Cliopatria Welcomes Dan Todman

Cliopatria is delighted to welcome Dan Todman to our group. Dr. Todman took his first degree at the London School of Economics and moved to Pembroke College, Cambridge, for his doctoral studies of representations of World War I in British popular culture between 1918 and 1998. After teaching in the War Studies Department of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, he moved to Queen Mary, University of London, in 2003. There, he teaches courses on the Shaping of Contemporary Britain, the First and Second World Wars, and the cultural legacy of conflict.

With Alex Danchev, Dr. Todman co-edited War Diaries, 1939-1945: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke (2001); and with Gary Sheffield, he co-edited Command and Control: The British Armies Experience, 1914-1918 (2004). In 2005, he published The Great War: Myth and Memory. His continuing research interests are in the ways people form their ideas about the past, and particularly on the myths that emerge in the aftermath of modern warfare. Dr. Todman blogs at Trench Fever; and was recently named"Young Academic Author of the Year" by the London Times. It's a pleasure to welcome him to Cliopatria.