Andrew Abram
Having joined the British Army in 1978 aged sixteen, Dr Andrew Abram served as a regular soldier in various theatres, including the South Atlantic. In 1997 he discovered that he could attend university, graduating with a first-class honours degree in history at the University of Wales, Lampeter three years later. In 2007 he was awarded his doctorate by the same institution, being employed there as a teaching fellow and lecturer in medieval history until 2015. Andrew has subsequently acted as an associate lecturer in history at Manchester Metropolitan University, and historical consultant to museums and local groups. He has researched, written about, and taught on medieval and early-modern warfare, and contributed journal articles and book chapters on related topics. More recently, Dr Abram's research interests in the civil war in Cheshire, the northwest of England and the Welsh borders, as well as seventeenth-century conflicts more generally, continues, and he is the author of books on Sir William Brereton’s army, the 1659 Booth Rebellion, Charles II's army and Tangier, and Dragoons in the British Civil Wars for Helion & Company. Andrew lives with his family in the Peak District, where he enjoys travelling, brewing beer, climbing, hiking, and training for pilgrimages to holy sites.
Books
- Supplying the New Model Army : Logistics, arms, ammunition, clothing, victuals and the matériel of war, 1645-1646 Author
- Dragoons and Dragoon Operations in the British Civil Wars, 1638-1653 Author
- The English Garrison of Tangier : Charles II's Colonial Venture in the Mediterranean, 1661-1684 Author
- For a Parliament Freely Chosen : The Rebellion of Sir George Booth, 1659 Author
- More Like Lions than Men : Sir William Brereton and the Cheshire Army of Parliament, 1642-46 Author