Dr Andrew Bamford is AMOT’s Museums and Heritage Coordinator. He is a military historian and author, whose research has mostly been on the British Army circa 1740-1815 with a focus on the evolution and functioning of the regimental system. This research became the focus of his first book, which presented the findings of his PhD research. He later went on to test those conclusions with a case-study that looked at the regimental history of the 12th Light Dragoons in the Napoleonic Era, which was produced with the support and assistance of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers Museum and drew heavily on items from their archives. Elsewhere he has written on the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 and Sir Thomas Graham’s 1814 campaign in the Low Countries, and he is currently editing a volume on amphibious warfare in the long eighteenth century.

Before joining AMOT he worked in the academic and publishing sectors, most recently as founding editor of Helion and Company’s ‘From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815’ book series, and has also worked with local regimental museums both as a volunteer researcher and as a freelance contractor on an education project. He is an active member of the Society for Army Historical Research and has served for many years on its Council, most recently as Hon. Secretary. A Yorkshireman by birth, Andrew now lives in Staffordshire with his wife Lucy and their cocker spaniel Luna.