David Stevenson | |
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![]() Professor David Stevenson delivering a Gresham College lecture in November 2014. | |
Nationality | British |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Military History |
Sub-discipline | First World War |
Institutions | London School of Economics |
David Stevenson is a British historian specialising in the period of the First World War. He is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). [1]
Stevenson studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge,before receiving a Ph.D. from the same university. He became a Lecturer at the LSE in 1982. In 1998,he was appointed Professor of International History. Between 2004 and 2005,he also received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship "for research on supply and logistics in 1914-1918" [2]
His most recent books are:With Our Backs to the Wall:Victory and Defeat in 1918,released by Penguin (in the UK) and Belknap Press [2] and 1917:War,Peace and Revolution,published by OUP.
Stevenson is married and lives in Essex. He is one of the founding members of the erstwhile Loughton Festival as well as being a former President of the Central London HA and the Loughton &District Historical Society. He was also previously the Secretary of the Herts &Essex Architectural Society.