Dr Sean Lang
senior lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University; author, First World War for Dummies and What History Do We Need?; fellow, Historical Association

Sean Lang is a historian, educationist and playwright who speaks frequently about history and current affairs on radio and television. He has taught in secondary schools and sixth-form colleges and was an education lecturer training history teachers before taking up his current post at Anglia Ruskin University, where he teaches modern British, European and imperial history.

He is also chair of governors at a large primary-school federation. He has played a prominent role in the development of school history-teaching policy, both as honorary secretary of the Historical Association and later as head of the Better History Group.

As well as academic work on British India and on the First World War, he has written works of popular history, including British History for Dummies, and contributed to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill. He is currently working on a collection of essays entitled What History Do We Need?

Follow Sean on Twitter: @sf_lang

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