Professor Anthony Heywood

Professor Anthony Heywood
Professor Anthony Heywood
Professor Anthony Heywood

BA (Bristol, 1984), MA (Essex, 1986), PhD (Leeds, 1991), FRHistS

Chair in History

Accepting PhDs

About
Email Address
t.heywood@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272640
Office Address

School of Divinity, History and Philosophy,
Crombie Annexe,
Meston Walk,
King's College,
University of Aberdeen,
Old Aberdeen,
AB24 3FX.
Room: 104

School/Department
School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History

Qualifications

  • BA Modern Languages (Russian with French) 
    1984 - University of Bristol 
  • MA Soviet Government and Politics 
    1986 - University of Essex 
  • PhD Russian Studies 
    1991 - University of Leeds 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Programme coordinator for the Masters programme in Modern History.

External Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Member of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), and of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution. Professor Heywood was the Study Group's Secretary, 1997-2008, and has organised the annual conference on several occasions. For further details about the Study Group, including membership and the annual conference, please see its webpage: www.basees.org.uk/sgrusrev.shtml

Series co-organiser and co-editor of the centennial project "Russia's Great War and Revolution 1914-22" (Slavica Press, 2014- )

Journal Editorial Board member: Revolutionary Russia; Journal of First World War Studies; Europe-Asia Studies

Editorial Board member, AM Digital First World War digitisation project

University representative in the board of Trustees, Robert Nicol Trust

Latest Publications

  • Sideshow?: The Strategic Importance of the Russo-Ottoman Land War, 1914-17

    Heywood, A.
    Military Affairs in Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: Book 4: The First World War. Steinberg, J., Carlson, M., Heywood, A., Marshall, A., McDonald, D. (eds.). Slavica Publishers
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Mismanaging Warfare?: Russian War Planning and the Ambulance Train Crisis of Summer 1914

    Heywood, A.
    Military Affairs in Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: Book 4: The First World War. Steinberg, J., Carlson, M., Heywood, A., Marshall, A., McDonald, D. (eds.). 1 edition. Slavica Publishers
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Modernizatsiia Leninskoi Rossii: Vosstanovlenie ekonomiki, vneshniaia torgovlia i zheleznye dorogi

    Heywood, A. J.
    UMTs ZhDT, Moscow
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Wartime Logistics and the Provisional Government

    Heywood, A.
    The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution. Swain, G., Alston, C., Hickey, M., Kolonitskii, B., Schedewie, F. (eds.). 1 edition. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 55-73
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Climate, Weather, and Tsarist Russia's Great War, 1914-17: The Wartime Winters

    Heywood, A.
    Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-22. Heywood, A., Palmer, S., Lajus, J. (eds.). Slavica Publishers, pp. 283-331
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

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Research

Research Overview

Professor Heywood’s research interests lie mainly in Russian and Soviet history from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. His particular interests are the Russian/Soviet railway system and Russia’s participation in the First World War. He is also interested in inter-Allied relations with special reference to Russia’s foreign procurement policy.

His most recent monograph is a biography of the Russian railway engineer Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876-1952), published with Ashgate (2011). For full details see: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754655398

At present he is working on a major reassessment of the tsarist regime's war effort during 1914-17, focusing on the importance of logistics. This project was started with a 10-week research trip to St Petersburg in autumn 2010 funded by the British Academy and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since then, funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Santander and the University has helped to cover the costs of archive and library research in St Petersburg and Moscow for typically a month each year during 2011-2019. Colleagues at the European University in St Petersburg and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow have been hugely helpful with the organisation of these trips.

Professor Heywood is also co-organising (with Professor John W. Steinberg of Austin Peay State University and Professor David McDonald of the University of Wisconsin at Madison) an international collaborative project to mark the centenary of Russia's participation in World War I and the Russian revolutions. Entitled 'Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal', this project was launched formally in Aberdeen in July 2008 with a symposium funded by the British Academy, the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the University of Aberdeen. A public call for contributions was issued in 2008, with a deadline of February 2012 for submission of draft chapters. The project's books (21 books in 11 volumes) are being published by Slavica Press, with 19 books in print by October 2022. See:

https://slavica.indiana.edu/series/Russia_Great_War_Series

Principal publications (books and edited books):

Russia's Great War and Revolution 1914-1922 , vols 1-4, 5 (books 1-3), 6-10 (Bloomington, IN: Slavica 2014- ) (vol. 11 and vol. 5 book 4 forthcoming 2022-23)

Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876-1952) and the Railways  (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)

(co-edited with Jon Smele)  The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives  (London: Routledge, 2005)

Catalogue of the I.A. Bunin, V.N. Bunina, L.F. Zurov and E.M. Lopatina Collections (Leeds: Leeds University Press, 2000)

Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways  (Cambridge: CUP, 1999)

(with I.D.C. Button)  Soviet Locomotive Types: The Union Legacy  (Malmo: Stenvall, 1995)

 

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in History.


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History

Supervising
Accepting PhDs

Research Specialisms

  • European History
  • History
  • Military History
  • Modern History
  • Russian History

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Collaborations

1.  Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal (with Professor John W. Steinberg, Georgia Southern University, and Professor David McDonald, University of Wisconsin at Madison)

This project was launched formally with a symposium at Aberdeen in July 2008. Funding has been secured from the British Academy, the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, the University of Aberdeen, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A public call for contributions was issued in July 2009. Project roundtable meetings have been held at the annual conferences of the ASEEES (formerly AAASS), Study Group on the Russian Revolution and BASEES, and project editorial meetings have been held in 2009 (Madison, WN) and 2010 (Uppsala, Sweden). A full board meeting to review the submitted chapters was held at Madison in July 2012. The first books were published in 2014, and the last of the 21 planned books is scheduled for publication in 2022/23. 

2. Britain's railways in the First World War

Professor Heywood currently holds an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award for a PhD project jointly supervised with the National Railway Museum about Britain's railways in the First World War. Dr Ben Marsden acts as second supervisor at Aberdeen, and Dr Oliver Betts is the lead supervisor at the National Railway Museum. The dissertation is scheduled for submission by spring 2023.

3.  Digitisation of the Lomonossoff collection of photographic negatives

The Lomonossoff collection at the Leeds Russian Archive, University of Leeds, includes about 6,000 photographic negatives. Approximately 2,000 of these pictures were taken in Russia during 1902-15; the remainder were taken in Soviet Russia, Western Europe and North America between 1917 and about 1950. This project aims to make these images available for public use by identifying, sorting and digitising them. This technical work was funded by a private donor who wishes to remain anonymous, but whose support is gratefully acknowledged here. The negatives were sorted into a logical sequence for copying, and have been digitised. Work is on-going to identify the several hundred as yet unidentified images.

 

Supervision

My current supervision areas are: History.

Professor Heywood is currently co-supervising three PhD students who are scheduled to submit during 2022 or 2023, and one student who started a full-time project in September 2022.

Funding and Grants

Professor Heywood currently holds an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award for a PhD project jointly supervised with the National Railway Museum about Britain's railways in the First World War.

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

  • HI-1022 Europe in the 20th Century
  • HI-2520 Global Empires in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • HI-303T/353T Imperial Russia, 1801-1914
  • HI-304T World War One: International Perspectives
  • HI-4012 Britain and Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1924
  • HI-4512 Dissertation (supervision)
  • HI-5915 Masters Dissertation (course coordinator; supervision)

Non-course Teaching Responsibilities

Personal Tutor

Publications

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  • The Militarization of Civilians in Tsarist Russia's First World War: Railway Staff in the Army Front Zones

    Heywood, A. J.
    Military Affairs in Russia's Great War and Revolution 1914-22, Book 1: Military Experiences. Stoff, L., Heywood, A., Steinberg, J., Kolonitskii, B. (eds.). 1 edition. Slavica Publishers, pp. 327-367, 41 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Imperial Russia's Railways at War, 1914-17: Challenges, Results, Costs, and Legacy

    Heywood, A. J.
    Russia's Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914-22: Book 3 National Disintegration. Read, C., Waldron, P., Lindenmeyr, A. (eds.). Slavica, pp. 65-92, 28 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Imperial Russia's Railways at war, 1914-17: Challenges, results, costs, and legacy

    Heywood, A. J.
    Russia's Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914-22: National Disintegration and Reintegration. Read, C., Waldron, P., Lindenmeyr, A. (eds.). Slavica Publishers, pp. 65-92, 28 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The Turkish Straits, the Great War and the February Revolution

    Heywood, A. J.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • The Logistical Significance of the Turkish Straits, Russo–Ottoman War and Gallipoli Campaign in Imperial Russia’s Great War, 1914–1917

    Heywood, A. J.
    Revolutionary Russia, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 6-34
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A century on, Gallipoli campaign should be more than just a symbol of futility

    Heywood, A.
    The Conversation
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
  • From the series editors

    Heywood, A., McDonald, D. M. L., Steinberg, J. W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts
  • From the series editors

    Heywood, A., McDonald, D. M. L., Steinberg, J. W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts
  • Barriers to East-West Technology Transfer: Iu. V. Lomonosov and Diesel Railroad Engineering in the Interwar Period

    Heywood, A. J.
    The Russian Review, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 440-459
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876-1952) and the Railways

    Heywood, A. J.
    Ashgate, Farnham, United Kingdom. 400 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
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