Philip W. Blood

Research expertise:

Germany: military history, police history, social hunting and cultures of militarism.

Military occupation and security warfare, transport, railways and the logistics of the Holocaust.

Strategic studies and civil-military relations. 

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Advanced historical research in Germany, UK, USA, Poland, Holland and Belgium.

 

Research application of GIS software (Geographic Information System) in mapping soldiers and small unit actions in war and the Holocaust.  Mapping the origins of Auschwitz in the German colonies before 1914.

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Academics

 

BA (Hons) degree at Lancaster University in Politics, (Military History, Strategic Studies and Civil-Military Relations).

MBA (with distinction) from Aston University Business School.

MPhil, History, Birkbeck College, University of London, (one year, not completed, transferred to PhD. 

PhD, Military and Security History, Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham, Cranfield University

Supervised by Professor Richard Holmes and advised by Professor Chris Bellamy. 

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Academic career:

Lecturer, Working Men's Education Association, London.

Lecturer, University of Surrey, Guildford.

Senior Lecturer and chief researcher, RWTH-Aachen, Germany.

Historian, Association of the US Army, Washington DC.

Historical advisor, US Army Europe Education Services.

Chief Administrator and Senior Fellow with the American Academy in Berlin, under Henry Kissinger and Richard Holbrooke.

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Background, non-academic career:

Pre-university - UK civil service Department of Employment/Transport.

Post-university seventeen years in Lloyd's of London and reinsurance company market.

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