Andrew David Lambert FRHist.S.
Laughton Professor of Naval History,
Dept. of War Studies,
King's College,
London WC2R 2LS.
Publications:
Books:
Battleships in Transition: The Creation of the Steam Battlefleet 1815-1860. London 1984
The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia 1853-1856. Manchester 1990
The Last Sailing Battlefleet: Maintaining Naval Mastery 1815-1850. London 1991
Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815-1905. London 1992
'The Foundations of Naval History': Sir John Laughton, the Royal Navy and the Historical
Profession. London 1997
Brunel’s Ships London 1999, with Dennis Griffiths and Fred Walker. London 1999
War at Sea in the Age of Sail. London 2000.
Trincomalee: The last of Nelson’s Frigates. London 2002
Nelson: Britannia’s God of War. London 2004
Admirals: the Naval Commanders who made Britain Great. London 2008
Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation. London 2009
Ship: A History in Art and Photography. Conway Press, London 2010
HMS Warrior 1860: Victoria’s Ironclad Deterrent. Conway Press London 2011, 2nd revised
edn. 1st edn. London 1987. May 2011
The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia 1853-1856. Second revised edition,
Ashgate Publishing , Farnham. November 2011. Ist edn. Manchester 1990
The Challenge: Britain against America in the Naval War of 1812. Faber & Faber London April
2012
Articles (selected):
'Politics, Technology and Policy-Making, 1859-1865: Palmerston, Gladstone and the
Management of the Ironclad Naval Race' in The Northern Mariner VIII July 1998 pp.9-38
'Responding to the Nineteenth Century: the Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw
Propeller' History of Technology 1999
‘”This Is All We Want”: Great Britain and the Baltic Approaches 1815-1914.’ In Sevaldsen,
J. ed. Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th
Centuries. Copenhagen 2003. pp.147-169.
‘History as Process and Record: The Royal Navy and Officer Education.’ in Kennedy, G C &
Neilsen, K. Military Education: Past, Present and Future. Westport, Connecticut 2002
‘Strategy, Policy and Shipbuilding: The Bombay dockyard, the Indian Navy and Imperial
Security in the Eastern Seas, 1784-1869.’ In Bowen, H.V., Lincoln, M. & Rigby, N. eds. Worlds
of the East India Company. Woodbridge 2002.
‘”Good, while it lasts”. Great Britain and the Crimean War Coalition, 1854-1856.’in Showalter,
D. E. ed. Future Wars: Coalition Operations in Global Strategy. Chicago 2002.
‘Winning with out Fighting: British Grand Strategy and its application to the United States,
1815 – 1865’ in Lee, B. & Walling. K. eds. Strategic Logic and Political Rationality: Essays in
honour of Michael J. Handel. United States Naval War College, 2003. ISBN 07146 5484
‘Wirtschaftliche Macht, technologischer Vorsprung und Imperiale Stärke: GrossBritannien als
einzigartige globale Macht: 1860 bis 1890’ in Epkenhans, M. & Gross, G.P. Das Militär und
der Aufbruch die Moderne 1860 bis 1890 Munich 2003.
‘Great Britain and Maritime Law from the Declaration of Paris to the Era of Total War.’ In
Hobson, R. & Kristiansen, T. eds. Navies in Northern Waters: 1721-2000. London 2004. pp.1140.
Looking for gunboats: British Naval operations in the Gulf of Bothnia, 1854–55. Journal of
Maritime Research June 2004. www/JMR.
“Retracing the Captain: ’Extreme History’, hard tack and scurvy.” In Williams, G. ed. Captain
Cook: Explorations and Reassessments. Woodbridge 2004.
“Laughton’s Legacy: naval history at King’s College, London. “ in Historical Research:
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research May 2004 pp. 274-288.
‘William, Lord Hotham’ in Harding, R & Lefevre, P. eds. British Admirals of the Napoleonic
Wars: The Contemporaries of Nelson. London 2005
‘Nelson and Trafalgar: The Legacy’ in Stilwell, A. ed. The Trafalgar Companion. London
2005.
‘Making a Victorian Nelson: Albert, Nicolas and the Arts.’ in Cross. A & Lewis-Jones, H. eds.
The Trafalgar Chronicle 2005.
‘The Legacy of Trafalgar: Two Centuries of Contested Meaning’ in The Royal United Services
Institute Journal December 2005 Vol. 150 no.6. pp. 72-77.
‘The Development of Education in the Royal Navy: 1854-1914’ in Till, G. ed. The Development
of British Naval Thinking: Essays in memory of Bryan Ranft. Abingdon 2006 pp.34-59.
‘The Magic of Trafalgar: The Nineteenth Century legacy.’ In Cannadine, D. ed. Trafalgar in
History: A Battle and it’s Aftermath. London 2006 pp.155-174.
‘Bomarsund I ett internationellt perspecktiv’ in Ǻländsk Odling2004-2005. Mareihamn Alkand
2006 pp. 152-187
‘“The Glory of England.” Nelson, Trafalgar and the meaning of Victory.’ The Vaughan Evans
Memorial Lecture 2005 in The Great Circle: Journal for the Australian Association for
Maritime History. Vol. 28 no. 1. 2006 pp. 3-12.
‘Robert Seppings and the British Technical response to the lessons of Trafalgar’ in FernandezGonzales, F, Ferreiro, L. D. & Nowacki, H. Technology of the Ships at Trafalgar. Ch. 18
Madrid 2006
edited Naval History 1850–Present, Volumes I and II In the Ashgate Publishing series ‘The
International Library of Essays on Military History.’ 2 vols. Published February 2007 1762
pages.
‘The Development of Education in the Royal Navy: 1854-1914’ in Till, G. ed. The
Development of British Naval Thinking: Essays in Memory of Bryan Ranft. Abingdon 2006
pp.34-59. Bryan Ranft was the first Professor to teach Naval History in the Department of War
Studies, which he did alongside his job at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich from 1970 to
1983. The volume includes essays by many of his students at Kings.
‘The Magic of Trafalgar: The Nineteenth Century legacy.’ in Cannadine, D. ed. Trafalgar in
History: A Battle and its Aftermath. London 2006 pp.155-174. The proceedings of a major
Trafalgar Conference at the University of London in the summer of 2005 – edited by the then
Director of the Institute of Historical Research. An important volume, placing naval history in
the broadest historical context.
‘Bomarsund I ett internationellt perspecktiv’ in Ǻländsk Odling2004-2005. Mareihamn Alkand
2006 pp. 152-187. A multi-lingual project examining the strategic history of an important Baltic
archipelago.
‘“The Glory of England.” Nelson, Trafalgar and the meaning of Victory.’ The Vaughan Evans
Memorial Lecture 2005 in The Great Circle: Journal for the Australian Association for
Maritime History. Vol. 28 no. 1. 2006 pp. 3-12.
‘Robert Seppings and the British Technical response to the lessons of Trafalgar’ in FernandezGonzales, F, Ferreiro, L. D. & Nowacki, H. Technology of the Ships at Trafalgar. Ch. 18
Madrid 2006. A major technical study of ship design and technology produced by the Spanish
School of Naval Architecture.
‘Naval Warfare’ in Hughes, M. & Philpott, W.J. eds. Palgrave Advances in Modern Military
History. pp. 172-194 Basingstoke 2006. A reading guide for war studies students. It should be
noted that the two naval chapters were written in the Unit.
Naval history subject editor of the multi award winning 4 volume The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Maritime History published April 2007.
‘Naval History for Strategists’ in Osservatario the Journal of the Italian Institute for Naval
Studies 2007.
‘Fra Trafalgar til Købehaven. Udviklingen af den britiske strategi’ in Glenthøj & Rahbeck eds.
Det Venskabelige bombardment Købehaven 1807 som historisk begivenhed of national myte.’
Copenhagen 2007
‘Arms Races and cooperation: the Anglo-French Crimean War coalition, 1854-1856’ in
Elleman, B.A. & Paine, S.C.M eds. Naval Coalition Warfare: From the Napoleonic War to
Operation Iraqi Freedom. London 2008 pp.33-47
‘Politics, Administration and Decision-Making: Wellington and the Navy, 1828-30’ in
Woolgar, C. ed. Wellington Studies IV. University of Southampton 2008 pp. 185-243.
‘Taking the President: HMS Endymion and the USS President 15 January 1815.’ McLean, D.
ed. Fighting at Sea: Naval Battles from the Ages of Sail and Steam. Quebec 2008 pp.86-128
‘The Possibility of Ultimate Action in the Baltic’ Die Royal Navy im Krieg, 1914-1916. in
Epkenhans, M. Hillman, J, & Nägler, F. eds. Skagerrakschlact: Voergeschichte _ Ereignis _
Verarbeitung. Oldnebourg Verlag Munich 2009
‘Nelson: Searching for the Sublime.’ in Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the American
Historical Society June 2009 pp. 13-17.
‘Slavery, Free Trade and Naval Strategy.’ in Hamilton, K. & Salmon, P. eds. Slavery,
Diplomacy and Empire: Britain and the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1807-1975. Brighton
2009 pp. 65-80.
Lambert, A.D. ‘The Limits of Naval Power: The Merchant Brig Three Sisters, Riff Pirates
and British Battteships.’ In Elleman, B.A., Forbes, A. & Rosenberg, D. eds. Piracy and
Maritime Crime; Historical and Modern Case Studies. Naval War College Press 2010 pp.
173-190.,
‘The Naval War Course, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy and the Origins of the ‘British
Way in Warfare.’ in Neilson, K, & Kennedy, G. eds. The British Way in Warfare: Power and
the International System, 1856-1956: essays in honour of David French. Ashgate Farnham
2010 pp.219-256
‘Sea Power’ in Kassimeris, G. & Buckley, J. eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern
Warfare. Farnham Surry, 2010 pp. 73-88
John Scott Russell Ships, Science and Scandal in the Age of Transition. International Journal
for the History of Engineering Technology (ISSN: 1758-1206); Volume 81, No. 1, pp. 60-
78(19); January 2011
‘The Royal Navy’s White Sea Campaign of 1854’ in Elleman, B.A. & Paine, S.C.M. eds.
Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare: peripherals campaigns and new theatres of naval
warfare. Routledge, London 2011 pp. 29-44.
‘The Construction of Naval History 1815-1914.The Mariner’s Mirror vol. 97.1.February
2011 pp.207-224.
‘The Ultimate Test: The Fourteenth Earl, the Admiralty and the Ministry of 1852.’ In Hicks
G. ed. Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820-1920: The Derbys and their World.
Ashgate Press Farnham 2011 pp. 41-58.
‘The Limits of Naval Power; the merchant brig Three Sisters, Riff Pirates, and British
Battleships. In Elleman, B, Forbes, A. & Rosenberg, D. eds. Piracy and Maritime Crime:
Historical and Modern Case Studies. Newport Papers, No. 35, United States Naval War
College, Newport 2011 pp. 173-190.
Edited Volumes:
The War Correspondents: The Crimean War. (with Dr S. Badsey) Gloucester 1994
Introduction and edited correspondence: James, W. A Naval History of Great Britain (1826).
Six volumes. London 2002
Letters and Papers of Sir John Knox Laughton, 1830-1915. London Navy Records Society,
2002.
Introduction: James W. Naval Occurrences of the War of 1812 (1817) . London 1817 2004. .
Naval History 1815- Present. Aldershot 2 vols. 2006.
Dreadnought and the Edwardian Age. Ed. with Robert Blyth and Jan Rüger. Ashgate
Publishing, Farnham May 2011