Andrew Lambert
| Andrew David Lambert | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 December 1956 |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Maritime history |
| Notable works | Nelson: Britannia's God of War and other works |
Andrew Lambert FRHistS (born 31 December 1956) is a British naval historian, who since 2001 has been the Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
Andrew Lambert was born in Norfolk, England and is the son of David George Lambert of Beetley, Norfolk and Nola, née Burton. He attended Hamond's Grammar School (which became in 1976 Hamond's High School and in 2012 the Nicholas Hamond Academy) Swaffham, and received his BA in Law from the City of London Polytechnic. He earned his MA and PhD in naval history in the War Studies Department, King's College London.
After completing his doctoral research, Lambert was lecturer in modern international history at Bristol Polytechnic from 1983 until 1987; consultant in the Department of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, from 1987 until 1989; senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from 1989 until 1991; senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London from 1996 until 1999, then professor of naval history, from 1999 until 2001; and then Laughton Professor of Naval History, and Director of the Laughton Unit. He served as Honorary Secretary of the Navy Records Society from 1996 until 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Lambert's work focuses on the naval and strategic history of the British Empire between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, and the early development of naval historical writing. His work has addressed a range of issues, including technology, policy-making, regional security, deterrence, historiography, crisis-management and conflict. He has lectured on aspects of his work in Australia, Canada, Finland, Denmark and Russia. In addition, he wrote and presented for the BBC the television series War at Sea in 2004. He has also written works on 19th-century naval historians, including William James and John Knox Laughton, after whom Lambert's chair in Naval History at King's is named.
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