Gerard ("Gerry") Oram is a British cultural and social historian, with a particular interest in the First World War.

Life

He was a researcher at the

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and a lecturer the

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, before going on to teach at

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until 2025. He lectures at Swansea University teaching on a number of modules including ''Nazi Occupied Europe'' and ''the First World War''. Oram also lectured at Cardiff University where he taught the ''War, Liberation and Reconstruction: Europe 1939-51'' module. His seminal book, ''Death Sentences passed by military courts of the British Army 1914–1924'', is on the recommended reading lists of the

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and the

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. He is quoted in the British national press on the subject; and he was quoted as a source for an Irish government inquiry into treatment of Irish soldiers.Republic of Ireland: Department of Foreign Affair
Shot at Dawn report
Retrieved: 11 December 2007.

Notes and references

Published works include

* Oram, Gerard, ''Death Sentences passed by military courts of the British Army 1914–1924'', (UK: Francis Boutle Publishers, 1999) * Oram, Gerard, ''Worthless Men: Race, eugenics and the death penalty in the British Army during the First World War'', (UK: Francis Boutle Publishers, 1999) * Oram, Gerard, "The Greatest Efficiency: British and American Military Law 1866–1918" (Chap. 9) ''Comparative Histories of Crime'', B. Godfrey, C. Emsley and G. Dunstall (eds). (Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing. 2002) * Oram, Gerard, ''Conflict and Legality: Policing Mid-Twentieth Century Europe'' (London: Francis Boutle, 2003) *Oram, Gerard, ''Military Executions during World War 1'' (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2003). *Oram, Gerard,‘“The administration of discipline by the English is very rigid”: British Military Law and the Death Penalty (1868–1918)’ in ''Crime, Histoire et Sociétés/Crime, History and Societies'', Vol. 5, No. 1, 2001, pp. 93-110. *Oram, Gerard,‘Pious Perjury: Morale and Discipline in the British Force in Italy 1917-18’ in ''War in History'', Vol. 9, No. 4, 2002, pp. 412–430. *Oram, Gerard, ‘Britain - Post First World War Mutinies and Revolutionary Threats’ in Kelly, J. et al. (eds) ''The International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest'', 12 volumes (Blackwell Publishing, 2009) *Oram, Gerard, ‘Armee, Stat, Büger und Wehrpflicht. Die britische Miltärjustiz bis nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg’ in Peter Pirker/Florian Wenninger (Ed.): Wehrmachtsjustiz. Kontext - Praxis - Nachwirkungen, Wien (Braumüller Verlag, 2011) pp. 186–203. {{DEFAULTSORT:Oram, Gerard Historians of World War I Military discipline and World War I British military writers British historians British military historians Living people Year of birth missing (living people)