Matthew Hughes
Head of Department
Politics and History
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- BA Geography and History
- MSc (Econ) International Relations
- PhD War Studies
- PGCE History
Personal Biography
Professor Hughes studied Geography and History as an undergraduate at the School of Oriental and African Studies and International Relations as a postgraduate at the London School of Economics. He completed his ESRC-funded PhD in 1995 under the supervision of Professor Brian Holden Reid in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London on the topic of the First World War in Palestine. He has a PGCE in History from Cardiff University. After a spell as an intern with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Professor Hughes lectured at the universities of Northampton and Salford before coming to Brunel University in 2005. Professor Hughes has been a British Academy funded visiting fellow at the American University in Cairo, the American University in Beirut and at Tel Aviv University. He spent two years as the Marine Corps University Foundation-funded Maj-Gen Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Chair in Military Theory at the US Marine Corps University, Quantico, 2008-10.
Research
Research Overview
Professor Hughes is part of the War and Conflict research group in the Department of Politics and History at Brunel University. He is interested in war and history broadly understood, and is currently working on a funded-project examining British methods of colonial pacification and counter-insurgency, with particular reference to Palestine in the British Mandate period.
Current Projects
United States Marine Corps University Foundation
The Opaque War: Britain’s Pacification of Palestine, 1936-39
$50,000
2008 - 2010
Matthew Hughes (PI)
Recently Completed Projects
United States Marine Corps University Foundation
British Ways of Countering Colonial Revolt: A Historical Perspective
£6,000
15-16 September 2012
Matthew Hughes (PI)
PhD Supervision
William Tyson-Banks: Allied Military Government in Italy, 1943-45; 2010 -
Michael Joel: US Marine Corps Intervention in Lebanon, 1958; 2011 -
Peter Roberts: Counter-insurgency in Sri Lanka; 2010 -
Teaching
Undergraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Total War
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
Postgraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
- War in History, 1789 -
Administration
- Senior Tutor 2010 - 2012
- Head of Department, 2012 -
External Activity
External examiner at King’s College London, Wolverhampton, Joint Services
Command and Staff College, Cambridge and Strathclyde
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 2002 –
Justice of the Peace, 2008-
Editorial Board, Mars & Clio: The Journal of the British Commission for Military History (2013)
Editor, ‘Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research’ 2004 – 2008
Councillor, Army Records Society, 2001 - 2005, 2006 - 2010, 2011 –
Honorary Officer of the Society for Army Historical Research, 2004 – 2008
Templer Sub-Committee Panel Judge for the Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal Award, 2003 - 2004, 2007 – 2008
Editorial Board,T. E. Lawrence Studies (2006 - )
Editorial Board, Journal of Maltese History (2008 - )
Editor on the Board of Contributing Editors (headed by Gordon Martel) for five-volume Encyclopaedia of War (New York and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
Manuscript reviewing for: Army Records Society, Ashgate, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave/Macmillan, Pickering & Chatto, Polity Press, Proceedings of the British Academy, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council, National Cataloguing Grants Scheme, English Historical Review, First World War Studies, Historical Journal, Intelligence and National Security, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Journal of Maltese History, Journal of Military History, Journal of Palestine Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Security Dialogue, Twentieth Century British History, War in History and World Archaeology
Co-Organiser for British Academy funded international conference with speakers from UK, Ireland, America and Australia: ‘Fanaticism and Modern Conflict’ at the Research & Graduate College, University of Salford, 14-16 June 2002. Papers published in Matthew Hughes and Gaynor Johnson (eds),Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age (London: Taylor & Francis 2005). Organiser of Centre for Conflict Studies seminar series (three-four speakers per semester) at the University of Salford, February 2001-June 2003.
Organiser of ‘CAMPUS’ International Symposium at the University of Salford (with visiting fellow Dr Yigal Sheffy), Research & Graduate College, ‘Chemical Weapons in the Middle East in the First World War’, 15 July 2004.
Scientific Committee member and organiser for international conference ‘The Palestine Campaign – 90 Years On’, Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel, 3-6 September 2007. Papers published as Haim Goren et al (eds), Palestine and World War I: Grand Strategy, Military Tactics and Culture of War (London:
I.B. Tauris, 2013).
Organiser of US Marine Corps University Foundation/Brunel University funded international conference: ‘”Butcher and Bolt” or “Hearts and Minds”? British Ways in Countering Insurgency: Some Historical Perspectives’, Senate House, University of London, 15-16 September 2011. Papers published in Matthew Hughes (ed.), special issue ofSmall Wars and Insurgencies (2012) and then Matthew Hughes (ed), British Ways of Counter-insurgency: A Historical Perspective (Oxford: Routledge 2013).
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2013) Hughes, M., Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives, International History Review 34 (4) : 920- 922
(2012) Hughes, M., Anglo-Italian Relations in the Middle East, 1922-1940, ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW 127 (529) : 1575- 1577
(2012) Hughes, M., Trouble in Palestine, BBC History Magazine 13 (May 2012) (5) : 39- 42
(2012) Hughes, M., Trouble in Palestine, British Army Review Spring-Summer 2012 (154) : 102- 108
(2012) Hughes, M., ‘Introduction: British Ways of Counter-insurgency’, Small Wars and Insurgencies 23 (4-5) : 580- 590
(2012) Hughes, M., ‘Soldiers and Civilians: US Servicemen and the Battle for Saipan, 1944’, First Marianas History Conference: One Archipelago, Many Stories. World War II: History 180- 186
(2012) Hughes, M., Book review of Keith Neilson and Greg Kennedy, The British Way in Warfare: Power and the International System, 1856-1956: Essays in Honour of David French 26/2 (2012), Contemporary British History 26 (2) : 259- 260
(2012) Hughes, M., Journal Special Issue: British Ways of Counter-Insurgency: A Historical Perspective. Guest Editor: Matthew Hughes, Small Wars and Insurgencies 23 (4-5) : 577- 807
(2012) Hughes, M., Review of David French, The British Way in Counter-insurgency, 1945-67 in Journal of Military History 76/3 (July 2012), 853-55., Journal of Military History (US) 76 (3) : 853- 855
(2012) Hughes, M., Review of Esther Webman, The Global Impact of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Summer 2012), 554-56, Middle East Journal 66 (3) : 554- 556
(2011) Hughes, M., Review of Martin Kitchen's 'Rommel's Desert War', International History Review 33 (3) : 556- 557
(2011) Hughes, M., Desert hell: The British invasion of Mesopotamia, Journal of Military History 75 (3) : 940- 942
(2011) Hughes, M., Gallipoli: The End of the Myth, English Historical Review 126 (519) : 485- 487
(2011) Hughes, M., The imperial magistrate: A global and historical perspective, The Magistrate
(2011) Hughes, M., ‘War Without Mercy? American Armed Forces and the Deaths of Civilians during the Battle for Saipan, 1944', Journal of Military History 75 (1) : 93- 123
(2011) Hughes, M., A History of Violence: The Shooting of British Assistant Police Superintendent Alan Sigrist, 12 June 1936’, Journal of Contemporary History 45 (4) : 725- 743
(2010) Hughes, M., Motti Golani, The end of the British mandate in Palestine: The diary of Sir Henry Gurney, Journal of the British Records Association 35 (123) : 92- 93
(2010) Hughes, M., Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East, HISTORY 95 (319) : 358- 359
(2010) Hughes, M., War since 1990, HISTORY 95 (319) : 393- 394
(2010) Hughes, M., From law and order to pacification: Britain's suppression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939, Journal of Palestine Studies 39 (2) : 6- 22 Download publication
(2010) Hughes, M., Assassination in Jerusalem: Bahjat Abu Gharbiyah and Sami Al-Ansari’s shooting of British Assistant Superintendent Alan Sigrist 12th June 1936, Jerusalem Quarterly 44 5- 13
(2010) Hughes, M., Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW 32 (2) : 370- 372
(2010) Hughes, M., When soldiers kill civilians: The battle for Saipan, 1944, History Today 60 (2) : 42- 48 Download publication
(2009) Hughes, M., A very British affair? The repression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936-39 (Part one), Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 87 (351) : 234- 255 Download publication
(2009) Hughes, M., A very British affair? The repression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936-39 (Part two), Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 87 (352) : 357- 373 Download publication
(2009) Hughes, M., Book review on The Lebanese army: a national institution in a divided society by Oren Barak, published in New York by the State University of New York Press, The Middle East Journal 63 (4) : 678- 679
(2009) Hughes, M., The banality of brutality: British Armed forces and the repression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936-39, The English Historical Review 124 (507) : 313- 354 Download publication
(2009) Hughes, M., The practice and theory of British counterinsurgency: The histories of the atrocities at the Palestinian villages of al-Bussa and Halhul, 1938-1939, Small Wars and Insurgencies 20 (3-4) : 528- 550 Download publication
(2008) Hughes, M., Book review on 1948: The first Arab-Israeli war by Benny Morris, published in New Haven, Conneticut by Yale University Press, The Journal of Military History 72 (3) : 978- 979
(2008) Hughes, M., Book review on Empires of intelligence: Security services and colonial disorder after 1914 by Martin Thomas, published in Berkeley, USA by University of California Press, The Journal of Military History 72 (2) : 593- 594
(2008) Hughes, M., Book review on Paraguay and the United States: Distant allies by Frank O Mora and Jerry W Cooney, published in Athens, USA by University of Georgia Press, The Americas 65 (2) : 294- 295
(2008) Hughes, M., Book review on The battle for Palestine, 1917 by John Grainger, published in Rochester, NY by Woodbridge:Boydell Press, History 93 (311) : 400- 401
(2008) Hughes, M., Book review on The battle for Palestine, 1917 by John Grainger, published in Rochester, NY by Woodbridge:Boydell Press, English Historical Review 123 (501) : 503- 504
(2008) Hughes, M., British private armies in the Middle East: the Arab legion and the Trans-Jordan frontier force, 1920-1956, Royal United Services Institute Journal 153 (2) : 70- 75
(2008) Hughes, M., 'Collateral damage’ and the battle for Saipan, 1944, Royal United Services Institute Journal 153 (6) : 78- 81
(2008) Hughes, M., Larry Kahaner, AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War, Radical Philosophy 147 58- 61
(2007) Hughes, M., Book review on Ottoman army effectiveness in World War I: a comparative study by E Erikson, Journal of Military History 71 (4) : 1262- 1263
(2007) Hughes, M., Book review on The battle for Palestine, 1917 by John Grainger, published in Rochester, NY by Woodbridge:Boydell Press, Journal of Military History 71 (3) : 938- 940
(2006) Hughes, M., Book review on Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East by D Woodward, Journal of Military History 70 (3) : 854- 856
(2006) Hughes, M., Book review on I die with my country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan war, 1864-1870 by H Kraay and T Whigham, Journal of Military History 70 (1) : 242- 243
(2005) Hughes, M., Lebanon's Armed Forces and the Arab-Israeli war, 1948-49, Journal of Palestine Studies 34 (2) : 24- 41
(2005) Hughes, M., Book Review on Richard F. Hamilton and Holger Herwig (eds), Decisions for War, 1914–1917. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp.266. £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0521545307, Journal of Strategic Studies 28 (4) : 740- 742
(2005) Hughes, M., The French army at Gallipoli, The RUSI Journal 150 (3) : 64- 67
(2005) Hughes, M., What did the Arab revolt contribute to the Palestine campaign? An assessment, Journal of the T. E. Lawrence Society 15 (2) : 64- 67
(2005) Hughes, M., Elie Kedourie and the capture of Damascus, 1 October 1918: A reassessment, War & Society 23 (1) : 87- 106
(2005) Hughes, M., Logistics and the Chaco war: Bolivia versus Paraguay, 1932-1935, The Journal of Military History 69 (2) : 411- 437 Download publication
(2005) Hughes, M., T. E. Lawrence., JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY 69 (4) : 1232- 1233
(2005) Hughes, M., Warfare in the Western World 1882-1975., JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC STUDIES 28 (3) : 560- 561
(2003) Hughes, M., Fighting for White rule in Africa: The Central African Federation, Katanga and the Congo crisis, 1958-1965, International History Review 25 (3) : 592- 615 Download publication
(2003) Hughes, M., The Central African Federation, Katanga and the Congo Crisis, 1958-65, European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford: Working Papers in Military and International History Number 2
(2002) Hughes, M., The 'European aldershot' for the second world war? The battle of the Ebro, 1938, The RUSI Journal 147 (6) : 76- 81
(2002) Hughes, M., Elie Kedourie and the capture of Damascus, 1 October 1918: A reassessment, European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford: Working Papers in Contemporary History and Politics Number 28
(2001) Hughes, M., The strange death of Dag Hammarskjöld, History Today 51 (10) : 2- 3
(2001) Hughes, M., Diary: The Man who Killed Hammarskjöld, London Review of Books 23 (15) : 32- 33
(2001) Hughes, M., Enter the desert fox, BBC History Magazine 2 (2) : 20- 23
(2000) Hughes, M., The October 1973 Arab-Israeli war: Crisis management and coercive bargaining, The RUSI Journal 145 (2) : 86- 92
(1999) Hughes, M. and Garrido, E., Planning and command: The Spanish republican army and the battle of the Ebro, 1938, International Journal of Iberian Studies 12 (2) : 107- 115
(1999) Hughes, M. and Seligmann, M., The battle for the Dodecanese, 1943: A reassessment, Imperial War Museum Review (12) : 109- 116
(1998) Hughes, M., The British battalion of the international brigades and the Spanish civil war, 1936-39, The RUSI Journal 143 (2) : 59- 74
(1997) Hughes, M., Lloyd George, the Generals and the Palestine campaign, 1917-18, Imperial War Museum Review (11) : 4- 17
(1996) Hughes, M., General allenby and the palestine campaign, 1917-18, Journal of Strategic Studies 19 (4) : 59- 88
(1995) Hughes, M., Australians and the fall of Damascus, 1 October 1918, Journal of the Australian War Memorial (26) : 26- 35
(Accepted) Hughes, M., Review of Massimiliano Fiore, Anglo-Italian Relations in the Middle East, 1922-1940 127/529 (December 2012), 1575-1577, The English Historical Review (December 2012) 1575- 1577
(Accepted) Hughes, M., Review of Avi Raz, The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War 67/1 (2013), 139-140, Middle East Journal 2013 (67/1 (2013)) : 139- 140
(Accepted) Hughes, M., A British ‘Foreign Legion’? The British Police in Mandate Palestine, Middle Eastern Studies
Book Chapters
(2013) Hughes, M., ‘Field Marshal Viscount Allenby: One of the Great Captains of History?’. In: Palestine and World War I: Grand Strategy, Military Tactics and Culture of War. London : I. B. Tauris -
(2010) Hughes, M., Lawlessness was the law: British armed forces, the legal system and the repression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939. In: Miller, R. ed. Palestine, Britain and Empire, c.1841-1948. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Limited
(2010) Hughes, M., The Arab legion and the Trans-Jordan frontier force, 1920-48: Private armies or agents of the British Government?. In: Romer, J-C. and Henninger, L. eds. Armées privées, armées d’Etat. Paris : Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire
(2010) Hughes, M., Wartime promises and the post-war empires. In: Martel, G. ed. A Companion to International History (1900-2001). Wiley-Blackwell
(2009) Hughes, M., General Allenby. In: Beckett, IFW. and Corvi, SJ. eds. Haig's Generals. Pen & Sword Military -
(2009) Hughes, M., Command, strategy and the battle for palestine, 1917. In: Beckett, IFW. ed. 1917: Beyond the Western Front. Leiden and Boston : Brill (54) : 113- 130
(2008) Hughes, M., Matthew Hughes, entry on Sir Charles Dobell in Brian Harrison (ed.), The New Dictionary of National Biography. In: . Oxford University Press
(2007) Hughes, M., Collusion across the Litani? Lebanon and the 1948 war. In: Rogan, EL. and Shlaim, A. eds. The war for Palestine: Rewriting the history of 1948. Cambridge University Press
(2007) Hughes, M., The 'European Aldershot' for the second world war? The battle of the Ebro, 1938. In: Black, J. ed. The second world war. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Company (6) : -
(2007) Hughes, M., Science, technology and war. In: Hughes, M. and Philpott, WJ. eds. Palgrave advances in modern military history. Palgrave Macmillan -
(2006) Hughes, M., The gun that changed the world. In: Kalashnikov, MT. and Joly, E. eds. The gun that changed the world. Polity Pr
(2004) Hughes, M., Matthew Hughes, entry on Field Marshal Viscount Allenby in Brian Harrison (ed.), The New Dictionary of National Biography. In: . Oxford University Press
(2001) Hughes, M., Matthew Hughes, Reader’s Guide to Military History. In: Messenger, C. ed. . London: Fitzroy Dearborn
(2001) Hughes, M., Matthew Hughes, The oxford companion to military history. In: Holmes, R. ed. . Oxford University Press
(2000) Hughes, M., Personalities in conflict? Lloyd George, the Generals and the Italian campaign, 1917-1918. In: Hughes, M. and Seligmann, M. eds. Leadership in conflict, 1914-1918. Pen & Sword Books Ltd
(1997) Hughes, M., General Allenby and the Palestine campaign, 1917-1918. In: Reid, BH. ed. Military power: Land warfare in theory and practice. London : Frank Cass Publishers 59- 88
Books
(2009) Hughes, M. and Seligman, MS., Losing the peace: failed settlements and the road to war. The History Press Ltd
(2007) Hughes, M. and Philpott, WJ., Palgrave advances in modern military history. Palgrave Macmillan
(2005) Hughes, M. and Philpott, WJ., The Palgrave concise historical atlas of the First World War. Palgrave MacMillan
(2005) Hughes, M. and Johnson, G., Fanaticism and conflict in the modern age. Routledge
(2004) Hughes, M., Allenby in Palestine: The Middle East correspondence of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby. Sutton Publishing Ltd
(2002) Hughes, M. and Seligman, MS., Does peace lead to war? Peace settlements and conflict in the modern age. History Press
(2000) Hughes, M. and Seligmann, M., Leadership in conflict, 1914-1918. Pen & Sword Books Ltd
(2000) Hart, S., Hart, R. and Hughes, M., The German soldier in World War II. Spellmount, Limited Publishers
(1999) Hughes, M., Allenby and British strategy in the Middle East, 1917-1919. Frank Cass
