After reading history at Cambridge, Toby Ewin worked at the Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office and Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre. In 2009–10 he was a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism & Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, and since 2014 has been a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at KCL.

Research interests

• Naval history before and during the First World War, particularly the Black Sea conflict and Anglo-Russian naval relations.
• CBRN terrorism. 

Publications

• “Action off the Bosphorus: 10 May 1915,” in John Jordan, ed., Warship 2024. Osprey, forthcoming.
• “The Royal Navy’s first wargames, 1900-1915,” MORS Journal of Wargaming (new journal, first issue, forthcoming).
• “Malden’s Home Guard and the scale of wartime volunteering,” Magna 34:1, 2023.
• “Time to talk Turkey: the British Naval and German Military Missions to the Ottoman Empire in 1912-14,” The Mariner's Mirror 109:3, August 2023.
• (with Peter Hopkins, ed.s), Motspur Park and West Barnes memories 1920 to 1947: collections and recollections by Bruce S Bendell. Merton Historical Society, 2023.
• “Naval Interrogations of PoWs in the Black Sea War, 1914 and 1916,” The Mariner’s Mirror 108:3, August 2022.
• “Modern resonances of Imperial Germany’s biological warfare sabotage campaign, 1915-18,” The Nonproliferation Review 27:4-6, 2021.
• “Bosphorus defences—and a Russian minefield—in 1915,” Magna 30:2, November 2019 [magazine of the Friends of the National Archives]
• “Seventy years before Litvinenko: UK and US were offered a way to make polonium,” Magna 29:1, May 2018.
• “ ‘A great explosion had taken place’: British reports of the loss of Russia’s first Black Sea dreadnought,” Magna 28:1, May 2017.
• “Eyewitness accounts of the outbreak of war in the Black Sea, 1914,” Magna 27:2, Nov. 2016.
• “British account of the action off Cape Sarych, 1914,” The Mariner’s Mirror 102:2, May 2016.
• “A unique ‘spy ring’—and an unusual naturalisation in 1923,” Magna 26:2, Nov 2015.