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.
He has published on British medical work in British India and 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 The 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 has written extensively for the theatre and has had work performed in Cambridge, London, Oxford, Norwich, Canada, 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.
