Martin Watts

Based in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education

Senior Lecturer & Course Director Foundation Year, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education, Canterbury Christ Church University & Senior Lecturer, Modern History, School of Humanities and Educational Studies, 2022
Lecturer, Foundation Year, Faculty of Arts & Humanities Canterbury Christ Church University & Lecturer, Modern History, School of Humanities 2016-17
Associate Lecturer in History, The Open University, AA312 Total War & Social Change, 2009 -2013 (Exam marker 2012). A327 Europe, 1914-1989: war, peace, modernity, 2013 – (Exam marker 2014 to present)
Sessional Lecturer in History CCCU 2009 -2016 Courses written, delivered and examined: British Empire & Total War, Industrial Revolution, Poverty & the Industrial Revolution, Crime & Policing in the Industrial Revolution, Pax Britannica, Modern Britain & Divided by a Common Language (for US students), The Long19th Century – The rise of Prussia, War and the Weimar Republic, American Foreign Policy 1776 – 1975. War on the Front Line: Kent and the two World Wars. Also, Making History (first year skills course), Foundation Programme and supervising final year dissertations.
Principal Research Fellow Centre for Kent History & Heritage (CCCU) 2014 –

Martin's teaching includes the development, writing and delivery of core and optional modules for the Faculty's Foundation Year. In History, Martin teaches regularly at all levels and supervises final year dissertations on a variety of topics, but especially those involving the experience of war. As a Modern Historian Martin has written and delivered modules on both world wars, American foreign policy and the industrial revolution.

Principal Research Fellow Centre for Kent History and Heritage, School of Humanities. Currently working on Whitstable Maritime project in partnership with the Trust. Historical Adviser to National Trust Dover (Lydden Spout Battery project). Historical consultant to Chilham Research Group.

Research Projects

Crime in the British Army during the Great War: Violence, Drunkenness, and Theft. Researcher(s): Mr Peter Burrows. Supervisor(s): Dr Martin Watts, Dr Simon Prince. [Postgraduate Research Project]

Centre for Research in Kent History & Archaeology (CCCU). Communion & Sacrifice: St. Gregory’s War Memorial & The Great War, 29^th November 2014, St. Gregory’s Centre, Canterbury.
Centre for Research in Kent History & Archaeology (CCCU). How the Great War changed Kent. Lectures & Workshops. 23^rd May 2015, Old Sessions House CCCU.
‘Being Human’ – ‘Searching the Past’ talk at Westminster Archives London – 20 November 2015.
Folkestone Book Fair: Talk – ‘Dover and the Great War’ 25 November 2015.
Shepherds Well History Society: Talk – ‘How the Great War changed Kent’ 26 November 2015.
Friends of Canterbury Festival: Talk – ‘Somme – Innocence Lost’. 4^th February 2016.
Smarden Local History Society: Talk – ‘How the Great War changed Kent’ 17^th March 2016.
Whitstable & Sittingbourne Probus Talk ‘Somme – Innocence Lost’. 14^th June 2016.
Centre for Research in Kent History & Archaeology (CCCU). Richborough through the Ages. Conference 25^th June 2016, Old Sessions House CCCU.
BBC Radio Kent – Breakfast Show 1^st July 2016 – remembering the battle of the Somme.
Centre for Kent History and Heritage (CCCU). Baedecker Raid Anniversary public conference 3rd June 2017, Old Sessions House CCCU.
Chatham Historic Dockyard Conference. Key speaker. 'Chatham Dockyard at the heart of industry and seapower.' 24 November 2017.
Shepherds Well History Society: Talk – ‘The Royal Marines’ 26^th April 2018.
Whitstable Probus: Talk ‘The Royal Marines’ 8^thMay 2018.
Appledore Village Society: Talk – ‘The Military Canal and the two World Wars. 10^thMay 2018.
CCCU Public Conference – ‘Maritime Kent’. Paper – ‘ Kent at the heart of the industrial and shipping revolutions’. 22^nd-23^rdJune 2018.
Sheppey History Society: Talk ‘ The Royal Marines’. 8^thAugust 2018.
TV Recording – Channel 4 ‘Britain at Low Tide’ Richborough. August 2018.
Whitstable History Society: Talk ‘Peterloo’. 6^thNovember 2018.
CCCU Armistice Centenary Day (Organiser) : Paper: ‘Armistice, Remembrance & Sacrifice’. 9^thNovember 2018.
Being Human events – Folkestone Leas Cliff – White Feather performance with local 6^thFormers (Historical adviser). November 2018.
Sheppey History Society: Talk ‘ Chatham Dockyard’. 3^rdMay 2019.Chatham Naval Officers Association: Talk 'The Royal Marines' 12th July 2019.

Richborough - The secret port Dr Martin Watts. [Conference or workshop item]
Wannsee and the final solution Dr Martin Watts. [Lecture]
How the Great War changed Kent - Charing & District Local History Society Dr Martin Watts. [Lecture]
The Baedeker Raid on Canterbury Dr Martin Watts. [Lecture]
Richborough the secret port Dr Martin Watts. [Lecture]
Richborough: the secret port Dr Martin Watts, Lyminge Friends. [Lecture]
Richborough: the secret port Dr Martin Watts, Whitstable History Society. [Lecture]
Sheppey and the Poor Law Dr Martin Watts. [Lecture]
Operation Market Garden Dr Martin Watts, Chatham Naval Officers Association. [Lecture]
Richborough: the secret port Dr Martin Watts, Chatham Naval Officers Association. [Speech]
Britain, Zionism, and the Jewish Legion Dr Martin Watts, (23 Oct 2019). [Journal article]
Chatham Dockyard at the heart of industry and sea power Dr Martin Watts, Sheppey History Society. [Lecture]
The Royal Marines and the war at sea 1939-1945 Dr Martin Watts, Chatham Naval Officers Association. [Lecture]
The Royal Marines and the war at sea 1939-45 Dr Martin Watts, Lyminge Friends. [Lecture]
The Royal Marines and the war at sea 1939-45 Dr Martin Watts, The Historical Association (Canterbury Branch). [Lecture]
Armistice, remembrance & sacrifice Dr Martin Watts, 100 years since Armistice. [Lecture]
Kent - at the heart of the industrial and shipping revolutions Dr Martin Watts, Maritime Kent Conference. [Lecture]
Peterloo Dr Martin Watts, Whitstable History Society. [Lecture]
Sheppey Little Theatre - The Royal Marines and the war at sea 1939-45 Dr Martin Watts, Sheppey Little Theatre -The Royal Marines and the War at Sea 1939-45. [Lecture]
The Military Canal and the two world wars Dr Martin Watts, Appledore Village Society - The Military Canal and the Two World Wars. [Lecture]
The Royal Marines and the war at sea 1939-45 Dr Martin Watts, (15 Feb 2018). Stroud, Gloucestershire. [Book]
The Royal Marines and the War at sea 1939-45 Dr Martin Watts, Book Launch -The Royal Marines and the War at Sea 1939-45. [Lecture]
The Royal Marines and the war at sea 1939-45 Dr Martin Watts, Whitstable Probus - The Royal Marines and the War at Sea 1939-45. [Lecture]
The Royal Marines and the war at sea 1939-45 - Shepherds Well History Society Dr Martin Watts, The Royal Marines and the War at Sea 1939-45. [Lecture]
Chatham Dockyard at the heart of industry and sea power Dr Martin Watts, Chatham Historic Dockyard Inaugural Conference. [Lecture]
Report on historical significance of Lydden Spout Battery Dr Martin Watts. [Report]
Richborough - the secret port Dr Martin Watts, CCCU Centre for Regional Kent History & Archaeology: Richborough Through the Ages. [Lecture]
The Somme - innocence lost Dr Martin Watts, Friends of Canterbury Festival - The Somme Innocence Lost. [Lecture]
The Somme - innocence lost Dr Martin Watts, Whitstable & Sittingbourne Probus - The Somme - Innocence Lost. [Lecture]
How the great war changed Kent Dr Martin Watts, How the Great War Changed Kent. [Lecture]
How the Great War changed Kent - Shepherds Well Dr Martin Watts, Shepherds Well History Society - How the Great War Changed Kent. [Lecture]
Searching the past Dr Martin Watts, Being Human Festival. [Lecture]
Brigadier J.O.E Vandeleur Dr Martin Watts, (Sep 2014), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford. [Book chapter]
Communion and sacrifice: St. Gregory's war memorial and the great war Dr Martin Watts, Communion and Sacrifice: St. Gregory's War Memorial and the Great War.. [Lecture]
Canterbury catch club Dr Martin Watts, Canterbury Catch Club. [Lecture]
Maidstone and the First World War: friendly alien recruitment and the military service convention Dr Martin Watts, (2013): Archaeologia Cantiana. [Journal article]
Operation Market Garden - strategic masterstroke or battle of the egos? Dr Martin Watts, (08 Apr 2013): History. [Journal article]
Operation Market Garden Dr Martin Watts, Operation Market Garden. [Lecture]
Anglican 'family resemblance', (1993), Through a Glass Darkly: A Crisis Considered. Leominster, UK. [Book chapter]

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