Charles Townshend (historian)

Charles Townshend FBA (born 1945)[1] is a British historian with particular expertise on the history of British rule in Ireland and Mandatory Palestine.

Career

He worked for most of his career at Keele University from which he retired as Emeritus Professor of International History.[2]

Awards and Distinctions

Bibliography
  • Townshend, Charles (1975). The British campaign in Ireland, 1919-1921 : the development of political and military policies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Political violence in Ireland: government and resistance since 1848 (Oxford, 1983) (ISBN 0-19-821753-6)
  • Britain's Civil Wars: Counterinsurgency in the Twentieth Century (Faber and Faber, 1986) (ISBN 0-571-13802-0)
  • "The Making of Modern Irish Public Culture," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 61, No. 3, September 1989
  • Making the peace: public order and public security in modern Britain (Oxford, 1993) (ISBN 0-19-822978-X)
  • Ireland: The twentieth century (Hodder Arnold, 1999) (ISBN 0-340-66336-7; ISBN 0-340-66335-9)
  • Terrorism: A very short introduction (Oxford, 2002) (ISBN 0-19-280168-6)
  • "Religion, War, and Identity in Ireland," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 76, No. 4, December 2004
  • Townshend, Charles (2005). Easter 1916 : the Irish rebellion. London: Allen Lane.
  • Desert Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq 1914–1921. Faber & Faber, 2011. ISBN 0571237215.
  • The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence, 1918-1923 (Penguin, 2014) ISBN 0141030046
  • When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 (Faber and Faber, 2010) ISBN 9780571237210

References
  1. "Library of Congress Name Authority File". Errol.oclc.org. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
  2. "Charles Townshend". Keele University. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  3. "Professor Charles Townshend". British Academy. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.


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