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• Programme Director of the Online MSc in History 
• Membership Secretary of the British International History Group

I was born in Cambridge and raised in Edinburgh.  Having previously taught at the Universities of Stirling, Glasgow and the Open University, I was appointed to my current post as Lecturer in History, and Co-Programme Director of the online MSc in History at the University of Edinburgh in December 2012.

Online MSc in History: http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/online-history

The British International History Group: http://www.bihg.ac.uk

Summary of research interests

• Europe

• Diplomatic History
• Society
• War

• Nineteenth Century
• Twentieth Century & After

Map showing the population of Armenia, 1897 Russian Census.  TNA FO 608/108. 

My research interests cover the international history of East Central Europe from the end of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War.  I am particularly interested in the role of British foreign policy during this period, and the impact that the Great War on British diplomacy towards Eastern Europe in the immediate aftermath of the conclusion of the conflict.  At the moment, I am researching the link between Reparations and Revisionism in the 1920s.  

Sub-Honours

• The Historian's Toolkit
• Themes in Modern European History

Honours

• History Skills and Methods I & II
• The Holocaust (3/4MA)
• The Continental Commitment: British Foreign Policy toward Europe in the Era of the Great War (3/4MA)
• The Origins of the First World War, 1871-1917 (4MA)

At Masters level in History I am responsible for the first of the two core courses:

• Historical Research: Skills & Sources
• Historical Research: Skills & Sources (online)

In addition to this I teach a range of option courses for the online MSc:

• Willingly to War? The Origins of the First World War
• The Shadow of Versailles: Europe Between the Wars, 1918-1939
• Empire or Continent?: British Foreign Policy in the Era of the Great War
• Link to online courses

And organise with Dr Luke March (in SPS) two joint History & Politics Courses: 

• Ideology and Politics in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space
• Society and Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space

And two courses on the Contemporary History MSc:

• Making Peace, Making War: European International History, 1914-1945
• Revolutions in Twentieth Century Europe

I am happy to accept research students who are interested in working in the following areas: 

• Diplomacy & Decision-Making (in Europe c. 1890-1939)
• British Foreign Policy, c. 1890-1925
• The Origins of the First World War
• Peacemaking, c. 1918-1925
• The international impact of the Russian Revolution(s), c. 1917-1921