Ian D. Armour is a native of Victoria, British Columbia, and completed his BA in History at the University of Victoria in 1974. In 1976 he came to Britain to do his postgraduate studies, and remained in the UK for the next thirty years. He does his MA in International History (1815-1919) at the London School of Economics & Political Studies (1977), and completed a part-time PhD in History at the School of Slavonic & East European Studies [SSEES] in 1994. After teaching part-time at SSEES in 1993-94, he was a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Staffordshire University from 1996 to 2005. After a year’s teaching at SSEES (2005-06), he returned to Canada to take up an appointment teaching European and World History at Ian D. Armour is a native of Victoria, British Columbia, and completed his BA in History at the University of Victoria in 1974. In 1976 he came to Britain to do his postgraduate studies, and remained in the UK for the next thirty years. He does his MA in International History (1815-1919) at the London School of Economics & Political Studies (1977), and completed a part-time PhD in History at the School of Slavonic & East European Studies [SSEES] in 1994. After teaching part-time at SSEES in 1993-94, he was a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Staffordshire University from 1996 to 2005. After a year’s teaching at SSEES (2005-06), he returned to Canada to take up an appointment teaching European and World History at Grant MacEwan Unversity, in Edmonton, Alberta, where he remained until his early retirement in 2014. He returned to the UK that year, and is now settled in north Devon. As an Honorary Fellow at Exeter he is happy to offer a 'sources and skills' course on the Habsburg Monarchy in the Dualist period, and he hopes to make additional contributions in the future. ...more