Megan Hamilton is a PhD Candidate in the Defence Studies Department. She holds an Honours BA (History) from Wilfrid Laurier University (2021) and an MA (History) from the University of Waterloo (2022). Her MA was fully funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Megan’s PhD is an AHRC-funded collaborative position between KCL and the Imperial War Museum. She is the PGR Lead for the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War and the Second World War Research Group.

Research Interests

• Second World War
• Army training
• Wartime morale
• Imperial Defence
• Canadian history
• Military alliances

Thesis

Training the Troops: British and Commonwealth Armies, 1939-1945

Supervisors:

• Professor Jonathan Fennell
• Simon Offord
• Professor Niall Barr

Publications 

• Writing the History of the Dieppe Raid: The British-Canadian Historical Liaison Relationship in Five Documents. The Northern Mariner 31, no. 3 (Autumn 2021): 313-348.
• “The Vernon Military Camp and the Imperial Training Archipelago, 1939-45.” Canadian Military History 33, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 1-31.