Professor Jeremy Crang (BA, PGCE, PhD, FRHistS, FRSA)

Professor of Modern British History

Biography

Background

Roles

Dean of Students, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Other affiliated schools

SPS

Biography

I was born and brought up in Kent and educated at Sevenoaks School before studying at the universities of Stirling, Oxford and Edinburgh. I was appointed to a lectureship in History at Edinburgh in 1993. I have held visiting fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge (2006 and 2010), and Pembroke College, Oxford (2014).

External appointments

I serve on the editorial board of the Comillas Journal of International Relations (Madrid).

Undergraduate teaching

I am not currently teaching at undergraduate level because of my role as Dean of Students in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Postgraduate teaching

MSc by Research/PhD supervision

Current PhD students supervised

  • Houghton, Frances, PhD, British Second World War military memoirs, Primary

Past PhD students supervised

  • Houghton, Frances, MScR, British Second World War military memoirs, Primary, 2010
  • Spark, Seumas, PhD, The Treatment of the British Military War Dead of the Second World War, Primary, 2010
  • Dunlop, Graham, PhD, British Army Logistics in the Burma Campaign 1942-1945, Primary, 2007
  • Inglis, James, PhD, The early premiership of Lord Liverpool 1812-1815, Secondary, 2006
  • Dunlop, Graham, MScR, British Army Logistics in the Burma Campaign 1942-1945, Primary, 2002

Research summary

Places: 

  • Britain & Ireland

Themes: 

  • War

Periods: 

  • Twentieth Century & After

Research interests

My research interests lie in twentieth-century British History, with a particular interest in the Second World War.

 

Current research activities

I am currently co-editing (with Richard Overy) The Cambridge Companion to the Battle of Britain (CUP). I am also preparing a short book on the iconography of a wartime photograph and a longer book on British public attitudes during the Second World War.

The list below is a subset of the information held on the University of Edinburgh PURE system, and includes Books, Chapters, Articles and Conference contributions. For a full list, including details of other publication types (e.g. reviews), please see the Edinburgh Research Explorer page for Professor Jeremy Crang.

Books - Authored

Crang, J. (2020) Sisters in Arms: Women in the British Armed Forces During the Second World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Crang, J. (2000) The British Army and the People's War 1939-1945. Manchester University Press

Books - Edited

Crang, J. (ed) (2024), Our People's War: Home Intelligence Reports and the Monitoring of British Morale, June 1941-December 1944. 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic

Addison, P. and Crang, J. (eds.) (2020) The Spirit of the Blitz: Home Intelligence and British Morale, September 1940 - June 1941. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Spiers, E., Crang, J. and Strickland, M. (eds.) (2012) A Military History of Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Addison, P. and Crang, J. (eds.) (2011) Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-September 1940. London: Vintage Publishing

Addison, P. and Crang, J. (eds.) (2006) Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden 1945. London: Pimlico

Addison, P. and Crang, J. (eds.) (2000) The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain. London: Pimlico

Articles

Calvin, C., Crang, J., Paterson, L. and Deary, I. (2014) Childhood evacuation during World War II and subsequent cognitive ability: The Scottish Mental Survey 1947. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 5(2), pp. 227-244DOI: https://doi.org/10.14301/llcs.v5i2.255

Crang, J., Spiers, E. and Strickland, M. (2012) Fighting Scots. BBC History Magazine, 13(5), pp. 57-59

Crang, J. (2011) In search of the Dunkirk spirit. BBC History Magazine, 12(5), pp. 58-60

Crang, J. (2010) The revival of the British women's auxiliary services in the late nineteen-thirties. Historical Research, 83(220), pp. 343-357DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2008.00478.x

Corley, J., Crang, J. and Deary, I. (2009) Childhood IQ and in-service mortality in Scottish army personnel during World War II. Intelligence, 37(3), pp. 238-242DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2008.11.003

Crang, J. (2008) 'Come into the Army, Maud': Women, military conscription and the Markham Inquiry. Defence Studies, 8(3), pp. 381-395DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702430802252537

Crang, J. (2008) General de Gaulle under sniper fire in Notre Dame Cathedral, 26 August 1944: Robert Reid's BBC commentary. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 27(3), pp. 391-406DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01439680701443184

Crang, J. (2008) 'We have ceased to be a nation in retreat': The Falklands War 1982. British Politics Review, 3(2), pp. 9-9

Sheffield, G. and Crang, J. (2006) From San Carlos to Stanley: The Falklands land/air operations. International Relations, 20(3), pp. 370-375

Crang, J. (2005) Identifying the 'few': The personalisation of a heroic military elite. War and Society, 24(2), pp. 13-22DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/072924705791602054

Crang, J. (2005) The abolition of compulsory church parades in the British Army. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 56(1), pp. 92-106DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046904001459

Crang, J. (1999) Square pegs and round holes: Other rank selection in the British Army, 1939-45. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 77(312), pp. 293-298

Crang, J. (1997) ABCA and Labour's victory in 1945. British Army Review, 115, pp. 23-28

Crang, J. (1996) Politics on parade: Army education and the 1945 general election. History, 81(262), pp. 215-227

Crang, J. (1995) Welcome to civvy street: The demobilization of the British Armed Forces after the Second World War. The Historian, 46, pp. 18-21

Chapters

Crang J. (2024), Introduction. In: Our People's War: Home Intelligence Report and the Monitoring of British Morale, June 1941-December 1944. Crang, J. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. xi-xxvi 

Crang, J. and Addison, P (2020).  Home intelligence, the Blitz and the British. In: Crang, J. and Addison, P. (eds.) The Spirit of the Blitz: Home Intelligence Reports on British Morale September 1940 to June 1941. Oxford University Press

Crang, J. (2020) Overseas service. In: Crang, J. (ed.) Sisters in Arms: Women in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. Cambridge University Press

Crang, J. (2012) The Second World War. In: Spiers, E., Crang, J. and Strickland, M. (eds.) A Military History of Scotland.Edinburgh University Press, pp. 559-599

Crang, J. and Addison, P. (2011) Introduction. In: Addison, P. and Crang, J. (eds.) Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-September 1940. London: Vintage Publishing, pp. xi-xix

Crang, J. and Douglas, F. (2009) Worship after war: The Gulf service of remembrance and thanksgiving 1991. In: Forrester, D. and Gay, D. (eds.) Worship and Liturgy in Context: Studies and Case Studies in Theology and Practice.SCM Press, pp. 208-216

Crang, J. (2006) Victor Klemperer's Dresden. In: Addison, P. and Crang, J. (eds.) Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden 1945. London: Pimlico, pp. 78-95

Crang, J. (2004) Adam, General Sir Ronald Forbes. In: Harrison, H. (ed.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Oxford University Press, pp. 209-211

Crang, J. (2001) The defence of the Dunkirk perimeter. In: Taylor, B. (ed.) The Battle of France and Flanders 1940: Sixty Years On. Leo Cooper, pp. 73-85

Crang, J. and Addison, P. (2000) A battle of many nations. In: Addison, P. and Crang, J. (eds.) The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain. London: Pimlico, pp. 243-263

Crang, J. (2000) The British Army as a social institution 1939-45. In: Strachan, H. (ed.) The British Army, Manpower and Society: Into the Twenty-First Century. London: Frank Cass, pp. 175-191

Crang, J. (1997) The British soldier on the home front: Army morale reports, 1940-45. In: Calder, P. (ed.) Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939-45. London: Pimlico, pp. 60-74

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