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Dr Aimée Fox is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London, serving as Director of Postgraduate Research (DRSC chair). She specializes in twentieth-century warfare, focusing on military innovation and organizational learning in historical and contemporary contexts. Her research explores how armed forces adapt to change, particularly in the British Army during the First World War (c.1899–1923). She holds editorial roles at journals like British Journal for Military History and War in History, and co-edits academic book series with McGill-Queen’s University Press and Brill.
Her research interests include military families in early twentieth-century Commonwealth forces, social and military history of the First World War, and the role of gossip as a form of military knowledge. Key publications include Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918 (2018), winner of the Templer Medal and British Army Military Book of the Year. Recent work addresses historical narratives in UK defence policy and inter-theatre learning challenges in the First World War.
Aimée is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Higher Education Academy. She advises the National Army Museum and serves as a Trustee of the Society for Military History. Her research affiliations include the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War and King’s Contemporary British History research group.
Her academic contributions span book editions, peer-reviewed articles, and collaborative projects on military history. She actively supervises PhD students in historical approaches to military studies and has held fellowships with institutions like the Marine Corps University and Australian War Memorial.
