Gerard ("Gerry") Oram is a British cultural and social historian, with a particular interest in the First World War. [1]
He was a researcher at the University of Birmingham and a lecturer the Open University, before going on to teach at University of Swansea until 2025. He lectures at Swansea University teaching on a number of modules including Nazi Occupied Europe and the First World War. Oram also lectured at Cardiff University where he taught the War, Liberation and Reconstruction: Europe 1939-51 module. His seminal book, Death Sentences passed by military courts of the British Army 1914–1924, is on the recommended reading lists of the National Archives [2] and the Imperial War Museum. [3]
He is quoted in the British national press on the subject; and he was quoted as a source for an Irish government inquiry into treatment of Irish soldiers. [4] [5]