David Stevenson (historian)

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Professor David Stevenson delivering a Gresham College lecture in November 2014.

David Stevenson (born 1954) is a British historian specialising in the period of the First World War. He is Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Academic career

Stevenson studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, before receiving a Ph.D. from the same university. He became a Lecturer at the LSE in 1982. In 1998, he was appointed Professor of International History. Between 2004 and 2005, he also received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship "for research on supply and logistics in 1914-1918"[1]

His most recent book is With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, released by Penguin (in the UK) and Belknap Press.[1]

His website can be found at: http://www.davidstevensonlse.co.uk/

Personal life

Professor Stevenson is married and lives in Essex. He has four grandchildren: William, Gemma, Ethan, James, and the family dogs are named Hannah and Oscar.

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