Dr Edward Hampshire MA
Edward Hampshire was educated at Madgalen College, Oxford and King’s College, London. He
was awarded a PhD in War Studies at King’s College in 2008. He worked at the Public Record
Office and National Archives for nearly ten years, latterly as Principal Records Specialist with
responsibility for diplomatic, colonial and intelligence records. He joined the Defence and
International Affairs department of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in July 2012.
Research interests
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British defence and foreign policy
Post-1945 diplomatic, end of empire and intelligence history
Naval history
Archives policy and government corporate memory
Books
Hampshire, Edward: From East of Suez to the Eastern Atlantic, British Naval Policy 1964-70
(Ashgate, 2013)
Twigge, Stephen; Hampshire, Edward; Macklin, Graham: British Intelligence: Secrets, Spies and
Sources (National Archives 2008, paperback 2009). Chapters on naval intelligence, air intelligence
and the Special Operations Executive.
Edited volume of documents
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Volume 9 – Britain, France and the Dunkirk
Treaty, 1944-47, ed. Hampshire, Edward (Routledge/Whitehall Publishing Group, forthcoming
2014)
Peer-reviewed articles and chapters
Hampshire, Edward: ‘‘Are they just interested in arms?’: building trading links with China 1978-81’
in the Foreign Office and Trade in the 20th century, ed. John Fisher, Effie Pedaliu, Richard Smith
(Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming 2015)
Accepted by Contemporary British History subject to minor changes, November 2013: Hampshire,
Edward: ‘Margaret Thatcher’s first U-turn: Francis Pym and the control of defence expenditure
1979-81’
Hampshire, Edward: ‘Alfred Duff Cooper’ in The Paris Embassy, British Ambassadors and AngloFrench Relations 1944-79, ed. Rogelia Pastor-Castro and John Young (Palgrave Macmillan 2013)
Hampshire, Edward: ‘Apply the flame more searingly. The destruction and migration of the
archives of British colonial administration, a South-East Asia case study’, The Journal of Imperial
and Commonwealth History, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2013, pp. 334-352
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Hampshire, Edward: ‘The battle for CVA01’, pp. 177-196 in British Naval Aviation, the First 100
Years, ed. Benbow, Tim (Ashgate Publishing, 2011)
Hampshire, Edward and Johnson, Valerie: ‘The Digital World and the Future of Historical
Research’, Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2009, pp. 396-414
Introductions
Calendars of State Papers Colonial (Supplementary) and Key to Colonial Record References (List
and Index Society, 2011). Scholarly introduction (c. 4000 words) on the provenance of colonial
records in the possession of the National Archives.
Foreign Office Correspondence 1906, Part 1: The Africa Department (List and Index Society,
2010). Scholarly introduction (c. 7000 words) on the history of the FO Africa Department 1882 to
1913 and the introduction of the 1906 registry system.
Brinestain and Biscuit, Recipes and Rules for Royal Navy Cooks (National Archives, 2006).
Scholarly introduction (c. 2000 words) to published facsimile of National Archives document.
Germany 1944: The British Soldier’s Pocketbook (National Archives, 2006). Scholarly introduction
(c. 5000 words) to published facsimile of National Archives document.
Memberships, honorary posts and awards
Associate Editor for Foreign and Commonwealth Office Documents on British Policy Overseas
series
Member of the Council of the List and Index Society.
Honorary Secretary of the Research and Programmes Committee of the Society for Nautical
Research
Member of the Society for Nautical Research, Navy Records Society, London Topographical
Society and London Record Society
PhD (2002-07) supported by (i) Sir John Knox Laughton naval scholarship, (ii) King’s College
London, School of Social Science and Public Policy scholarship.
Recent selected conference papers
‘Ending the continental commitment 30 years early: Margaret Thatcher’s first eighteen months in
power and the failed attempt to create a maritime-based defence strategy’ at 25th British
International History Group conference, University of the West of England, 7 September 2013
‘A South East Asia case study in the destruction and migration of records of colonial administration’
at the Connected Histories of Empire conference, Bristol University, 16 July 2013
‘“Do we need a navy?” British naval policy making and the 1981 defence review’ at the Joint
Service Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, 22 May 2013
‘The Royal Navy and the formulation of the 1981 defence review’ at the National Museum of the
Royal Navy, Portsmouth, naval history seminar series, 13 March 2013
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‘Regenerating the navy – naval procurement in the 20th century’ at 2012 Chief Naval Engineer’s
Conference, HMS Collingwood, 15 March 2012 and repeated to members of the naval staff at MoD
main building, Whitehall, 24 April 2012
‘The Migrated Archives: Colonial Administration Records at the National Archives’, Entente Room,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Charles Street, 13 April 2012 and longer version at National
Archives, 18 April 2012
‘Defence is different: Margaret Thatcher, Francis Pym and British defence policy 1979-80’, IHR
International History Seminar, 1 November 2011
‘From east of Suez to east of Gibraltar: the Royal Navy and the formation of the Mediterranean
strategy in 1968’ at 23rd British International History Group conference, University of Strathclyde, 9
September 2011
‘The British Official Record’ at Dag Hammarskjold, the United Nations and the End of Empire,
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2 September 2011
Methods in contemporary history panel: paper on ‘Resources at the National Archives’, Kings
College London, 7 July 2011
‘Records on Colonial Development at The National Archives’ at Development and Empire 1929-62
conference, University of York, 2 July 2011
Media experience
National, international and local television and radio interviews (recorded and live) as National
Archives representative for end of year and intelligence document releases from 2006 to 2012. The
most recent of these included interviews on the release of Charlie Chaplin’s Security Service file
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17072165.
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