Biography
Rachel is an historian of maritime power, specialising in the French Revolutionary Wars. She was awarded her PhD in naval history from King’s College London in 2023 and has since been working as a lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at KCL.
Rachel has sat on the editorial board for the Research in Maritime History Series at Liverpool University Press since 2023 and is a member of both the Society for Nautical Research and the Naval Records Society. She is also a regular contributor and presenter on the Napoleonic Quarterly podcast since 2020, including a spinoff series, Lessons from History, that applies history to contemporary security issues.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-napoleonic-quarterly/
Research Interests
- Contemporary and historical naval power and strategy
- French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- The Arctic
- Maritime Identity
Publications
Murphy, Hugh and Blackman-Rogers, Rachel (2022) “Greenfield shipyards and modernisation in the British Shipbuilding industry and elsewhere, 1900-1977,” The Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. 108, 2, Article ID: RMIR 2009246, DOI: 10.1080/00253359.2022.2009246
Teaching
Defence Studies at the UK Defence Academy
PURE Profile:
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/rachel-blackman-rogers
Research Centres and Groups:
- Laughton Unit
- The Corbett Centre