My main research interests cover all aspects of the British response to the French Revolutionary and Napoleon and I have published on the political, diplomatic and military/naval aspects of that era. I also have wider interests in maritime and in naval history since 1689.

Lincoln College Oxford (BA History 1966); MA, D.Phil. (1971)

Assistant Lecturer in History, University of Exeter 1969-72; Lecturer 1972-88; Senior Lecturer 1988-2001; Reader in British History 2001-6, Associate Professor of History 2006-

Dean of Arts 1994-7, Head of History 1999-2003, Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies 1991-2007

Eighteenth and nineteenth century British history, particularly political, diplomatic and military

Naval history since 1689

University of Exeter - Dean of Arts 1994-7, Head of History 1999-2003, Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies 1991-2007

Fellow of Royal Historical Society, member of the Navy Records Society and the Society for Nautical Research

Editor of The Mariners Mirror. The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research (1991-2000); Member of Council 1990-2004.

Vice President (1993-6, 2004-7) and member of Council and of publications committee, Navy Records Society since 1993

Member of the British Commission of the International Commission for Maritime History since 1993.

Trustee, Devonport Naval Base Museum

External examiner: BA and MA Birmingham (1994-97); BA Southampton (1998-2001); PhDs at Cambridge (1989), LSE (1990), Oxford (1991), East Anglia (1992), Birmingham (1993), Glasgow (1993), Portsmouth (1995), Essex (1997), KCL (2000), Bristol (2001), Murdoch University (Perth, Aus)(2002), Edinburgh (2004), Kent (2004), KCL (2006)