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. 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. 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 is currently researching the impact of Empire on the development of Oxford and Cambridge.