Professor Peter Wilson

Professor Wilson is a Chichele Professor of the History of War in the Faculty of History and University Academic Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. His research interests are centred on the history of war in wider European and world development from the seventeenth century to around 1900 Early modern German history, particularly the political, military, social, and cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire between 1495 and 1806.

Background

• University Academic Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015)
• GF Grant Professor of History, University of Hull (from 2007 to 2015)
• National War College, Washington DC: participation on 6200 War and Statecraft (September 2011)
• MA Summer School and PG workshops, High Point University, North Carolina, USA (June-August 2011)
• Visiting Fellow, Excellence Cluster, University of Münster, Germany (January 2011)
• Professor of Early Modern History, University of Sunderland (from 2001 to 2006)
• Reader in Early Modern European History, University of Sunderland (from 1998 to 2001)
• Lecturer in Early Modern European History, University of Newcastle (from 1994 to 1998)
• Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Sunderland (from 1990 to 1993)

Please see here for a list of publications.