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  1. Commissioning Official History versus Paying for Official History

    Article • Diplomacy and Statecraft, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  2. Competing Narratives on Economic Warfare: The Unlikely Origin of Archibald Bell’s Unwanted History of the Blockade of Germany

    Article • The International History Review, December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  3. The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the battle for a national strategy

    Article • The Mariner s Mirror, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  4. ‘Mass Anywhere on Sea or Land’: Catholicism and the Royal Navy, 1901–1906

    Article • War in History, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  5. The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How globalized trade led Britain to its worst defeat of the First World War

    Article • The Mariner s Mirror, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  6. Castaways in Question: A story of British naval interrogators from WW1 to denazification

    Article • The Mariner s Mirror, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  7. Great Britain, International Law, and the Evolution of Maritime Strategic Thought, 1856–1914

    Article • The Mariner s Mirror, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  8. ‘The special service squadron of the Royal Marines’: The Royal Navy and organic amphibious warfare capability before 1914

    Article • Journal of Strategic Studies, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  9. Britain and Economic Warfare in German Naval Thinking in the Era of the Great War

    Article • March 2020, JSTOR

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  10. The ‘Lusitania’ Sinking: Eyewitness accounts from survivors

    Article • The Mariner s Mirror, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  11. A long review of some recent titles on early twentieth century naval history.

    Article • War in History, January 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  12. Britain and the Mine, 1900–1915: Culture, strategy and international law

    Article • The Mariner s Mirror, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  13. Entente Cordiale (1904)

    Article • May 2018, Wiley

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  14. A Service Ready for Total War? The State of the Royal Navy in July 1914*

    Article • The English Historical Review, February 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  15. The Royal Navy in the age of austerity, 1919–22: naval and foreign policy under Lloyd George

    Article • Journal for Maritime Research, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  16. Failing to Prepare for the Great War? The Absence of Grand Strategy in British War Planning before 1914

    Article • War in History, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  17. A Great American Scholar of the Royal Navy? The Disputed Legacy of Arthur Marder Revisited

    Article • The International History Review, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  18. Germany’s Ocean Greyhounds and the Royal Navy’s First Battle Cruisers: An Historiographical Problem

    Article • Diplomacy and Statecraft, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  19. Keeping the Germans Out of the Straits: The Five Ottoman Dreadnought Thesis Reconsidered

    Article • War in History, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  20. The Anglo-German Naval Race, 1898–1914

    Article • January 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  21. Naval History by Conspiracy Theory: The British Admiralty before the First World War and the Methodology of Revisionism

    Article • Journal of Strategic Studies, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  22. Admiral Fisher is not who he seems.

    Article • Journal of Strategic Studies, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  23. The Naval Route to the Abyss

    Article • January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  24. A long review of a deeply misleading book.

    Article • Journal of Strategic Studies, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  25. The Grand Fleet, 1914–19: The Royal Navy in the First World War

    Article • The Mariner s Mirror, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  26. A long review of several new naval history books.

    Article • Journal of Strategic Studies, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  27. Militarism in a Global Age: Naval ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I

    Article • The Mariner s Mirror, February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  28. Britain's Great Security Mirage: The Royal Navy and the Franco-Russian Naval Threat, 1898–1906

    Article • Journal of Strategic Studies, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  29. A book examining British plans to protect seaborne trade in the event of a war with Germany.

    Article • May 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  30. A German Preference for a Medium-Range Battle? British Assumptions about German Naval Gunnery, 1914-1915

    Article • War in History, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  31. Bismarck, Otto von (1815-1898)

    Article • November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  32. Fisher, Admiral John Arbuthnot (1841-1920)

    Article • November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  33. Moltke, Field Marshal Helmuth von, the Elder (1800-1891)

    Article • November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  34. Schlieffen, Field Marshal Alfred von (1833-1913)

    Article • November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  35. Tirpitz, Admiral Alfred von (1849-1930)

    Article • November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  36. A prelude to the reforms of Admiral Sir John Fisher: the creation of the Home Fleet, 1902-3

    Article • Historical Research, June 2010, Wiley

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  37. Intelligence Information and the 1909 Naval Scare: The Secret Foundations of a Public Panic

    Article • War in History, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  38. A prelude to the reforms of Admiral Sir John Fisher: the creation of the Home Fleet, 1902-3

    Article • Historical Research, January 2009, Wiley

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  39. Lieutenant-Colonel Delmé-Radcliffe's report on the 1906 eruption of Vesuvius, Italy: Some further comments and some corrections of an historical nature

    Article • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  40. Switching horses: The admiralty's recognition of the threat from Germany, 1900–1905

    Article • The International History Review, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  41. New Weapons for New Targets: Sir John Fisher, the Threat from Germany, and the Building of HMSDreadnoughtand HMSInvincible, 1902–1907

    Article • The International History Review, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  42. Royal Kinship. Anglo-German Family Networks 1815-1918

    Article • January 2008, De Gruyter

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  43. Lieutenant-Colonel Delmé-Radcliffe's report on the 1906 eruption of Vesuvius, Italy

    Article • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, October 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  44. Spies in Uniform

    Article • January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  45. '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

    Article • The English Historical Review, April 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  46. A view from Berlin: Colonel Frederick trench and the development of British perceptions of German aggressive intent, 1906–1910

    Article • Journal of Strategic Studies, June 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  47. Rivalry in Southern Africa, 1893–99

    Article • January 1998, Nature

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  48. Germany and the Origins of the First World War in the Eyes of the American Diplomatic Establishment

    Article • German History, July 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  49. Germany and the Origins of the First World War in the Eyes of the American Diplomatic Establishment

    Article • German History, January 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  50. Maps as the progenitors of territorial disputes: Two examples from nineteenth‐century Southern Africa

    Article • Imago Mundi, January 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  51. The Pfeil Family and the Development of German Colonial Ambitions in Southern Africa: A Study of Diplomacy and Colonial Trends

    Article • German History, February 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann

  52. The Pfeil Family and the Devlopment of German Colonial Ambitions in Southern Africa: A Study of Diplomacy and Colonial Trends

    Article • German History, January 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Matthew S Seligmann