Nicholas Rodger

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Professor Nicholas Andrew Martin Rodger (born 12 November 1949) is professor of naval history at the University of Exeter, England.

1 Life and academia
2 Work
3 Major Works
4 External link

[edit] Life and academia

The son of Lieutenant Commander Ian Alexander Rodger, Royal Navy, of Arundel, Sussex, and Sara Mary, née Perceval, Rodger was educated at Ampleforth and University College, Oxford, where he earned his D.Phil. degree in 1974 with a thesis on "Naval policy and cruiser design, 1865-1890". He served for seventeen years at the Public Record Office as an Assistant Keeper of Public Records, 1974-1991. After resigning from the public service, he began a Naval History of Britain with the support of the National Maritime Museum, the Navy Records Society and the Society for Nautical Research. The Museum gave him the title of Anderson Senior Research Fellow, 1992-1998. In 1999, he moved to the University of Exeter as Senior Lecturer, and the following year was appointed Professor of Naval History.

He served as Honorary Secretary of the Navy Records Society from 1976-1990. He is also a member of the Society of Antiquaries (1985) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1980). He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.

[edit] Work

He is currently engaged in writing a comprehensive history of the Royal Navy. The first two volumes: Safeguard of the Sea and Command of the Ocean have both been highly critically acclaimed. He has been awarded the Corbett Prize for Naval History. His book The Admiralty was chosen by the U.S. Naval Institute as one of the best books of the 1980s. He received the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature in 2005 and was also the winner of the 2005 British Academy Book Prize.

[edit] Major Works

The Admiralty (1979)

Articles of war : the statutes which governed our fighting navies, 1661, 1749, and 1886 (1982)

The Naval miscellany, vol 5 Navy Records Society (1983)

The wooden world: an anatomy of the Georgian Navy (1986)

Naval records for genealogists (1984, 1988, 1998)

The Armada in the Public Records (1988)

Navies and armies: the Anglo-Dutch relationship in war and peace 1688-1988 edited by G.J.A. Raven and N.A.M. Rodger; assistant editor M.C.F. van Drunen (1990)

The insatiable earl: a life of John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1718-1792 (1993)

British Naval Documents 1204-1960 eds. Prof. J.B. Hattendorf, Dr. R.J.B. Knight, A.W.H. Pearsall, Dr. N.A.M. Rodger, Prof. G.Till, Capt. A.B. Sainsbury, Navy Records Society (1993)