Professor Huw J. Davies studied for his PhD from the University of Exeter and joined the Defence Studies Department in 2005. Huw has published widely in the field of British military history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including three books on the subject: Wellington’s Wars: The Making of a Military Genius, published by Yale University Press in 2012; Spying for Wellington: British Military Intelligence in the Peninsular War, published by Oklahoma University Press in 2018; and The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War, again published by Yale in 2022. The most recent of these won the Templer Medal, bestowed by the Society of Army Historical Research for the most significant contribution to the field of British Army history. Huw is currently researching knowledge networks in the British Army of the Victorian era, and has conducted research in the United States, India, Pakistan and Australia, as well as in archives in Europe. He has also held fellowships at the University of Michigan, the Huntington Library in California and at Yale University. Huw has served in a variety of leadership roles in Defence Studies and the King’s Institute of Applied Security Studies, including Director of Education and Head of Online Programmes. He is currently Associate Dean (Professional & Online Education) in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy.

 

Research Interests

• Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century European Warfare
• Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Imperial Expansion and Warfare (Colonial America, Central Asia, India, Africa)
• The Military Enlightenment
• The Military Revolution
• Military Learning, Adaptation and Innovation
• Intelligence History

 

MA Special Subject

Britain as a Military Power 1754-1815

 

Doctoral Supervision

Prof Davies is happy to receive proposals for research degrees in any of the above subjects.

 

Dr Huw Davies PURE Profile