Peter H. Wilson
Peter Hamish Wilson (born 27 November 1963) is a British historian who specializes in German history and European military history. Since 2015 he has been the Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College, University of Oxford.
He earned a BA from the University of Liverpool and a PhD from Jesus College, Cambridge, supervised by T. C. W. Blanning.
Wilson began his career as a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Sunderland in 1990, then moved to Newcastle University in 1994. In 1998 he returned to Sunderland as a Reader, and from 2001 to 2006 he was Professor of Early Modern History there. From 2007 to 2015 he was the Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull. In 2011 he was a visiting fellow at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, and he has also taught at High Point University in North Carolina and the National War College in Washington, DC.
In 2015 he succeeded Hew Strachan as the Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls College, Oxford. From 2002 to 2010 he and Michael Schaich organized German History Society workshops at the German Historical Institute London. He has co-curated exhibitions such as Africa in the European Imagination (Hatton Gallery, 1998) and Great Britain, America, and the Atlantic World (New Palace, Potsdam, 2012).
Wilson serves on editorial advisory boards for journals including The International History Review, War and Society, and the Journal of Military History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).
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