I am Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College. After completing my research in the Department I taught at Bristol Polytechnic,(now the University of West of England), the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich, and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and also Director of the Laughton Naval History Unit housed in the Department.
My areas of interest include:
Naval history
Strategic history
History of technology
Historiography