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Andrew David Lambert, born on the 31st of December 1956, is a British naval historian who has held the Laughton Professorship of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College London since 2001. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a former Honorary Secretary of the Navy Records Society.
The Laughton Professorship of Naval History is a named chair in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, named for Sir John Knox Laughton, the Victorian scholar whom Lambert regards as the founder of naval history as a professional discipline. Lambert became the Laughton Professor in 2001 and also serves as Director of the Laughton Unit.
On the 1st of May 2014, the Society for Nautical Research awarded Lambert the Anderson Medal for The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812, published by Faber and Faber in 2012.
The Hattendorf Prize is awarded by the United States Naval War College and is one of the most significant honours available to a naval historian. Andrew Lambert received it in December 2024.
Lambert wrote and presented War at Sea, a television series broadcast on the BBC in 2004.
Lambert's work concentrates on the naval and strategic history of the British Empire from the Napoleonic Wars to the First World War, and on the early development of naval historical writing. His research addresses technology, policy-making, deterrence, historiography, crisis management, and regional security.