The British Imperial Way of Warfare

Professor Yasmin Khan explores how Empire and Commonwealth shaped British warfare – spotlighting the often overlooked roles of Asian non-combatants and camp-followers in the 19th & 20th centuries. Free and open to all, in Oxford or online.

The British Way of Warfare has become a point of debate and discussion in military history and strategy. Basil Liddell Hart first wrote about the ‘British Way in Warfare’ in 1932, and these ideas have been updated and challenged in the work of Michael Howard and David French. However, if the crucial role of Empire and Commonwealth in this story has been noted, it is too often a footnote. The social history of this story, from the perspective of colonised and decolonised peoples, is still emerging.

ZOOM or in person at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JA