Overview

I am a historian of the First World War, popular representations of warfare, and public engagement during the First World War centenary.

I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC Project: 'Ephemera and Writing about War in Britain, 1914 to the Present' supervised by Prof Catriona Pennell

Follow me on twitter: @chriskempshall

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Research

I have a range of ongoing research interests within the fields of First World War studies and modern representations of warfare.

I have specifically written and researched on British, French and American experiences of the First World War, the portrayal of conflict in computer games, and the use of history within the Star Wars franchise.

I am currently undertaking research as part of the AHRC Project: 'Ephemera and Writing about War in Britain, 1914 to the Present' into the experiences of marginalised communities during the First World War and the use of ephemera in historical computer games.

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Publications

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| 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |

2022

• Kempshall C, Meyer J, Pöhlmann M. (2022) Life and Death of Soldiers, 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, DOI:10.15463/ie1418.11598.
• Kempshall C. (2022) The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy, Routledge.

2021

• Kempshall C. (2021) 'Authentic Histories' and Racial Insults: Memoirs on African-American Soldiers in the First World War, Multilingual Environments in the Great War, Bloomsbury Academic.
• Horton C, Fry J, Ratcliffe A, Kempshall C. (2021) Star Wars Battles That Changed the Galaxy.

2020

• Kempshall C. (2020) War collaborators: documentary and historical sources in First World War computer games, First World War Studies, volume 10, no. 2-3, pages 225-244, DOI:10.1080/19475020.2020.1774914. [PDF]

2019

• Kempshall C. (2019) Modern warfare: Call of duty, battlefield, and the world wars, Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian, 255-266, DOI:10.4324/9780429345616-16.
• Kempshall C. (2019) Centenary (Computer Games), 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, DOI:10.15463/ie1418.11403. [PDF]
• Kempshall C. (2019) National Memories and the First World War: The Many Sides of Battlefield 1, War Games, Bloomsbury Academic, DOI:10.5040/9781501351181.ch-008. [PDF]
• Kempshall C. (2019) Modern Warfare, Historia Ludens, Routledge, 255-266, DOI:10.4324/9780429345616-16. [PDF]
• Kempshall C. (2019) An Alliance of Competing Identities: Stereotypes and Hierarchies Among Entente Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front, Expeditionary Forces in the First World War, Springer International Publishing, 177-203, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-25030-0_7. [PDF]
• Kempshall C. (2019) Beyond ‘Parade Ground Soldiers’: French Army Assessments of the British in 1918, War & Society, volume 38, no. 4, pages 305-319, DOI:10.1080/07292473.2019.1643494. [PDF]

2018

• Kempshall C. (2018) British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914–1918, Palgrave Macmillan.

2017

• Kempshall C. (2017) The Evolution of First World War Computer Games, The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts, Edinburgh Companion to Literature.

2016

• Kempshall C. (2016) Le Poilu, 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, DOI:10.15463/ie1418.10871. [PDF]

2015

• Kempshall C. (2015) Pixel Lions – the image of the soldier in First World War computer games, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, volume 35, no. 4, pages 656-672, DOI:10.1080/01439685.2015.1096665. [PDF]
• Kempshall C. (2015) The First World War in Computer Games, Palgrave Macmillan UK, DOI:10.1057/9781137491763. [PDF]

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