New Leverhulme Trust Research Grant - Warnings from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the  Middle East.

Catriona Pennell (History) and Owen Thomas (Politics) have secured a Leverhulme Trust Research Grant (2021-23) for their project, Warnings from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the  Middle East.

This interdisciplinary project encompasses International Relations, History, and Political Science. It is a systematic archive-based comparison of two official inquiries, one hundred years apart, into British military intervention in Iraq: the Mesopotamia Commission (1917) and the Iraq Inquiry (2016). The project will deconstruct these inquiries to understand the contexts, values, cultures and beliefs that have shaped British grand strategy, the lessons learnt and lost from a century of intervention, and the voices heard and unheeded.

We are delighted to welcome Dr Margot Tudor, the Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with the project.