Profiles
Dr Louis Halewood
Philip Nicholas Lecturer in Maritime History
School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Biography
Biography
Philip Nicholas Lecturer in Maritime History
Postgraduate Research Co-ordinator, School of Society and Culture
I am a historian of war and diplomacy in the ninteteenth and twentieth centuries. My current research focuses on the relationship between sea power and world order in British and American strategic thought during the first half of the twentieth century, and during 2023 I held a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress to start work on my next book project, which examines these themes in the decades following the First World War.
I joined the University of Plymouth in 2019 from Merton College, Oxford, where I completed my DPhil thesis titled 'Internationalising Sea Power: Ideas of World Order and the Maintenance of Peace, 1890-1919'. At Merton, I held the John Roberts MC3 (Great War) scholarship between 2015-18, and a Smith Richardson Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship at International Security Studies, Yale University, between 2018-19. I previously completed my BA in War Studies at King's College London, and my MA in History at the University of Calgary.
Qualifications
- BA War Studies, King's College London
- MA History, University of Calgary
- DPhil History, University of Oxford
Roles on external bodies
Councillor of the Navy Records Society
Highlights
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
First Year
- HIS4001: What is History?
- HIS4004: Fractured Isles: Britain and Ireland, 1640-1990
Second Year
- HIST528: First World War at Sea
Third Year
- HIST625: Anglo-American Relations in Maritime Perspective
Postgraduate
- MAHI729: Sea Power in History
- MAHI730: All at Sea: Research Skills for Maritime History
Areas of expertise for postgraduate supervision
- Maritime and Naval History
- The First World War
- The League of Nations
- Grand Strategy
- The History of Strategic Thought
Research
Research
Research interests
Maritime and Naval History
The First World War
The History of Strategic Thought
Modern British History
Other research
During 2023, I held a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress, where I began work on my next project, titled 'Sea Power, Identity, and the Creation of the 'Liberal International Order', 1920-1950'. I am also currently completing a book project which builds on my DPhil thesis, completed at the University of Oxford, examining the role of sea power and international naval co-operation in visions of world order between 1890 and 1919, culminating in the creation of the League of Nations. Elements of this work have recently been published in the article ''Peace throughout the oceans and seas of the world': British maritime strategic thought and world order, 1892-1919', which won the 2020 Sir Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History. I have previously published on other aspects of the First World War, including an article on intelligence assessments of the success of attrition on the Western Front between 1914 and 1917. I have also co-edited a collection on time and the First World War, and a volume on economic warfare, grand strategy, and sea power between 1650-1945.
Publications
Publications
Journals
Louis Halewood and David Morgan-Owen, 'Captains of War: History in Professional Military Education', The RUSI Journal 165:7 (2020), pp. 46-54
Louis Halewood, ''A Matter of Opinion': British Attempts to Assess the Attrition of German Manpower, 1915-1917', Intelligence and National Security 32:3 (2017), pp. 333-350
Louis Halewood, ''Peace throughout the oceans and seas of the world': British maritime strategic thought and world order, 1892-1919', Historical Research 94:265 (2021), pp. 554-577
Louis Halewood and David Morgan-Owen, 'Captains of War: History in Professional Military Education', The RUSI Journal 165:7 (2020), pp. 46-54
Louis Halewood, ''A Matter of Opinion': British Attempts to Assess the Attrition of German Manpower, 1915-1917', Intelligence and National Security 32:3 (2017), pp. 333-350
Books
Louis Halewood, Adam Luptak, and Hanna Smyth, eds.,War Time: First World War Perspectives on Temporality (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)
David Morgan-Owen and Louis Halewood, eds., Economic Warfare and the Sea: Grand Strategies for Maritime Powers, 1650-1945 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020)
Louis Halewood, Adam Luptak, and Hanna Smyth, eds.,War Time: First World War Perspectives on Temporality (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)
Other Publications
Personal
Personal
Conferences organised
Oxford Naval History Conference 2017, 'Economic Warfare and the Sea, 1650-1950', All Souls College, Oxford (13-15th July 2017)
9th Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies: 'War Time', University of Oxford (10-11th November 2016)
Bow River Graduate History Conference, University of Calgary (22-24th January 2015)
Other academic activities
Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress (2023)
Smith Richardson Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, International Security Studies, Yale University (2018-19)
Edward S. Miller Research Fellowship, United States Naval War College (2017)