Roger Morriss
Job title
Visiting Lecturer
Department
Greenwich Maritime Institute
Qualifications
BA, PhD
Biography
Greenwich Maritime Institute 1998-present
University of Exeter, Department of History 1997-present
National Maritime Museum 1979-95
School Teacher, 1973-9.
Research/scholarly interests
- Dockyards
- British naval administration
- Naval logistics
- Development of the British state in the 18th-19th centuries.
Selected publications
The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy. Resources, Logistics and the State, 1755-1815 (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850. Public Trust and Government Ideology (Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot)
The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (Leicester University Press, 1983)