 780x440
Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War

The centre promotes the scholarly history of war in all it's dimensions, trains research students and hosts research projects and conferences

academic books
King's Contemporary British History

The study of Contemporary British History goes back to the 1960s, and was consolidated with the establishment of the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1985 by (Sir) Anthony Seldon and (Lord) Peter Hennessy. The Institute moved to King’s College London in 2010, and the new King’s Contemporary British History builds on this by creating a larger and more diverse enterprise, building on that distinguished tradition.

News

Dr Nick Lloyd wins two-book deal to complete a trilogy on the First World War

Following the success of his first publication, Viking is to publish a further two three First World War history titles by Dr Nick Lloyd

NickLloyd

Events

28Marthe eastern front cover

The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd

The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd Book Launch.

04MarNickLloydbooklaunch

Book Launch: The Western Front

Best-selling military historian Nick Lloyd discusses the first books of a major three-volume history of the First World War.

Please note: this event has passed.