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Peter H. Wilson
Peter H. Wilson

Peter H. Wilson, joined the Department as GF Grant Professor of History in January 2007, having worked previously at the universities of Sunderland and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In addition, he taught at High Point University, North Carolina, in 2011, and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Münster, Germany. He did his BA at Liverpool and PhD at Jesus College Cambridge. He is a specialist in early modern German history, particularly the political, military, social and cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire between 1495 and 1806. He is also interested in the impact of war in wider European and world development from the seventeenth century to around 1900. Between 2002 and 2009 he coordinated the German History Society’s series of annual workshops on early modern German history with Dr Michael Schaich at the German Historical Institute, London. He is one of the curators of the international exhibition to mark the tricentenary of the birth of Frederick ‘the Great’, held in Potsdam in 2012 (http://www.spsg.de/index_10135_de.html). A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has served on the committee of the German History Society and is on the editorial advisory boards of The International History Review (2006-10), H-HRE , War and Society, and the Studies in European History series (Palgrave). He is currently an external assessor for the German Federal Government Excellence Initiative.

  • The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806

    October 12, 2012

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10972602-the-holy-roman-empire-1495-1806 The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806 (Studies in European History) The Holy Roman Empire covered much…

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