Dr Alan Malpass
Senior Lecturer – Military History
Dr Alan Malpass is a historian who specialises in 20th century military history, particularly civilian internment and prisoners of war. Before joining in 2019, Alan taught at Sheffield Hallam University, where he completed his PhD.
Alan teaches a range of modules across the History and Military History courses. Inspired to study history by playing a lot of board/computer games, Alan incorporates them into his teaching at every opportunity. He is currently playing games which represent POWs and their experiences.
You can find out more about Alan’s research about Italian and German prisoners of war in Lincolnshire here.
Related courses:
- ‘War! What is it Good For?’: the Ethics of Conflict – Historical Perspectives
- Prisoners of War in the Age of Total War
- Simulating War: The Military-Entertainment Complex
- The Civilian in War: The British Home Front during the Second World War
- The Cold War and the Space Age
- The First World War
- War & Society
- Axis Prisoners of War in Lincolnshire
- Civilian internment in India (1939-1947)
- The representation of wartime captivity in digital games
Monographs
2020 - British character and the treatment of German prisoners of war, 1939-48. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48915-1
Monograph Chapters
2023 - Civilian internment in the Raj: Central and family internment camps c.1939-43. In Carr, G. & Pistol R. (eds.) British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War Camps, History and Heritage (pp. 221-238). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350266285.ch-013
Journal Articles
2019 – ‘Disastrous’ and ‘detrimental’: the National Union of Agricultural Workers' complaints against the employment of axis prisoners of war, 1939-1948. History, 104(363), 890–910. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12919
Reviews
2024 – Moore, Bob: Prisoners of War: Europe: 1939–1956 (Oxford University Press, 2022) & Reiss, Matthias, and Brian K. Feltman (eds.) Prisoners of War and Local Women in Europe and the United States, 1914–1956 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). International Journal of Military History and Historiography. https://doi.org/10.1163/24683302-44020001
2024 – Freiburg Letters: an Englishwoman in the Third Reich Writes to her Missing Husband, 1942-1946 ed. by Michael Bassett, Richard Morris and David Stocker. Lincolnshire Past & Present no. 135. https://slha.org.uk/publications/magazine/
2023 – Internment in Switzerland during the first world war by Susan Barton. War in History, 30(3), 341–343. https://doi.org/10.1177/09683445231183773b
2022 – Scheck Raffael: Love Between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II (Review). International Journal of Military History and Historiography. https://doi.org/10.1163/24683302-42010002
2020 – Review of The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II, (review no.2020-065). Michigan War Studies Review.
2018 – Prisoners of War Review Article, (review no.2295). Reviews in History. https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2295
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2024 - Re-educating German POWs: British Policy and Public Initiatives, British Online Archives. https://britishonlinearchives.com/collections/127/contextual-essays/782/re-educating-german-pows-british-policy-and-public-initiatives
2024 - ‘No one wants a Nazi in their family’: a German prisoner of war, a secret affair and the mystery of my dad’s parentage. Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/01/no-one-wants-a-nazi-in-their-family-a-german-prisoner-of-war-a-secret-affair-and-the-mystery-of-my-dads-parentage
‘What happened to German prisoners of war in Britain after Hitler’s defeat’, The Conversation UK. https://theconversation.com/what-happened-to-german-prisoners-of-war-in-britain-after-hitlers-defeat-74859
'Chapter 2’, Gwesty Aduniad (Reunion Hotel) S4C, 2 January 2020. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07ygtvt
Welcomes proposals from PhD students exploring the history of war and warfare, covering topics such as:
- Civilian internment
- Prisoners of war
- The First/Second World War