Scottish Centre for War Studies and Conflict Archaeology

Dr Timothy Peacock is a lecturer in History, who has been teaching the Masters course “The American Way of War: From the Revolution to the War on Terror” since 2015. His research interests span early modern and modern, military and political, American and British History, with a particular focus on Nuclear History and Space Security. He also has an interest in political/military wargaming through his work as co-director and co-founder of the University’s Games and Gaming Lab (GGLab). Publications include an article on ‘Cromwell’s “Spymaster”? John Thurloe and Rethinking Early Modern Intelligence’ (The Seventeenth Century, November 2018), and he is a Visiting Fellow at the British Library, working on “The Crossroads of Memory: Changing perceptions of Pacific places and populations in news and photographic reporting of postwar American Nuclear Testing”.

Dr Peacock runs the @UofGWarstudies Twitter account.

First published: 25 November 2019