Senior Research Fellow in Military History, Course Director for Military History
Dr Stuart Mitchell has over a decade of experience working in military history and specialises in the British Army 1902-1945, as well as the theory and practice of irregular war and counterinsurgency. In addition to his role at The University of Buckingham, he has held the post of Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since 2014 and has worked extensively with all ranks of the British Army. In this position he has also lectured globally to UK partner nations on conventional war, counterinsurgency and counter-terror operations in war. Dr Mitchell has appeared on BBC Countryfile marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day, as well as fronting the British Army’s centennial commemoration video of the Third Battle of Ypres in 2017. He is also a specialist in the Western Front and Normandy battlefields.
His latest book, co-authored with Dr Daniel Whittingham, is titled Counterinsurgency: Theory and Reality and was published in spring 2021. While he has contributed chapters to various volumes covering the First World War and British military operations. His latest chapter can be found in Bean, Flint and Kitchen (eds) Orchestrating Warfighting: A History of the British Army’s Corps and Divisions at War Since 1914 (2024). He was on the editorial team that founded the British Journal of Military History. Although he left his editorial role in 2018 he returned to produce and edit the Michael Howard Special Edition in 2022 alongside Dr James Kitchen. He is currently working on a monograph assessing leadership and learning at the divisional level on the Western Front, 1916-1918.
Dr Mitchell is keen to supervise any project on the British Army’s tactical, operational or strategic performance from 1902-1945. He will also happily consider proposals on counterinsurgency, military theory and international comparative studies of the British, French and German militaries 1914-1945.
Publications
- ‘British Command and Leadership on the Somme: Corps and Divisional Planning and Execution of the Attack on the Leipzig Salient, 3 July 1916’ in Orchestrating Warfighting: A History of the British Army’s Corps and Divisions at War Since 1914, edited with Tim Bean, Edward Flint, and James Kitchen (London: Routledge, 2024)
- Counterinsurgency: Theory and Reality, authored with Daniel Whittingham (Oxford: Casemate, 2021)
- A Military Transformed? Adaptation and Innovation in the British Military 1792-1945, edited with Michael LoCicero and Ross Mahoney (Solihull: Helion, 2014)