Professor Jeremy Crang

Jeremy Crang is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at the universities of Stirling, Oxford and Edinburgh.

His main field of research is Britain during the Second World War. He is the author of The British Army and the People’s War, 1939–1945 (MUP, 2000) and Sisters in Arms: Women in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War (CUP, 2020). He is also co-editor (with the late Paul Addison) of The Burning Blue: a New History of the Battle of Britain (Pimlico, 2000); Firestorm: the Bombing of Dresden, 1945 (Pimlico, 2006); Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain’s Finest Hour, May to September 1940 (The Bodley Head, 2010); and The Spirit of the Blitz: Home Intelligence and British Morale, September 1940-June 1941 (OUP, 2020). He is, in addition, co-editor (with Edward Spiers and Matthew Strickland) of the award-winning A Military History of Scotland (EUP, 2012). His most recent book, Our People’s War: Home Intelligence Reports and the Monitoring of British Morale, June 1941-December 1944 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) completes a trilogy of edited Home Intelligence volumes.

He is currently writing a short book about the iconography of a Battle of Britain photograph (for OUP) and a longer book about public attitudes in Britain during the Second World War, which will be the principal focus of his work at Merton.