British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Nicholas Rodger

Professor of Naval History, University of Exeter

Year Elected: 2003

He is the leading authority on British naval history, and has brought the subject into the mainstream of British and international history by relating it to politics, to social change and to economic, technological and cultural develop-ments. He is engaged on a three-volume history of the Navy, of which the first has appeared.