Our book Quantifying Counterfactual Military History is now published with Taylor & Francis.
We hosted the Historical Analysis for Defence and Security Symposium at York in July 2024.
Dr Brennen Fagan
is a mathematical and statistical modeller who did his PhD with YHWAG. He is now a postdoc at York's Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, while maintaining his interests in modelling warfare.
Dr Ian Horwood
is a historian at York St John University. His principal interests are in US military history, airpower history, and the wars in Indochina.
Professor Niall MacKay
is a mathematician and theoretical physicist at the University of York. He has interests in military history, operations research and combat modelling.
Dr Christopher Price
is a historian at York St John University. His main areas of interest are financial, economic and military history in the twentieth century, especially the inter-war period.
Professor A Jamie Wood
is a mathematician and systems biologist at the University of York. He specializes in the simulation and analysis of complex systems, and has interests across a range of modern international history and the analysis of warfare.
We offer PhD and MSc projects across our full range of interests, for historians and mathematicians. Recent theses include those by Brennen Fagan, Peter Lloyd and Adarsh Bura. The only additional qualification needed is sympathy with the other discipline and an interest in the techniques it can bring to the project. If you're interested, get in touch!