Dr Daniel Whittingham

• PhD (King's College, London)
• MA History of Warfare (King's College, London)
• BA History (Trinity College, Oxford)

I joined the University of Birmingham in September 2013. Previously, I completed my PhD at King’s College London.

Undergraduate teaching

• Special subject: Britain and the First World War
• Third year advanced option: ‘Britain’s Wars of Colonisation and Decolonisation, 1815-1960’

Previous undergraduate teaching

• Second year autumn option: ‘the British Army, 1660-1960’
• Second year spring option: ‘Command in War’
• Second year spring option: ‘In the Eye of the Storm: Europe and the Second World War
• Special subject: The American Civil War
• Special subject: ‘The British Army on the Western Front’
• Group research: ‘The British Infantry Officer on the Western Front’
• War Studies core module: ‘The Rise of Modern War’

Postgraduate teaching

• MA Military History by distance learning

I would welcome PhD proposals on the following topics: British colonial warfare (including war during the era of decolonisation), Counterinsurgency, and the British army 1815-1945.

I am the author of Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare (Cambridge University Press, 2020).  This study examines the life and work of the British military thinker Charles E. Callwell (1859 – 1928), including his most well-known book, Small Wars (1896).

My current book project, Britain and the Middle East After World War I: Policy, Strategy, and Military Operations, is under contract with Oxford University Press.  It explores how war and the use (and limitations) of armed force shaped the Middle East.  The focus is Britain and the failure to achieve "peace with Turkey".  The book covers the period 1918-26 - encompassing the initial armistice, military occupation, riots and revolts in the Mandates, imperial policing, the failed Peace of Sèvres, the war in Anatolia, the Chanak Crisis of 1922, the Treaty of Lausanne, and the Mosul Dispute that was finally settled in 1926.

I have served as Membership Secretary and International Secretary of the British Commission for Military History (BCMH), and as a Councillor of the Amy Records Society.  I am a member of the Society for Military History (SMH) and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR).