Professor Matthew Seligmann
Professor of Naval History
Marie Jahoda 212
- Email: matthew.seligmann@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267261
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Seligmann, MS. (2023) 'Competing Narratives on Economic Warfare: The Unlikely Origin of Archibald Bell’s Unwanted History of the Blockade of Germany'. The International History Review, 46 (4). pp. 458 - 470. ISSN: 0707-5332 Open Access Link
Seligmann, M. (2023) 'Sir Henry Newbolt, the Naval Staff, and the Writing of the Official History of the Origins and Inauguration of Convoy in 1917'. Journal of Military History (US), 87 (1). pp. 125 - 144. ISSN: 0899-3718
Seligmann, M. (2022) '‘Mass anywhere on Sea or Land’: Catholicism and the Royal Navy, 1901-1906'. War in History, 29 (4). pp. 763 - 781. ISSN: 0968-3445 Open Access Link
Seligmann, MS. (2022) 'Review of The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How globalized trade led Britain to its worst defeat of the First World War'. The Mariner's Mirror, 108 (1). pp. 102 - 107. ISSN: 0025-3359
Seligmann, M. (2021) '‘The Special Service Squadron of the Royal Marines’: The Royal Navy and Organic Amphibious Warfare Capability before 1914'. Journal of Strategic Studies, 44 (5). pp. 715 - 736. ISSN: 0140-2390 Open Access Link
Seligmann, M. (2020) 'Britain and Economic Warfare in German Naval Thinking in the Era of the Great War', in Morgan-Owen, D. and Halewood, L. (eds.) Economic Warfare and the Sea: Grand Strategies for Maritime Powers, 1650-1945. Liverpool UP. pp. 193 - 208. ISBN 10: 1789621593. ISBN 13: 9781789621594.
Seligmann, M. (2019) 'Widening Horizons: New Directions in the Scholarship on Sea Power and Security'. War in History, 26 (1). pp. 124 - 138. ISSN: 0968-3445
Seligmann, M. (2018) 'Rum, Sodomy, Prayers, and the Lash Revisited: Winston Churchill and Social Reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915'. New York: Oxford University Press. ISSN 13: 9780198759973
Seligmann, M. (2018) 'A Service Ready for Total War? The State of the Royal Navy in July 1914'. The English Historical Review, 133 (560). pp. 98 - 122. ISSN: 0013-8266 Open Access Link
Seligmann, M. (2017) 'The Greatest Danger to this Country that Exists': German Plans for Commerce Warfare in British Naval Thinking', inBid for World Power? New Research on the Outbreak of the First World War. ISBN 10: 0198792417.
Seligmann, M. (2017) 'Failing to Prepare for the Great War? The Absence of Grand Strategy in British War Planning before 1914'. War in History, 24 (4). pp. 414 - 437. ISSN: 1477-0385 Open Access Link
Seligmann, M. (2016) 'The Evolution of a Warship Type: The Role and Function of the Battle Cruiser in Admiralty Plans on the Eve of the First World War', inStrategy and the Sea Essays in Honour of John B. Hattendorf. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 138 - 147. ISBN 10: 1783270985.
Seligmann, M. (2016) 'A Great American Scholar of the Royal Navy? The Disputed Legacy of Arthur Marder Revisited'. International History Review, 38 (5). pp. 1040 - 1054. ISSN: 0707-5332 Open Access Link
Seligmann, M. (2016) 'Germany’s Ocean Greyhounds and the Royal Navy’s First Battle Cruisers: An Historiographical Problem'. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 27 (1). pp. 162 - 182. ISSN: 1557-301X Open Access Link
Seligmann, M. (2015) 'The Anglo-German Naval Race, 1898-1914', inArms Races in International Politics: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Oxford University Press. pp. 21 - 40. ISBN 10: 0191054208. ISBN 13: 9780191054204.
Seligmann, M. (2015) 'Naval History by Conspiracy Theory: The British Admiralty before the First World War and the Methodology of Revisionism'. Journal of Strategic Studies, 38 (7). pp. 966 - 984. ISSN: 1743-937X Open Access Link
Seligmann, MS. and Morgan-Owen, D. (2015) 'Evolution or Revolution? British Naval Policy in the Fisher Era'. Journal of Strategic Studies, 38 (7). pp. 937 - 943. ISSN: 0140-2390 Open Access Link
Seligmann, M., Epkenhans, M. and Naegler, F. (2015) 'The Naval Route to the Abyss: The Anglo-German Naval Race 1895-1914'. Ashgate. ISSN 13: 9781472440938
Seligmann, MS. (2014) 'Zwischen Empire und Kontinent: Britische Außenpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg'. Journal of Strategic Studies, 37 (6-7). pp. 1066 - 1071. ISSN: 0140-2390
Seligmann, M. (2014) 'Military Intelligence from Germany 1906-1914'. The History Press for the Army Records Society. ISSN 13: 978-0-7509-6071-7
Seligmann, M. and Seligmann. (2013) 'The Renaissance of Pre-First World War Naval History'. Journal of Strategic Studies, 36 (3). pp. 454 - 479. ISSN: 0140-2390
Seligmann, M. (2013) ''Lion and Tiger at Dogger Bank: the View of the Ships' Medical Officers'.', inWarship 2013. Conway Maritime. pp. 66 - 77. ISBN 13: 978-1-84486-205-4.
Seligmann, M. (2012) 'Britain's Great Security Mirage: The Royal Navy and the Franco-Russian Naval Threat, 1898–1906'. Journal of Strategic Studies, 35 (6). pp. 861 - 886. ISSN: 0140-2390 Open Access Link
Seligmann, MS. (2012) 'The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914'. OUP Oxford. ISSN 10: 0199574030 ISSN 13: 9780199574032 Open Access Link
Seligmann, M. (2012) 'A German preference for a medium-range battle? British assumptions about German naval gunnery, 1914-1915'. War in History, 19 (1). pp. 33 - 48. ISSN: 0968-3445
Seligmann, MS. (2010) 'A Prelude to the Reforms of Admiral Sir John Fisher: The Creation of the Home Fleet, 1902-1903'. Historical Research, 83 (221). pp. 506 - 519. ISSN: 0950-3471
Seligmann, MS. (2010) 'Intelligence Information and the 1909 Naval Scare: The Secret Foundations of a Public Panic'. War in History, 17 (1). pp. 37 - 59. ISSN: 0968-3445 Open Access Link
Seligmann, M. (2009) 'Lieutenant-Colonel Delmé-Radcliffe’s Report on the 1906 Eruption of Vesuvius, Italy: Some Further Comments and some Corrections of an Historical Nature.'. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 179 (3-4). pp. 270 - 271. ISSN: 0377-0273
Hughes, M. and Seligmann, MS. (2009) 'Losing the peace'.
Seligmann, MS. (2008) 'Switching horses: The admiralty's recognition of the threat from Germany, 1900-1905'. International History Review, 30 (2). pp. 237 - 258. ISSN: 0707-5332
Seligmann, M. (2008) 'Prince Louis of Battenberg: The Advantages and Disadvantages of being a Serene Highness in the Royal Navy', inRoyal Kinship: Anglo-German Family Networks 1815-1918. Saur Verlag. ISBN 13: 978-3-598-23003-5.
Seligmann, M. (2008) 'While I am in it I am nor of it': A Naval Attaché’s Reflections of the Conduct of British Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, 1906-1908’', in Mößlang, M. and Riotte, T. (eds.) The Diplomats’ World: A Cultural History of Diplomacy 1815-1914. OUP.
Seligmann, MS. (2008) 'New weapons for new targets: Sir John Fisher, the threat from Germany, and the building of HMS Dreadnought and HMS Invincible, 1902-1907'. International History Review, 30 (2). pp. 303 - 331. ISSN: 0707-5332
Seligmann, M. (2007) 'Conference Report. Royal Kinship: Anglo-German Family Networks 1760-1914'. Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London, 29 (1). pp. 140 - 145. ISSN: 0269-8552
Seligmann, MS. (2007) 'Naval intelligence from Germany'. Ashgate Publishing. ISSN 10: 0754661571 ISSN 13: 9780754661573
Seligmann, MS. (2006) 'Spies in Uniform'. Oxford University Press, USA. ISSN 10: 0199261504 ISSN 13: 9780199261505
Seligmann, M. (2006) 'Hors de Combat? The Management, Mismanagement and Mutilation of the War Office Archive'. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 84 (337). pp. 52 - 58. ISSN: 0037-9700
Seligmann, M. (2006) 'Germany, the Russo-Japanese War and the Road to the Great War', in Kowner, R. (ed.) The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War. Routledge. pp. 109 - 123. ISBN 13: 9780415368247.
Seligmann, M. (2005) 'Queen Victoria’s Secret: Why the Nazis wanted a British Monarch’s Birth Certificate'. BBC History magazine.
Seligmann, MS. (2003) 'Military Diplomacy in a Military Monarchy? Wilhelm II's Relations with the British Service Attaches in Berlin, 1903-1914.', in Mombauer, A. and Deist, W. (eds.) The Kaiser. Cambridge University Press. pp. 176 - 194. ISBN 10: 0521824087. ISBN 13: 9780521824088.
Hughes, M. and Seligmann, MS. (2002) 'Does peace lead to war?'. The History Press.
Seligmann, M. (2002) ''A Barometer of National Confidence': A British Assessment of the Role of Insecurity in the Formulation of German Military Policy before the First World War'. The English Historical Review, 107 (471). pp. 333 - 355. ISSN: 0013-8266
Seligmann, M. (2002) 'Conference Report: German and British Imperialism in Comparative Perspective'. German History, 20 (2). pp. 225 - 228. ISSN: 0266-3554
Seligmann, M. (2000) 'A View from Berlin: Colonel Frederick Trench and the Development of British Perceptions of German Aggressive Intent, 1906-1910'. The Journal of Strategic Studies, 23 (2). pp. 114 - 147. ISSN: 0140-2390
Hughes, M. and Seligmann, MS. (2000) 'Leadership in conflict, 1914-1918'. Pen & Sword Books.
Seligmann, MS. and McLean, RR. (2000) 'Germany from Reich to Republic, 1871-1918'. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 10: 0312232926 ISSN 13: 9780312232924
Seligmann, M. (2000) 'James Watson Gerard: American Diplomat as Domestic Propagandist', in Hughes, M. and Seligmann, MS. (eds.) Leadership in Cinflict 1914-1918. Pen & Sword. pp. 158 - 176. ISBN 10: 0850527511.
Seligmann, M. (1999) 'Conference Report: Imperium/Empire/Reich: An Anglo-German Comparison of a Concept of Rule'. German History, 17 (2). pp. 251 - 258. ISSN: 0266-3554
Seligmann, M. and Hughes, M. (1999) 'The Battle for the Dodecanese, 1943: A Reassessment'. The Imperial War Museum Review, 12. pp. 109 - 116.
Seligmann, M. (1999) 'Conference Report. Maps as the Expression of German Colonial Ambitions: South African Examples and British Reactions'. The British Cartographic Society Proceedings, 36. pp. 59 - 63.