Jeremy Crang
Jeremy Crang is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at the universities of Stirling, Oxford and Edinburgh.
His main field of research is Britain during the Second World War. He is the author of The British Army and the People’s War, 1939–1945 (MUP, 2000) and Sisters in Arms: Women in the British Armed Forces During the Second World War (CUP, 2020). He is also co-editor (with the late Paul Addison, qv) of The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain (Pimlico, 2000); Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 (Pimlico, 2006); Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain’s Finest Hour, May to September 1940 (Bodley Head, 2010); and The Spirit of the Blitz: Home Intelligence and British Morale, September 1940–June 1941 (OUP, 2020). His most recent book, Our People’s War: Home Intelligence Reports and the Monitoring of British Morale, June 1941–December 1944 (Bloomsbury, 2024) completes a trilogy of edited Home Intelligence volumes.
With Paul Addison, he was a historical consultant for the BAFTA-nominated four-part BBC documentary series Blitz: The Bombs that Changed Britain (Wall to Wall, 2017).
Jeremy is now working on a trade book about the Battle of Britain, telling the story of that conflict and some of its participants through the prism of a single photograph. We Live On Their Wings will be published by OUP.
