Dr Seán Lang is Visiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, where he was for seventeen years Senior Lecturer in History, specialising in modern European history and the history of the British Empire. He has taught widely at school, sixth form and university level and is a regular broadcaster on radio and television, commenting on history, education and current affairs, especially issues relating to the British monarchy. He is a regular lecturer for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and the International Summer Programme and has taught courses on topics including the American and French Revolutions; Napoleon; Victorian politics; the British Empire; the Zulu and Boer Wars; British rule in India; France under the Occupation; and the First and Second World Wars.
He has published on British medical work in colonial India and has written textbooks on
Parliamentary Reform, 1785-1928, Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1939 and Why the First World
War Broke Out as well as four history titles in the popular ‘For Dummies’ series, including First
World War for Dummies; he also contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Winston
Churchill. He is currently working on a study of P.G. Wodehouse in relation to the British Empire.
He is Artistic Director of BOATS Theatre (Based On A True Story), and has had his work performed in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Norwich, Australia, Canada and Ireland.
Dr Lang is President of the Cambridge branch of the Historical Association and is currently planning a major student event to mark the eightieth anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials. He is Chair of Governors at a Cambridge primary school federation and has worked with government and with the Council of Europe on developments in school history.
