Dr Seán Lang is a Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, where he specialises 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 International Summer Programme and has taught courses on topics including the American and French Revolutions, Napoleon, Victorian politics, the British Empire, British rule in India and the First and Second World Wars.
He has published on British medical work in British India and 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 has recently published on young people's writings at the end of the First World War and contributed a chapter to The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill. He is currently working on a collection of essays called What History Do We Need?
He has written extensively for the theatre and has had work performed in Cambridge, London, Oxford, Norwich, Canada, Australia, Ireland and at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Dr Lang is a former Honorary Secretary of the Historical Association and has worked both with government and with the Council of Europe on developments in school history.
