United Kingdom
War, Military and Security

Doctorate:
Toronto (2006)
Masters:
Kings College, London (1992) and UNC-Greensboro (1987)

Projects

• I am currently working on civic militarism and military performance in early modern England, exploring the phenomenon of merchant-soldiers who joined the London and provincial military companies before the outbreak of the English Civil War.

Books

• The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England 1603-1645. Leiden: Brill, 2009.  Full Text (HTML)  

Journal Articles

• “Reappraising the Elizabethan and Early Stuart Soldier: Recent Historiography on Early Modern English Military Culture,” History Compass, 9/1 (2011): 16–33.
• Forsyth, L., Gould, D., Lawrence, D. “History Didactics in the Post Cold War World: Central Asia, the Middle East and China,” The History Teacher, Volume 33, Number 4, August 2000, pp. 1–26.    

Book Chapters

• “The Evolution of the English Drill Manual: Soldiers, Printers and Military Culture in Jacobean England.” In Negotiating The Jacobean Printed Book edited by A. P. Langman, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2011  

Full Text (HTML) Lawrence, D. R. “Great Yarmouth’s Exercise: Urban Militarism and Civic Military Performance in Early Stuart England,” in Worth and Repute: The Play of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by L. Woods and K. Kippen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.  Full Text (HTML)