Office: T005
Email: E.Packarducs.ac.uk|
Phone: (leave a message with Claire Pirie 01473 338818)
Dr Ed Packard joined the History team as a lecturer in September 2010.
Dr Packard obtained his PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2009. He also holds a BA in History, with first class honours, from the LSE (2003) and an MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge (2004).
I am happy to supervise dissertations on most topics connected to modern European and international history; particularly those connected to war and peace from 1914 until 1945 (especially British policy); armaments manufacture and supply; the arms trade; financial-industrial relations; international disarmament and security; and the League of Nations.
Teaching and Other Responsibilities:
The Decline of the West? 1905-2001|
Europe 1914-45|
The Cold War|
A History of Genocide|
Dissertation| supervision
Schools liaison
Research Interests and Publications:
My research interests focus on the strength and role of Britain’s private armaments industry during the inter-war period. I am particularly interested in the way in which the state conceptualised national productive capacity for armaments in its supply planning for a future war; the relationship between individual arms firms and the financial community; the impact of British armament export policy; and international efforts to regulate the global arms trade between the wars. I currently hold a Scouloudi Historical Award for 2010-11 to undertake further research in these areas.
I have delivered a number of conference and seminar papers connected to my research, the most recent being: ‘Statesmen, Smugglers and Sideshows: British Policy towards International Efforts to Control Private Armaments Manufacture and the Arms Trade, 1917-1935’, International History seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, June 2010; and ‘Arms and Businessmen: Rethinking Britain’s inter-war armaments industry’, British International History Group conference, Oxford, September 2010.
I also have an emerging interest in the history of Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, having recently undertaken research in this area on behalf of the Royal Parks. Some of my initial ideas about Hyde Park representing a microcosm of the wider European civil war will likely be tested on students taking the Europe 1914-1945 module.