Our book Quantifying Counterfactual Military History, by Brennen Fagan, Ian Horwood, Niall MacKay, Chris Price and Jamie Wood, will be published by Taylor and Francis (in the ASA-CRC series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society) in September 2023.
Niall MacKay and Jamie Wood talked about our article Bootstrapping the Battle of Britain and counterfactual history more generally on Dan Snow's History Hit.
Our blog is Weighing the Fog of War.
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 projects across our full range of interests, for historians and mathematicians. 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!