My PhD in History (awarded by the University of Salford in March 2016) examined how the writing and study of British Military History emerged, expanded and diversified between 1854 and 1914. As Military History underpinned understandings of strategy during this time, my thesis gave an account of the development of British strategic thought in this period and how this influenced officer education. My thesis also analysed how the representation of conflict and the British 'Imperial Mission' changed in 'popular' Military History as well as the emergence of 'high-brow' approaches to the subject, which culminated in the creation of the Chichele Chair of Military History at the University of Oxford in 1909.

My research interests were shaped by my BA (hons.) in 'War Studies' and MA in 'War, Media and Society' which I studied at the University of Kent. My studies and postgraduate research have enabled me to act as a 'Module Tutor' on a variety of modules examining international history between 1789 and 2001 at the University of Salford.

I held a Teaching Fellowship in the History of the Warfare at the University of Birmingham between August 2016 and August 2019

I joined the University of Wolverhampton as a Lecturer in War Studies in January 2022.

My research interests include the history of the British Army and Empire during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914) as well as the development of military thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• Royal Historical Society 

• PhD: University of Salford 
• MA: University of Kent 
• Degree: University of Kent 

• Adam Dighton, 'Jomini vs. Clausewitz: Hamley's Operations of War and Military Thought in the British Army, 1866-1933', in War in History (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2020), pp. 179-201.

• Adam Dighton, 'Race, Masculinity and Imperialism: The British Officer and the Egyptian Army', War and Society (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2016), pp. 1-18. 

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