Rowan Thompson is a historian of modern Britain, with research interests in militarism, military culture, and associationalism. He was recently a research fellow on the Society for Educational Studies–funded project University Access and Student Life in the Aftermath of the Great War. From 2020–21, he held the Alan Pearsall Fellowship in Naval and Maritime History at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR). His research has received funding from Northumbria University, the IHR, the Royal Historical Society, the Social History Society, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Society for Nautical Research, the Society for Theatre Research, and the World Ship Society.