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Professor Dan Todman

Professor Dan Todman is Vice-President and Executive Dean (Humanities and Social Sciences) at Queen Mary University of London.

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A portrait picture of Professor Dan TodmanProfessor Dan Todman is a Professor of Modern History at Queen Mary University of London and the Vice-President for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Professor Todman joined Queen Mary in 2003, having acquired a degree at LSE and completed a PhD at Cambridge. He then taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Professor Todman co-edited the best-selling diaries of Britain’s senior soldier of the Second World War, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrook (2001). He has subsequently written three books: he was named The Times Young Academic Author of the Year in 2005 for ‘The Great War: Myth and Memory’ (2005), shortlisted for the Longman History Today Prize in 2017 for his ‘Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-41’ (2016), and won the Templar Medal Book Prize 2020 for his book ‘Britain’s War: A New World, 1942-1947’ (2020).

Professor Todman has worked closely with a number of cultural institutions, including acting as a member of the academic advisory panel for the Imperial War Museum’s re-design of its First and Second World War galleries. He worked with BBC London on the AHRC-BBC collaboration ‘World War One at Home’, including programmes in which Queen Mary undergraduates presented their research into the impact of wartime deaths on the capital.

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